By Lisa Baertlein 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Oscar-winning creative team behind the "The Lord of the Rings" films, including director Peter Jackson, has been named to run the production of the upcoming film based on Microsoft Corp.'s blockbuster "Halo" video game, the company said on Tuesday.

Jackson and his wife, Fran Walsh, will serve as the executive producers for "Halo," which is targeted for worldwide release in mid-2007 by Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox film studios.

Universal will oversee the film's production and domestic distribution. Fox will handle international distribution.

"Halo" will be shot in Wellington, New Zealand, and will use Jackson's production and post-production facilities there.

"I'm a huge fan of the game and look forward to helping it come alive on the cinema screen," Jackson said in a statement.

The executive producers will collaborate with Universal, Fox and Microsoft's Bungie Studios, which created the game.

"Halo," the best-selling franchise for Microsoft's Xbox game console, follows the adventures of the futuristic super-soldier "Master Chief" as he battles an alien onslaught.

Screenwriter and novelist Alex Garland wrote the original feature film adaptation of Halo. A director will be named in coming weeks, but the cast has yet to be announced.
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I don't know about making games into movies. It is not possible to actaully capture all the things you can do in a game and translate it to the big screen. A game that I always thought would make a great movie scrip wise was Metal Gear Solid but I doubt you could actaully recreate all the charaters and the back story in 2 hours + or - 30 minutes.

Halo had a long story and I don't think you do the game any justice by just having like having a fight on 2 places instead of many levels of the game that made it such a classic.

I recently saw the preview for Doom which was a great game but it lookis like they just tunred the movie into a clusterf*ck.

I'm just filled with glee at the possibility that the company I work for might be able to finagle a way to make a Halo game based on the movie and screw it to Microsoft.
:D

Hopefully the movie will be better then the game.

Dr.