A few hours ago, Microsoft released a live-action ad -- a short film, really -- for Halo: ODST. It boils down the life of an ODST in the Halo universe in 90 seconds, and, as you’ll see below the fold, it isn’t a pretty one.
The director of the film is Rupert Sanders, the same guy who did the Halo 3 ad spot “Believe,” which, if memory serves me, faired well with the Internet crowd. I don’t expect this ad spot to do any worse, certainly. This thing is fascinating.
If this ad dazzled you, do look forward to more. According to official release, a two minute and 30 second version will debut on Spike TV this September 7th at 10:30 PM ET/PT. It’ll be the first time I turn on my TV to see a commercial.
Got to hand it to MS: They know what they're doing when they market Halo games, which is saying something considering the games barely need more than a 30 second commercial with some gameplay footage to sell millions of copies.
These commercials get me pumped to play that shit, and I think this actually sealed the deal for me. I think I'm gonna buy this instead of rent it now.
Now to see if I change my mind in the next 2 weeks or so.
Between this and District 9 I think there's enough proof this movie would have rocked that the studios should be kicking themselves over not making it happen.
I doubt even the biggest Halo hater would hate on this. That commercial was just made of awesome. Honestly, it baffles me why the movie was never made. This makes me want to play the game right now.
@AnEvilBrowny: No thank you to michael bay directing this. I do enjoy his special effects but hes not needed here. The guy that directed this needs to team up with Neil Blomkamp (District 9 and the Halo: Landfall short) to make this movie happen.
Why hate halo? Because its a good successful game series with millions of fans all over the world? I honestly never understood why theres such hatred for the Halo francise.
Anyway, this trailer was made of pure unadultorated win...
The reason why there is no halo movie is because, over all, the world of halo is not all that complex and a good story would not come from it. The movie would look pretty and that is about it. This recipe works for a game because games were not born from story's, they were born from gameplay. Movies on the other hand had a large focus on the story that was being portrayed on the screen. We can look past the fact that Halo 3 had no story that was even worth mentioning, and still say it was a decent game. Now if we take away the gameplay aspect of Halo, would it still be a good game?No F$&*ing way. It would be there with aquaman as the worst game ever. SO I think the halo movie would not be able to make based on lack of good content. Resident Evil had a bunch to work with and look how Hollywood messed that up. They would probably make halo a love story anyway staring Leonaldo Decaprio and Reece Witherspoon. But it would look pretty....
Ok lets say the story is deeper. What is stopping Hollywood from really messing it up? Nothing. I used resident evil as an example. Hollywood took a perfectly good story and raped it. If the story is soooo deep to halo then they should put that in the game. And make it a great game as opposed to an Ok game. So if they did make a Halo movie it would it be a movie based on a book or a game? Cause everyone knows how good "book to movie" operations work out. Next if they made the movie who would have a deep enough character to make a good protagonist, and please don't say Master Chief, had enough of Robo-Cop had more of a personality.
I've never really been all that much of a Halo fan (the games are cool, whatever) but I would so watch a movie done like that. I would watch that movie hard.
Holy fuck, that was damn impressive. It made me want to buy that game- then I remembered it's Halo, and quickly remembered why I'm not. Seriously though, fuck, that video was great.
I cannot think of one move in the video game industry that has proven to be stupider than Fox's decision not to green light the Halo film. Seriously, between District 9 and the live-action ads, this should've been a fantastic idea.
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9:30 PM on 09.04.2009
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Got to hand it to MS: They know what they're doing when they market Halo games, which is saying something considering the games barely need more than a 30 second commercial with some gameplay footage to sell millions of copies.
These commercials get me pumped to play that shit, and I think this actually sealed the deal for me. I think I'm gonna buy this instead of rent it now.
Now to see if I change my mind in the next 2 weeks or so.
Hope they don't fuck it up for me somehow.
After seeing that, I'd actually pay money to go an see a live action movie based on ODSTs...with a cameo or two from a SPARTAN.
That was seriously Epic.
O______O
It was like Starship troopers but cooler.
But this clip...
OMFG.
Why hate halo? Because its a good successful game series with millions of fans all over the world? I honestly never understood why theres such hatred for the Halo francise.
Anyway, this trailer was made of pure unadultorated win...
Respect. This was great.
@Morbid Demise: Read the books. The whole story is much, much deeper than most people think.
This is exactly why 1.) I love Halo, and 2.) A Halo movie, if done correctly would be absolutely gorgeous.