For those of you holding out for a feature film adaptation of Microsoft’s Xbox phenomenon will have to hold your breath for a lot longer as the one-time attached director Neill Blomkamp told Creativity that the film is “entirely dead”. Check out the complete quote below:
The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It’s not so much me as the entire vessel sank. Basically, it was a combination of; there were two studios involved that weren’t getting along in the process of making it, Universal and Fox. That kind of stuff happens, it’s a fragile industry. So the film collapsed at the end of last year, and it’s been dead, ever since then. I’ll be curious to see what happens.
Considering how many films are made, how many of them cost a lot of money and how many of them are terrible I find it hard to believe that this film really can’t get made. Especially considering the fact that the recent “Halo 3” made close to $342 gabagadillion in its first week of sales. Even if you screw it up, the built in audience will pay for the production costs and the DVD will still most likely sell like gang busters.
Hollywood is a weird place. Read the complete interview here.
