Get a team together. If you can find mo-cap actors and animators and people who can throw scenery together, I can help with the script and do voice acting.
Halo Halo TV Series Thread: This isn't the Red Flag we were hoping for.
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Where is the face-slapping tribble emoji?
The weapons in this series are just awful.
I think that plasma pistol was spray-painted a uniform color of purple, but I can't really remember. I just remember seeing it in the episode and thinking it was an ultra-low-poly 3d render.
I've seen news articles about it -- All the headlines are pretty much MSM and "game reviewers" going full on cope.
The show is shit. It's embarrassingly bad. It's woke to the eyeballs, and people are finally calling out how shit it is openly.
This is going to be a massive money-sink.
The show is shit. It's embarrassingly bad. It's woke to the eyeballs, and people are finally calling out how shit it is openly.
This is going to be a massive money-sink.
SchrodingersWehraboo
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Halo Star Pablo Schreiber Attempts To Reassure Fans Skeptical Of Paramount Plus Series: "This Is A New Experience In A World That You Love So Much” - Bounding Into Comics
Pablo Schreiber attempts a desperate rearguard of the show:
Pablo Schreiber attempts a desperate rearguard of the show:
We definitely sat back and watched something unfold, alright, but it wasn't the World we love so much.
Arlos
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It certainly need creativity to take a story showing Human unity, determination and sacrifices in the face of a cataclysmic threat, and make it about Human division, greed and daddy problem...
*sigh*
SchrodingersWehraboo
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Yeah, what a jarring little sub-plot.
"Aliens are attacking"
"I'll say your Spartans killed everyone because people know how realistic UNSC propaganda is, independence plz."
And this was supposed to be the best out of 200 drafts.
"Aliens are attacking"
"I'll say your Spartans killed everyone because people know how realistic UNSC propaganda is, independence plz."
And this was supposed to be the best out of 200 drafts.
Carrot of Truth
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Back in the day when Combat evolved came out the only shooter with more gore would have been Duke Nukem.
TBF it's not like making trash Kalashnikov guns insurgents would use look and operate in an advanced manner is an easy thing to accomplish on film.
Get wrecked Xenos Scum! This is our Trash Heap!
SchrodingersWehraboo
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This post is made all the more relevant by the fact that Neil Blomkamp was going to direct the original Live-Action Halo movie. And hey, Halo Landfall didn't have to stray from Canon.
That is true.
I mean I think Neil Blomkamp's movies have taken M. Night Shaymalan's drops in quality since District 9 to fucking Chappie, but the aesthetics are definitely solid when it comes to trash heap, space age Independents. Add some bootleg addons to your AKM's and VR visors and cables to your Browning Machine Guns instead of rags and... *laughs* CGI ejected cartridges.
Like you could've just made an AKM with bootleg Halo style holographic optics/HUD or a digital ammo counter or something and it probably would've worked infinitely better.
Blomkamp's problem is that he's got one storytelling trick, and that's "allegories for South African problems".
Visually, I think you could give him any IP that's heavy on ground combat and he'd make it shine.
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Aesthetically District 9 and Elysium were perfect for a Halo film or television series.
That's fine, there's like dozens of Spartans and shittons of UNSC Marines/Navy personnel you could showcase in a cool movie.
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I think the Fall of Reach is the best Halo story for a movie, Or better yet a miniseries.
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There were a few retcons between the original books, Halo: Reach, and the content between 5 and Infinite, but compositing the best of all three into a series would be ace.
Multiple perspectives could be adapted from Red and Blue Teams at Castle Base, the Spartan 3's from Reach, et cetera. At the end, we see Noble 6's sacrifice and a fragment of Coratana being delivered to the Pillar of Autumn, Linda and Jon going into cryo, and Pillar finding Halo (the start of CE).
The golden age of Halo was pretty much the time of CE, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach (at a stretch -- It's pretty divisive). Halo 4 onwards has been a massive letdown, tbh.
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I'd pick Reach because its the best chance to have an ensemble cast and it not be forced, Combat Evolved could work if it was done correctly but it would be difficult to make it accurate to the game since it would be 85% chief going solo with Cortona.
I'm burned out on Reach.
Reach was a pretty good book. But then it was adapted into a video game, and that split the fanbase so hard, you still find the occasional old-timer bitching about it.
So we had a game and a book. But then there was a comic adaption of the Fall of Reach. A comic written by Brian Reed, who would go on to be pretty damn divisive himself.
Then came an animated adaptation, which was pretty lame. And then Ground Command, a pretty cool wargame that could have been set anywhere, but it was set on Reach, and then suddenly it didn't exist anymore.
If Halo is going to have any life breathed into it, it can't keep treading old ground, especially not ground that's been worn into a rut.
Pretty much this. I'd rather have something new, with new characters set in the Human-Covenant War. In fact, set it at the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. So much shit was unceremoniously dropped in the first episode, it was a travesty. You don't need to explain all of this stuff to the audience, but when your introduction of the Covenant is that they're something nobody really cares about, or when your introduction of the High Prophet of Mercy is to have him call upon a girl at her apartment, you're fucking the dog.
Gimme a show that starts in the early war, with a squad of Marines-
Yeah, I'm not interested in a soft fix.
OK, you start with an LRRP squad of Marines rotating back from leave after Operation Trebuchet. Get them ready to fight Innies, and then the news drops.
We lost contact with Harvest.
There's confusion, uncertainty, some jokes about how the Innies must have been starving for corn, until the update hits.
Harvest isn't there anymore.
Aliens burned it to the bedrock.
What follows is stages of realization as it sinks in that aliens are out there, and they want us dead.
So these guys get mobilized and suit up to go to Harvest, where they're some of the first to fight the Covenant on the ground. Treat the Covenant as a mystery. Have them learn things that are gobsmackingly obvious to us, like the fact that the Elites are in charge and have energy shields, or weird stuff like the fact that the Jackals can see right through the UNSC's adaptive camouflage technology, and plain camo is better.
Eventually, as nuclear winter sets in and the UNSC and the Covenant get better at fighting each other, they start escorting scientists into the field to gather information.
But why no Spartans, you ask?
Simple. When the Spartans show up and the LRRP team finds itself working with the Spartans all the time, the fact that the Spartans are child soldiers is a surprise for the audience as well as the characters. This could give us what Halo really lacked for a long time: an outsider's view of the Spartans before they were famous.
You know, if someone wanted to to revisit the universe and ideas from that Kurt Russel movie "Soldier" this badly, I'm pretty sure the rights to that are a lot cheaper than the right to Halo, and no one will really care if the bad guys are using AKs and Chevy.