Halo-based Movie: Microsoft Signs a Deal

While this is not a review, console announcement or other news that would be more expected on a gaming-related blog, I thought it would still be of interest: who else than gamers would be more interested to know about such a movie if it’s indeed to come? Sure, there have been many catastrophes in that regard in the past, and movies based on games may not seem like the best thing in the world. Nevertheless… here it is:

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. […] has signed a deal with two film studios to make a movie based on its popular space-based video game series “Halo,” a spokesman for Universal Pictures said on Wednesday.

Universal and Twentieth Century Fox agreed to pay Microsoft $5 million plus a percentage of ticket sales. The total price being paid is capped at 10 percent of the domestic box office.

The deal ends months of speculation over which studio would win the right to make a “Halo” film, which came to Hollywood last spring highly-touted by Microsoft and its representatives at Creative Artists Agency. Messengers delivered a script to the studios wearing costumes and toting laser guns.

The rest of the article is available here on Reuters – Technology news articles. Whether this is good or bad news (when it comes to the movie’s quality) is of course still unknown at this point. The rumor than perhaps a Halo 3 game could tag along the movie, though, may be more itneresting.