Halo: Fall Of Reach (Film) Concept Art

I just got back in to NYC after staying in Los Angeles for a week after Comic Con. Yes, I felt that nasty Earthquake. The con and especially the WRATH OF CON PARTY were a blast. I left the con inspired, so I decided to go on a little stealth mission all around L.A. and hit up my sources to see what I can dig up comic book and/or sci-fi related. I got a bunch of goodies for fans this week.

Ok, so Halo…

The HALO movie in it’s current incarnation, the one that we all know publicly about, the one involving FOX/UNIVERSAL, Peter Jackson, Neil Blomkamp, with the script by Garland and rewritten by DB Weiss…

…is completely dead in Hollywood. That project will never happen. Everybody involved has already moved on.

But, then we discovered and broke that screenwriter Stuart Beattie decided to do something about it. He started over fresh and wrote a spec script based on the best selling novel HALO: FALL OF REACH.

Halo: The Fall of Reach is a 2001 science fiction novel by Eric Nylund based on the Halo series of video games and acts as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series. It is set in the fictional Halo universe, taking place in the 26th century across several planets and locations. The novel details the events which led up to the game and explains the origins of the SPARTAN II super soldiers, narrating the story of the series protagonist, the Master Chief.

Stuart Beattie’s script is very real and out there floating around in Hollywood folks. How real? Well, there has been concept art made by conceptual artist Kasra Farahani (WOLF MAN, HANCOCK, SPIDERMAN 3) for certain scenes of the new HALO: FALL OF REACH script as part of an eventual presentation to Microsoft. From what I’m told, the presentation is very cool!

There are some big time professionals in Hollywood who are also Halo fans that want to see the movie made. I scored five pieces of the concept art and will be releasing them on a weekly basis for the next five weeks. From what I know, this particular scene takes place halfway through the proposed script and yes that’s Master Chief in the middle.

From what I’m told, below is the picture of a scene from the Spartan children in training. Fans of the book could probably figure out where this one is from. I do know the Master Chief is in there.

Intel tells me that this is the climax of the movie where Master Chief is fighting to get Cortana off Reach. I think that's "Foehammer" in the Pelican flying towards him. I think it is safe to say the Spartans are totally screwed!

Stuart Beattie’s proposed movie script is based on Halo: The Fall of Reach, a 2001 science fiction novel by Eric Nylund based on the Halo series of video games and acts as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series. It is set in the fictional Halo universe, taking place in the 26th century across several planets and locations. The novel details the events which led up to the game and explains the origins of the SPARTAN II super soldiers, narrating the story of the series protagonist, the Master Chief.

tomvek wrote:

El Mayimbe here…

This piece is the end of the film and where the first HALO game begins.

For the last couple of weeks we brought you artwork for a proposed movie script and hopefully one that will be seen one day. A lot of filmmakers get storyboards, shoot trailers, and also make concept art for scripts they are looking to direct. This being HALO, I figured the fans would get a kick out of it and appreciate the fact that there is a filmmaker out there refusing to give up and see a HALO film come to fruition. We even got the attention of Microsoft so I would say it was a resounding success.

But if HALO fans really want a movie, and trust me, a lot of studios in Hollywood still want to do it…

…it’s all up to MICROSOFT. It’s honestly in their hands. The first time around, Microsoft had such unrealistic demands that not one but two studios ultimately bailed out on them.

No matter what you read, know that it was Microsoft’s fault that the movie never happened the first go around.

Who knows, maybe Microsoft is a little bit more humble this time around and from what I understand, the film based on that book by Nylund might actually be the way to go.

Moderator Sir Geoff wrote:It looks even worse than the game, they need to learn a thing or two from Sony™ how to do FMV.