Why does the trailer for District 9 make some want a Halo movie?
Once upon a time, Peter Jackson was hired by Universal and Fox to oversee Halo, the film version of Microsoft’s killer military/sci-fi videogame. Exhausted from shooting the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, Jackson opted to executive produce. The man he wanted to direct Halo was Neill Blomkamp, who had nary a feature credit to his name but had shot a stunning short called Alive in Joburg, about aliens living a segregated life in South Africa. Halo eventually fell apart: the stated reason was that the budget had spiraled out of control, but underneath that was the fact that no one wanted to spend ungodly sums of money on a Halo movie that Jackson himself didn’t direct. No one wanted to be in the Neill Blomkamp business. Something tells me that District 9 might change some minds.
