When the proposed HALO film adaptation was dropped by District 9’s Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson in 2006, it seemed that all hope was lost. Then we all got to see Blomkamp’s DISTRICT 9 and saw some of what could have been. Now, thanks to Frank O’Connor, former content editor for Bungie Studios and current creative director for Microsoft’s 343 Industries… we have a ray of hope!

O’Connor said,

“We’re going to make a movie when the time is right. We own the IP. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically. We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff, toys, apparel, music and publishing. If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic.”

[Source] IGN