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Nov 11, 2005, 5:42 PM
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Halo Movie Script Preview
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There are rumors swirling about a Halo movie script leakage that gives us a 'preview' of what 'might' be coming. Apparently Alex Garland was paid $1 million bucks to write it, they sold it to Universal and Fox for $5 million bucks plus 10 percent of the gross, and they have both Peter Jackson (really?!) and Fran Walsh to exec produce the movie. A $10 million dollar script – at least. Is the hype true? And of course, is the script going to be a DOom knock off? Well if Peter Jackson is signed up, and he's not stupid, the maybe something is brewing, assuming he signed up. The Halo movie is written for the hardcore fan and for the science fiction movie fan. Like me, you don’t have to be a fan of the game to enjoy this movie. The script is relentless; Master Chief gets in and out of one jam after another.
Act 1:
Halo opens with a series of scorched snapshots. Fragments. As memory. cue the pink dream pages. Intros from the past two games will mimic the movie intro. (Look at all the shiny armour). Remember the drop ships from the intro movie before Halo 2 was released, yea, same thing. Insert token intro fight scene with cool effects and laser beams. Hopefully teh details will do justice to the game..... or will do one better.
Cut from the fight scene and insert token picture of the ring (halo). Insert big cruise ships in outerspace. At this point some type of plot develops (see above regarding dream). I'll let this review from LATINOREVIEW.com take over.
As MC makes his way through a route corridor, a handful of Marines are crouched behind a makeshift barricade, in an intense firefight with the invading Covenant. MC assesses the situation and takes a Sergeant’s assault rifle and two grenades from the Sergeant’s belt clip and steps up to the barricade. Beneath him, a Marine Corporal crouches holding an M6D pistol in hand. The Corporal’s nametag reads JENKINS. MC chucks the two grenades into the shadows. He empties his clip. After the double detonation of the grenades, a GRUNT appears. The foot soldier of the Covenant army. Normally – stocky, broad, and powerful. But this Grunt is dazed and badly wounded. Blue blood is splashing from his torso. MC reaches down and takes the Corporal’s M6D pistol. He glances at the handgun – and sees that the Corporal has customized it. Carved into the metal are the words: NOTHING PERSONAL. MC raises the pistol and puts a single round through the head of the wounded Grunt. The awestuck Jenkins lets MC keep his handgun. MC enters the bridge and reports to Keyes who gets MC up to speed and tells him they’re in the shit. Keyes tells MC that he is going to get Cortana off this ship and keep her safe from the enemy. The Pillar of Autumn is going down and Cortana is not going down with it. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is not an option. If the Covenant captures her, they’ll learn everything. Force deployment, system schematics, weapons research. Not to mention the location of planet Earth.
Meanwhile, on the lower deck Major Silva and the Helljumpers are locked in their own savage firefight. Keyes gives the order over the ship wide intercom to abandon ship and to take lifeboats, drop-ships, any means of escape available. Regroup on the ring. Back on the bridge, MC stands with Keyes who uses his fingerprint to unlock and open a section of the central bridge console. MC takes the Cortana chip and inserts it into a dock in his mjolnir armor – positioned in the back of his neck, the brain stem. MC leaves and makes his way down a narrow service tunnel towards the main corridor to the lifeboats. A covenant soldier stands in his way, an ELITE – tall, armored, athletic, in a sense the alien equivalent of the Spartan. A cobra strike – a classic game move, MC strikes with the butt of his assault rifle, taking out Elite’s shields and empties a clip into the alien’s torso. MC makes it to the Lifeboat with some wounded marines. A female Lieutenant pilots the craft towards Halo. We follow the lifeboat as it enters Halo’s interior curve. We see other lifeboats from the Pillar of Autumn, following the same downward path, like a miniature meteor shower. The lifeboat crashes on Halo and only MC survives. MC steps out and watches the Pillar of Autumn crash land on Halo’s surface. MC hides and watches as some grunts and Blue and Black Elite search for survivors from the lifeboat crash. They see a foot print of MC and go after MC in GHOSTS – lightweight-scouting vehicles, each piloted by a single Elite, armed with two plasma canons. MC pilots one of hijacked ghosts and plasma canons a firefight between surviving Marines from another lifeboat and the Covenant.
End Act 1.
Act 2:
MC talking to the Sergeant and tells him he needs to regroup with the other survivors who must be scattered all over. The Sergeant made contact with a Pelican drop ship pilot who survived, name of Carol Rawley. Call-sign- FOEHAMMER. Apparently, Foehammer and MC go back.
