LotR masterminds Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh announce they’ll be executive producing the film version of Halo, with WETA in charge of the FX. “‘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,’ said Jackson.” Halo? I dunno…even as just a production credit, I think it’s a bizarre choice for Wingnut Films, particularly as a follow-up to the Rings trilogy and Kong.
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She’s De-Lovely.
The LotR team — PJ, Fran, and Phillipa — have announced their first post-Kong project and, as rumored, it’ll be The Lovely Bones. Judging a book by its cover blurb, the story — about a murdered 14-year old girl watching her killer from Heaven — sounds Oprah-esque and precious to me (and not in the Gollum sense.) But then again, I haven’t read it. If nothing else, the project does seem ripe for some Heavenly Creatures-like FX throughout.