Jackson: Halo Movie Death for the Best

The Halo movie will have to be placed with yet another director as both Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp won't be touching it. In fact, they are both happy that it didn't happen.

Speaking about the flick, while introducing their new move District 9 at ComicCon, Jackson stated that 'studio politics' killed Halo - the Movie.

While this maybe bad news for Halo fans, it turned out wonderfully for Jackson and Blomkamp. Says the Kiwi Hobbit king, "We woke up in the morning thinking we were making Halo and went to bed that night making District 9. But it worked out for the best as far as I'm concerned."

For his part, Blomkamp is sticking by what he said in 2007. Back then he noted that "Right now, I can't see myself doing that film. But I'm not going to say that I'm not going to do it. So in the present moment, right now, I could take it or leave it. It doesn't matter to me anymore. There's too much interesting shit out there. The film has the capacity, if things line up correctly, to be, I think, really cool. But it ended up collapsing, and things happen for a reason."

Right now he's saying to Slashfilm, "I probably wouldn’t do Halo if it was offered to me. But creatively, I would like to do it. It’s kind of like I’d be sad to not work on it, but I would still say no."

However, he does agree with Jackson that the death of Halo was only good news for him: "I worked on it for five months…I put a lot of sort of sweat and blood into Halo. Creatively, it’s very compelling. I love it. But, when you work that long on something and you have it bottom out and collapse… I mean, I got District 9 out of it, I think I’m probably better off because it’s more of a personal film. But yeah, I love the world of Halo. I don’t think I would go back there."

So, he might or he might not or he might or... time to call Sam Raimi once he gets World of Warcraft: the Movie finished.