And the Halo director is...

Yes, the rumours can final🌳ly be put to rest. Peter Jackson is most definitely not directing the Halo movie. And neither is Uwe Boll.

Now that you’ve breathed a huge sigh of relief over that second one, perhaps you’d care to meet the man who is directing the movie? Chosen by Jackson and Fran Wa𓃲lsh – who are producing the Halo adaptation – that man is Neill Blomkamp.

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Yet most people will probably know him for the Citroen C4 ad, in which one of the cars transforms into a dancing robot. Thanks to the magic of YouTube, anyone who hasn’t caught it can se it here . Oh, and he was nominated for an Emmy for visual effec🤪ts work on James Cameron’s Dark A𝐆ngel TV show.

He’ll shoot Halo – which will take its story from the game’s plot of a group of surviving human soldiers taking on a powerful alien race – in New Zealand, making use of Jackson’s studio set up and Weta’s talents. Jackson's release states: "As a gaming fan, I'm excited to bring Halo's premise, action and settings to the screen with all the specificity and reality today's technology can provide. Fran and I are intrigued by the unique challenges this project offers, and we're delighted to be working again with our friends at Universal, and with our new ones at Fox and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft. With Neill on board, I'm even more excited by the potentia🃏l of this project."

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