Peter Jackson To Direct Next Halo Game
Buried deep within its Studio Briefing news, the Internet Movie Database has reported that Peter Jackson is going to direct “the next version of [Bungie Studios’] Halo video game.”
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoted Microsoft exec Jeff Bell as describing the project as “interactive entertainment” and adding, “It is not the movie. It is not [the video game] ‘Halo 3.’ ... It is all new content that is going to be developed by Peter Jackson as co-writer, co-producer, along with the team at Bungie, to continue to expand upon the ‘Halo’ franchise and intellectual property.”
(More details after the jump)
Buried deep within its Studio Briefing news, the Internet Movie Database has reported that Peter Jackson is going to direct “the next version of [Bungie Studios’] Halo video game.”
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoted Microsoft exec Jeff Bell as describing the project as “interactive entertainment” and adding, “It is not the movie. It is not [the video game] ‘Halo 3.’ ... It is all new content that is going to be developed by Peter Jackson as co-writer, co-producer, along with the team at Bungie, to continue to expand upon the ‘Halo’ franchise and intellectual property.”
Gee, thanks Jeff, could you possibly have made that quote a little more vague? Have no fear, though, Dear Reader, for a little snooping on Ye Olde Interwebz has revealed some more details:
Jackson’s setting up a video game development firm, Wingnut Interactive Studio, with Fran Walsh (his producer/writing partner/wife) that will create exclusive Xbox 360 titles… including a new entry into the Halo franchise. And, no, they aren’t making Halo Wars: that’s being created by Ensemble Studios.
However, this isn’t Jackson’s first entry into the gaming industry. Last year, he teamed up with Michel Ancel (of Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil fame) to create the celebrated King Kong games for Xbox, GameCube, PS2, and 360 (we’re just gonna pretend the PSP and DS versions didn’t happen, OK?).
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Posted to Video Games on 28 September 2006
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Wait – since when is Peter Jackson thin?
(. . . Am I a horrible, shallow human being?)
He lost a lot of weight when he made King Kong.
Yeah, I was pretty amazed by how scrawny he’s gotten too. He was a total gamer geek fatty there for a while.
Admittedly, I’m totally shallow. :)
He’s back to his Bad Taste* weight.
*His first film. A dirt-cheap gorefest that lives up to the name.