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Alex Garland's scrapped Halo script hits the Internet in PDF form? photo

Back in 2005, 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland took time out of his busy schedule to write a 128-paged script based on some game called Halo. Later, DB Weiss (autho of videogame-themed novel Lucky Wander Boy) stepped in and re-wrote the whole damned thing, and eventually that original project was scrapped. Pity.

This weekend, a user over at 1UP "stumbled" across a torrent that claims to provide Garland's ditched script in PDF form. According to 1UP's Patrick Klepek, the script seems legit, credited to Garland on the first page, and full of Halo mythology references and fancy words like "genetically-refined human flesh and blood." 

While I'm too lazy to find the torrent or PDF myself to verify this information, I'm sure with some clever sleuthing and the right client it shouldn't be too hard to get a hold of. Now get to work, and feel free to e-mail that right on over to us.








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Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 20:35
Bob Muir
Ooo, using med kits. Thrilling cinema in the making.
Neonie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 20:36
Neonie
Interesting
JJ Rage's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 20:44
JJ Rage
DB Weiss wrote a Halo script? WHY WASN'T I INFORMED?!


DAMN YOU INTERNETS!
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 20:48
Clockwork
Alex Garland is a god.
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 20:52
Maurice Tan
Holy shit, the start is the same as the Latino Review script review thank god! I hear this new one looks good ;)
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:00
vexed alex
You know what, everyone? I could go for a nacho cheese gordita.


and like a ghost, I leave the scene....
Scrixx's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:02
Scrixx
Oh my waffles. The Drama. Its intense!
bluemeep's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:03
bluemeep
What a wuss. Doomguy could just stand on a first aid kit to patch himself up.
ZiiG360's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:09
ZiiG360
i want the torrent.
Butmac's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:13
Butmac
RIP AND TEAR
SniperFodder's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:17
SniperFodder
Use scrapetorrent and "halo script" you should get two hits. It's the one a little over three mb. I used uTorrent. I think it's the real deal...

Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:18
Maurice Tan
If you "look" in my previous comment, you may find something :P
Magesx's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:36
Magesx
Words look so stupid on scripts.
SniperFodder's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:41
SniperFodder
But torrents are cool and you don't have to log in...and you get cool, totally legal free stuff.
DigitalD562's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:43
DigitalD562
I've read the first half of the script so far, and its a real bore. With the exception of the first ten pages and a few deeper glimpses in to Master Chiefs past this isn't that spectacular. Whether this was just a first draft or just a quick rush job on the screenwriters part, who knows. I'll finish reading it tomorrow and maybe make a second opinion on it. I just hope this movie gets made and doesn't suck ass.
bmdubya's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:45
bmdubya
Kind of disappoints me. I was hoping the movie would be a prequel to the games. I was hoping they were based on the Halo novels. If you have read The Fall of Reach then you would understand it would make a great movie. Maybe that is why the ditched it. Maybe they wanted the movie to be a prequel to the games, and this obviously isn't.
Chad Concelmo's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:50
Chad Concelmo
That reads like the script to a porn. Amazing.
Racoon's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:56
Racoon
I was thinking the same exact thing Chad, I'm not sure why...
emotaku's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 21:57
emotaku
MASTER CHEIF
I put on my rob and Spartan helmet.
Jark212's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 22:21
Jark212
can't...read...must...wait...
Adamska's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 22:24
Adamska
While the smoke billows out of his battle rifle, Master Chief pulls out a Cherry Coke, takes off his helmet and drinks to his thirst.

Master Chief
I never thought we'd kill all those dinosaurs.
BADInc's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 22:52
BADInc
this is gonna be amazing
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2007 23:33
Sharpless
Pew, you are a saint. That "teen" "boyband" "videoclip" was just what "I" was "looking" for. Thank "you".
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2007 01:12
Aaron Mxy Yost
Does Master Chief win the big dance contest at the end?
invisible universe's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2007 01:47
invisible universe
Just finished reading it and I have to say I really enjoyed it. When Master Chief lost his parents in a car accident and had to move to the inner city with his Uncle, I felt for the guy. I could imagine how hard it must be as the new kid in a school of strangers, trying to get acquainted to your new urban lifestyle. All the kids laughed at his awkward ballet moves at the local nightclub but after he integrated it into his own form of hip-hop, he showed everyone that this Spartan could be just as 'street' as the next guy. Throw in the caring school teacher, Mrs. Cortana, trying to rescue confused kids from a life of crime, and you've got an oscar-winner on your hands.

Really pulls at my heartstrings.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2007 03:50
Justice
Chad is on point!
GnappyAssassin's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2007 05:17
GnappyAssassin
It breaks canon in far too many places for this to hit theatres. I don't mind that it sounds like a porno, I don't mind the chief talking so damn much, but the second they add snow to the maw it goes to far.

When the movie is made, it better be either an expansion on the fall of reach, cause that's the only way I can see it not angering millions of us fanboys.
owenkun's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2007 05:54
owenkun
Feh, Halo's nothing, tell me when I can expect the next Eviscerator game!

Also, did the Halo movie feature the destruction of any Osakan monasteries?
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2007 13:14
Sharpless
Master Chief is the Posh Spice of the group.
Grimspoon's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2007 17:38
Grimspoon
First few lines made me think it was a porno spoof.
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