Following closely on the heels of yesterday's prognostications in Variety about the Halo motion picture project, none other than Bungie's own scriptwriter extraordinaire, Joe Staten, penned part of a piece to try and calm the nerves of Halo fans everywhere, and give them every possible assurance that Bungie is engaged and enthusiastic about this project-- about Alex Garland's script and about the attitude of producer Peter Schlessel.

Bungie's Community Team, along with Microsoft, has produced for the project an expanded version of the Halo Bible (of which the page on Grunts can be seen in Joe's story).

I'll mark the words of HBO's Louis Wu on this one: don't give up being skeptical, but if it is at all possible to make fans cautiously optimistic about the film's prospects, this article will do it.