In this inaugural episode of The Inflection Cut, Eric & Halstead look at the tortured history of Peter Jackson’s never-made film based on the Halo video game franchise. It is a crazy story at various points, including Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Blomkamp, who probably wouldn't have made District 9 without failing to make Halo. The elements leading to the film’s failure to launch are dissected, and a number of possible paths to success are imagined. Who could have brought this film across the finish line, and why would that lead to the streaming wars starting a decade earlier?
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Note that we will not be linking to the leaked script for copyright reasons, but you have Google, right? Just Bing it.