The Canceled 'Halo' Movie Was Mayhem Behind The Scenes

What fans didn’t know was that they almost got to see all of that on the big screen. Landfall was originally slated to be a full-length Halo movie directed by Neill Blomkamp. At the time Neill Blomkamp had gained some following for Yellow and Alive in Joburg, but this would have been his first big-budget action movie, and he was stoked for it since he was a big Halo fan himself.

Microsoft knew how to pick ’em, too, and hired Alex Garland to adapt the Halo movie for the screen. The writer of 28 Days Later was a big get for a movie that had already attracted the attention of Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson. Between Blomkamp’s direction and Garland’s scripts, the project seemed like it couldn’t fail. His script got some rewrites from D.B. Weiss, who would later become a showrunner for Game of Thrones. (Maybe don’t let him touch up the end of the scripts, though.)

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Halo itself involves a war with three sides- humans, the Covenant, and the Flood- and ironically the movie was being torn apart by a similarly three-sided feud. Between Microsoft, Universal and Fox, there was no way to please every company that had staked millions on the movie. 

Their mindless destruction makes Fox the Flood, so Universal must be the Covenant.

The Canceled 'Halo' Movie Was Mayhem Behind The Scenes
Source: Pinoy Daily News