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Beattie writing Halo movie script!

Posted in: Movie News, Games
By Paul Heath
Apr 1, 2008 - 12:07:29 PM

The folks over at Latino Review have broke a bit of exclusive this April Fool's Day, but they do say that this is not an April fool's joke. The big news is that Stuart Beattie, the guy who has just written the G.I. JOE movie, is pushing ahead and penning a spec script for a HALO movie.



The script will be entitled HALO: FALL OF REACH, and it will be based on the best selling novel of the same name by Eric Nylund. Here's a little of what they posted this morning. For the rest, click it here.

The script is, first and foremost, a character-driven story about a soldier named John who was kidnapped or "conscripted" by the UNSC when he was just six years old, and then brutally trained to become an elite Spartan warrior known as Master Chief 117.
 
The script then takes us through the horrific first contact with the Covenant hordes on the doomed colony world of Harvest, and then climaxes with the spectacular fall of the UNSC forward base on Reach, during which every other Spartan is slaughtered.

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