On the cover of the 2nd Halo book, Halo:The Flood, in the top left corner of the picture there is a face and i think that that face is actually Captain Keyes after he is taken over by the Flood. Please tell me if you think so too!
With apologies to Gilbert, Sullivan, and HunterX11 who started it.
We are the very model of a modern Halo IRC,
We've information Forerunner, Covenant and UNSC,
We know the prophet hierarchs and quote the drama ILB,
Play Marathon and Halo, too, sometimes even on XBC.
We're very well acquainted, too, with ICQ and IMDB,
About rampant speculation extremely skeptical are we,
With many useless facts about the status of the great journey.
I have one simple question. (Or statement if you will...)
How come in Halo: CE cortana reads into the covenant battle net and tells us that the covenant discovered that Halo was some sort of weapon.
THis was crazy, beacause if they knew it was a weapon then why would they believe in the great journey>?
I have a few theories for this.
1. Cortana already knew Halo was a weapon and she didn't actualy hear talk of that on the battle net.
In the wake of rumors that the Halo movie will be pushed back from its rumored 2007 release date due to its rumored lack of a director and rumored delay of the rumored principal photography that was rumored to have taken place somewhere in New Zealand about now, but allegedly hasn't, several readers suggested I write something on how I thought the Halo movie ought to be done.
To a certain extent, to do so is a little unfair and perhaps counterproductive. Any idea for the film, if expressed in enough detail, would be indistinguishable from an unsolicited script thrown into a studio slush pile. Either it'll just be ignored (as most probably deserve to be) or it would be read. Having been read, if any ideas actually got into the movie, it could form the basis for complaints on the part of the author that the studio used them without compensation.
Or, worse still, a random coincidence between any idea in such a script and the film itself might be used as a basis for such a complaint. So, in a way, writing too much about cool things you'd like to see in the movie almost guarantees those things won't be, especially if it's something new and unique and interesting, rather than just something you've already seen in the games or read in the books.
Besides, the only fair way to do that would be to pen a complete script; and if I was capable of writing a good Halo movie script that would be a critical and commercial success I think there'd have been more of an indication of it before now.
However, what I will do is take some cues from the games, the books, the rumored script by Alex Garland, which I have previously spent time dissecting, and do something that's not allowed at the Movie Cynics Database at HBO. I'll write a simple list of things I think the Halo movie Should or Should Not do and explain why.
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The Video Games Live website now has a trailer up to show the "fun, energy, interactivity and excitement of the show". It's availble in WMV (hires) and MOV (lores) formats.
Marty O'Donnell has posted that he's going to the Play! concert this Saturday in Chicago. Anybody else going?
UrsusArctos is using his Rampancy.net blog to wonder about what might be in store for fans in Halo 3, as well as look at the use of artifacts like Arks and the Marathon logo in the Haloverse.
Frankie has taken advantage of the gap between seasons 4 and 5 of Red vs Blue to interview Burnie, much like the Greeks exploited the Trojans' weakness for equine statuary. Within, a plot to eliminate the show's best character is revealed!
At the end of the last season, it looked like we might be getting a new cast member. Can you tell us if you have plans to introduce any other new cast members?
Although they aren't, technically speaking, Halo story canon, the thematic and verbal similarities between the recent Halo 3 trailer and the Cortana Letters from 1999 have resparked interest in the latter; TraxusIV has embarked on an ongoing series of analytical articles that look at those themes and put the Letters into the greater context of the Bungieverse, past and present. The newest article looks at the second letter.
A Halo 1 2vs2 tournament followed by a
an Halo 2 2vs2
June 10th
$10 a person for each tournament
Big payouts
Timed rounds, everyone will start at certain rounds
Free For All for the Halo 1 competition starting at 11 am
http://dom.redz31.com/halo.html
has all the information you need-
Gametypes
Sign up
Teams Confirmed
General Rules
Location
Lots of fun.
This is just an idea that I came up with when I was re-reading the Halo3 articles and looking at the E3 pictures. Since the covenant are religious and all i thought that i should relate the bible to the Halo3 announcement trailer and the other Halo games.
Halo = Bible
This webcam image, spotted by serpx and posted by Louis Wu at HBO, seems to support the mention of Mister Chief t-shirts in a Bungie Weekly Update a few weeks ago.
IGN has a nice five-page piece about the interplay between science fiction and fantasy literature and video games. Halo gets a couple of mentions, not surprisingly, most of which fall on page five: