[LAEM] With the Halo movie out of the picture...

[zeaven]

[url]http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/20/game-over-for-halo-movie/[/url]

We all know that Peter Jackson and WETA are supposedly all tied up in this Halo movie, but now that it's not being made... what does this bode for Live Action Evangelion?

What do you think? Am I completely off-base here?

[Kaysow]

Let's see them come up with another excuse to postpone it now.

[BobBQ]

Jackson and WETA are still working on the Halo movie, even though Fux and Universal have run away.

Sounds to me like they couldn't stomach the idea of Bungie retaining creative control and not allowing them to turn it into another Starship Troopers.

[Hexon.Arq]

It's not out of the way. It's just homeless.

[BLACKANGEL32076]

Keep in mind, if the Halo movie is hold, so could everything else be including Eva.

[The Eva Monkey]

Keep in mind, if the Halo movie is hold, so could everything else be including Eva.

Not necessarily. Though Weta has produced its own films, namely LotR and Kong, it exists primarily as a service provider. Matt Greenfield described the period of limbo as simply waiting for one of the potential directors to have an opening, and begin the process of producing the film. Should that happen, Weta's aspirations to work on the film will come into play. If the director/producers choose to bring them into the production, they may provided they're available. However, if they aren't, they may choose not to halt and find another studio to provide production efforts. However, if the director/producers of Eva live action are willing to wait for Weta to become available, they may choose to take their time with the development in order to have them on board. But should Eva live action come into the picture, and Halo still isn't quite in play yet, we could very well see Halo postponed as a result. Weta is afterall a buisness, and they have a large infrastructure and employee base to busy, which is part of why Halo being postponed and Eva taking so long is a potentially bad thing. They need another major project to consume the whole of their operations. Kong was pretty big, but they haven't had something fitting of the scope of their buisness since LotR, and either Halo or Eva could be that sort of project.

[BLACKANGEL32076]

Very true EvaMonkey. At this point, only time will tell. I've just become too cynical at this point to have any hope until I see a finished product. Until then...