In a press release for the French version of the novel Halo: Cryptum, Halo.fr found a mention of a Halo movie currently in development with Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks. Oh, cool. Wait, what?!
Joystiq points out that this bit from the press release lines up nicely with a report from Vuture that Dreamworks was going to take another route by adapting the books to avoid some of the legal business that held up the game-to-movie adaptation.
To recap: There were Halo film rumors, confirmation (kinda), cancellation and now new rumors from a French press release on Halo books.
You can check out the full press release here.
What do you think? Fake? Misinformed release writer?
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10:15 AM on 10.06.2011 | 
That's the thing, by going by the books, they don't have to use Master Chief, there are so many other characters in the Halo universe they can center it around.
Well, Spielberg is pretty much the head guy at Dreamworks, so it seems like he would more than likely be the producer of the movie.
However, they had to wait until everyone gave into the "Halo sucks" fad? Well if it comes out around the time the remake does that would be alright I guess.
Shame, a Halo movie would work perfectly. Halo is one of those games that's cinematic enough to translate directly into a movie. Uncharted, Metal Gear, Gears of War and a few others would work well I think.
Instead we get movies based off of Wing Commander.
They already made a Metal Gear movie. It was called MGS4.
Just kidding (kind of)