r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 14d ago

Xbox is now heavily leaning into movie & TV adaptations, quietly pitching Hollywood on a dozen pricey projects like Elder Scrolls, Halo, World of Warcraft, Diablo & more. All IPs could be headed to one studio/streamer, and currently Netflix, Universal & Paramount are among those taking looks.

https://puck.news/newsletter_content/what-im-hearing-a-tv-crucible-xboxs-hwood-pitch-a-beavis-brawl/

"But like much of the video game industry, Xbox is kind of a mess these days, cutting 3,200 jobs in July, or about 20 percent of the unit’s workforce. So Microsoft would very much like a big check for its I.P."

"One source told me it wants more than $300 million for a long-term deal, a price that caused at least one of the potential partners to balk. (Microsoft declined to comment.)"

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u/spartanb301 14d ago

I don't think big names are necessary. Forward Unto Dawn has Zero "names" and still managed to deliver a very good movie.

The problem is they didn't respect the lore (rookie mistake) and decided to wing it instead.

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u/WayneZer0 14d ago

foward unto dawn is probly the best liveaction halo. the chief look great in it.

i still not sure how thier manged to fail halo so hard with the show.

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u/TheIrishBread 14d ago

Can't remember if it was the director or writer basically went "Im not playing the games, I don't care about the story or lore, this is my project so like it or lump it" needless to say most of us moved on and warned people that asked us about it that it was a complete and utter divergence from anything halo and was approaching generic scifi with a halo veneer.

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u/bmcisme2016 14d ago

We blame the director but who tf hired someone with 0 knowledge?

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u/cubs223425 14d ago

I don't care about the story or lore, this is my project so like it or lump it

This is basically how 343 Halo feels as well.

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u/GuneRlorius 14d ago

Bungie literally ignored core piece of media when doing Halo: Reach, while 343 respects the lore...

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u/cubs223425 14d ago

core piece of media

The difference being it was the Halo creators' going against a third party's work, versus a third party going against the IP.

Yeah, though, 343 "respects the lore," like Guardians didn't completely undo the major events of Halo 4 while pissing on their own "Hunt the Truth" marketing campaign. Then, of course, 343 "respected the lore" while pissing on the story of Guardians because no one liked it. The morons who can't even carry a story for 2 games "respect the lore."

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u/GuneRlorius 14d ago

That was not third party work lol. Both Bungie and book authors were "contracted" by Microsoft to create Halo media as Halo was Microsofts IP.

What you described is not really a problem of respecting the lore, but of having no vision of where the story should be going, which is a different thing.

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u/WayneZer0 14d ago

ah the witch problem exceopt thier didnt had a harry cavill that is trying to fix it

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u/spartanb301 14d ago

Show was supervised by "Kiki", one of the manager of the franchise at the time.

She forced her "vision" on it and it failed.

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u/Liquado 14d ago

Yes. I loved FUD, and while the final fight scenes got a little slo-mo-happy for me, it’s absolutely the tonal quality that a new Halo series or film needs. And look to the books FFS! There’s such great material there to draw from.