Microsoft: 'We still want a Halo movie'

Microsoft has said that it still wants to make a Halo movie.

Speaking at the Future of Television East conference last week, Halo franchise development director Frank O'Connor discussed what happened with the original Peter Jackson project.

"Everyone wanted to do a Halo movie, the director, Microsoft, the highest-placed people at movie companies," he said according to New York Videogame Critics Circle.

"[But] it was the lawyers. When they went behind closed doors with the contracts, things fell apart. The problem was that the movie company couldn’t make any money beyond the movie."

He said that Microsoft is willing to look at several options to bring the franchise to other media, whether it be through different directors or a television series.

"If Danny Boyle wants to make a Danny Boyle-style movie, that’s great. Let Danny Boyle be Danny Boyle. We would not constrain a director," he said.

"We’d love to see Halo as a television series. Look what HBO did with Band of Brothers or even Rome. Something like that would work because the Halo universe is so vast."

He added that "there will be a Halo movie", and that "maybe we'll even fund it ourselves".