Halo is easily one of the biggest franchises today. The latest installment, Halo 3, still has millions of people playing, despite being two years old. Why is that? No seriously, I'm asking because I thought Halo 3 to be mediocre. But, despite my opinions, its clear a LOT of people love this game. And, when you have something so popular in the gaming universe, you make a movie. Well, at least until it looks like its going to cost an arm and a leg to produce, then you cancel it on the spot.
Despite the original film's cancellation, Stuart Beattie (GI Joe: Rise of Cobra) wrote a script entitled Halo: The Fall of Reach. Last year Latino Review read the script, and stated:
Ooh, sounds exciting. Too bad it will never happen right? Well, it looks like that may no longer be true, as Steven Spielberg is rumored to be in negotiations to direct this film. With recent studio issues, and Spielberg looking for his first big film under his new Dreamworks umbrella, this seems to be the perfect fit. Plus, Peter Jackson could still produce the film. Spielberg and Jackson on the film? How could this go wrong? Besides, Spielberg won't have to even worry about angering fans with random plot twists since aliens are already in the Halo universe. Zing!"The script is, first and foremost, a character-driven story about a soldier named John who was kidnapped or “conscripted” by the UNSC when he was just six years old, and then brutally trained to become an elite Spartan warrior known as Master Chief 117.
The script then takes us through the horrific first contact with the Covenant hordes on the doomed colony world of Harvest, and then climaxes with the spectacular fall of the UNSC forward base on Reach, during which every other Spartan is slaughtered."
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