At the crash Pillar of Autumn crash site – the Covenant swarm above it excited and triumphant at the destruction of the enemy vessel. Inside, Captain Keyes and some flight deck crewmembers survived the crash in the bridge. A cluster of Plasma grenades blows the barricade to the bridge apart. The Covenant forces swarm over the destroyed barricade and pour into the bridge. We meet the JACKAL: the slender, hunched, bird-like Covenant. The Jackal advances with its comrades like a roman centurion, firing from and crouching behind the distorting window of an energy shield. They slaughter the survivors and swarm over Captain Keyes.
The survivors of the Pillar of Autumn manage to make a base camp.
MC sustained an injury with his tussle with the Ghost – MC removes the breastplate of his armor. Beneath is a black body suit made of flexible material, and on this body suit, we can see various lacerations around his torso. Through these lacerations, MC’s torso is partially revealed, and we catch our first glimpse of his actual flesh. His skin is colored an abnormal sunless snow-white.
MC dreams again and Cortana appears in her purplish blue light form in the form of a hot chick. MC removes his helmet – his skin is bleached white and his head his shaved to the scalp. The dream is of Planet Reach where one hundred and sixty four men, women, and children died. The Spartans failed to defend it. MC is the last of the Spartan who was airlifted out of there by Foehammer. For the fans that must know, we don’t really ever see MC’s face. Later on in the movie towards the end, on an extreme close-up on MC’s Face we occupy the same space he does, inside his suit. We see a series of flash cuts: his skin, his mouth, and his eyes. The face is marked with a fine mesh of scars, suggesting past injuries, or surgical procedures, or even experiments. His skin is a map of past conflict. To me it appears that MC is albino.
Anyway, at the base camp Major Silva and his boys interrogate a captured Elite. We find out that Keyes let himself be taken alive. The Covenant has him on board their orbiting battle cruiser: Truth and Reconciliation. Cortana finally appears to everybody and tells Silva that they are going in there because it is an opportunity for an AI to access the Covenant computer system. If they could get Cortana to any kind of control panel, they could learn everything about the Covenant – their weaknesses, their plans. It’s the kind of breakthrough that could turn the path of this war.
MC, Major Silva and the Helljumpers manage to sneak onto the loading bay of the Covenant ship Truth and Reconciliation. They run into HUNTERS: Twelve foot tall, six foot wide, covered head to toe in blue armor, a Fuel-Rod canon integrated into the right arm – which glows green as it is charging up to fire – and a shield integrated into its left arm.
The group finds Captain Keyes in one of the torture cells. He is strapped to an intricate machine, organic in design, crackling with energy. From the machine, around his bare arms and torso, are literally thousands of tiny barbed segmented needle–like insect legs. They are buried in his flesh.
The midpoint of the script takes place at base camp where Cortana, holographicly manifested, debriefs Captain Keyes, Major Silva, Master Chief, Foehammer, and a handful of marine officers. Add some side plot items here. Learning about Halo as a weapon. The Covenant refers to a location called “The Silent Cartographer�. It seems to be a map room, which reveals the position of Halo’s control center. Obviously, that control center is the best bet of shutting the system down.
Usually the midpoint act break is where I end my script reviews but to those entire Halo fanatic out there who must know what else happens and what else is in it –
- There is a Beach attack sequence between the Marines and the Covenant. MC pilots the warthog – the multi terrain four-wheel vehicle and we get to see MC driving ability. We see the Grunts use the needlers in this sequence too.
- Inside Halo, the Marines are ambushed by the Stealth Elite who brandish their energy swords and literally cut their enemies in half. Cool sequence.
- Later we see the FLOOD INFECTION FORMS – each the size of a football, bloated, propelled by a seething carpet of small tentacles on the underside on the underside of its main form. We also see the horror and goriness of the Flood infection vessels upon the infected marines and Covenant.
Hardcore fans of the series won’t be disappointed because the ending is
from the game. I won’t say which one though. Wait until 2007 to find
out.
Halo 1&2&3 Moderaaator
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Barry
Mr. Do It All
Dec 5, 2005, 6:08 PM
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Re: [halomod] Halo Movie Script Preview - Director
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ESB's The Movie Reporter reported that director Guillermo Del Toro is in talks to direct the upcoming Halo film. The film will already see The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson as executive producer.
The IESB story suggests that Del Toro is currently in negotiations with
Peter Jackson himself to direct the film. Seeing as Del Toro is
currently engaged in pre-production on a sequel to Hellboy, it remains
to be seen what would happen to that film if Del Toro accepts the
rumored Halo offer.
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