First 8 minutes of Halo 3 movie: ALL CREDITS INCLUDED RELEASE DATE: 2012 DIRECTOR: Neil Blomkamp MPAA RATING: USA:R WRITER: Alex Garland (original screenplay) STATUS: In production (no its not cancelled) PLOT: After they crash-land on an artificial ring-world called “Halo”, a navy captain, his surviving marines, and a chemically-and-surgically-enhanced supersoldier named John-117 “Master Chief” must find out what the Covenant, the genocidal alien race they are at war with, are looking for on the ring. However, Halo holds more secrets than either side imagined. TRIVIA: ‘Alex Garland’ was paid $1 million by Microsoft to write an adaptation of the popular game. Microsoft then sold the script to Universal for $10 million. A rumor was started that Alex Garland’s script had been dropped, and that DB Weiss had replaced him as the screenwriter, but Weiss confirmed in an interview on Gamesetwatch.com that he was only revising Garland’s script. Producer Peter Jackson asked Guillermo del Toro to helm the movie, but del Toro turned the offer down so he could direct Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).