$1 million was paid by Microsoft to write a movie about the video game story of Halo. Microsoft sold the script to Universal for $10 million dollars. Now what? Where are the trailers, release dates, screenshots, whats taking so long?
In summary, the movie almost happened. Dang! I wish it went though. But, after the amazing Halo: Reach that made $200 million dollars, interest in a Halo movie is back. Sources tell us that Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks is the studio that wants to make it. But it won't be the movie you expect.
Spielberg wants to make the Halo novels into a film. Microsoft is concerned about a movie stepping on the toes of future Halo games, and thus adapting one or more of the novels seems like a shrewd move. But there's a bigger reason that Dreamworks is eying the novels, one that takes a bit of explanation.
The road towards a Halo movie has been traveled down before. Movie studios Fox and Universal partnered on a Halo movie five years ago, and ultimately walked away after sinking $12 million dollars into developing the project.