Are Microsoft, and Peter Jackson as producer, still wedded to Neil Blomkamp as director?
That was one of the problems that the financiers had. That was one of the rumors. It’s a lot more complicated than that. But Neil Blomkamp is still working really closely with Peter Jackson. Honestly, I’d be really curious to see what Neil Blomkamp — if you’ve seen any of his shorts — what he could do with the physicality of the Master Chief. Seeing the Master Chief in video games is one thing; he’s running around with guns and rocket launchers. I’d like to see him taking out some trucks bare-handed, clambering across rooftops, leaping from building to building, in a way that you can only really do in a movie. You can take such artistic liberties with the gameplay elements, that I think Neil Blomkamp would be able to do something fantastic but I literally don’t know if he would be the director who made the movie eventually. I have no idea. He’s certainly an interesting choice, a unique choice. As a director, he certainly speaks to the militaristic, realistic sort of anachronstic almo
