'Halo' movie 'will still happen'

Halo chief Frank O'Connor has claimed that a movie version of the hit video game series will eventually be made.

O'Connor, who is the development director at Microsoft's 343 Industries, revealed at San Francisco's MI6 Conference that the Halo team is still thinking about a feature adaptation of the first-person shooter.

"We're going to make a movie when the time is right," IGN quotes him as saying. "We own the IP. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically.

"We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff; toys, apparel, music and publishing. If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic."

A Halo film had previously been in the works with District 9's Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp involved. The project was cancelled in 2006 after costs began to spiral.