Licensing rights to Halo franchise awarded to Fox

Posted Jun 20, 2007 at 2:09AM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: 20th Century Fox, Microsoft, Todd McFarlane

Will this mean that the once-dropped Halo movie will become reality soon? 20th Century Fox, helped by its licensing relationship with Microsoft, managed to get the licensing rights to the Halo franchise. Fox will be rolling out various Halo merchandise, such as apparel, books, and even collectibles (Spawn's Todd McFarlane will provide Halo 3 figurines).

With the immense popularity of the Halo franchise, Fox believes that they will be able to distribute and sell Halo products up to the release of the fourth Halo game.

There is no mention about the production of a Halo movie, however. There were plans for a Halo movie last year which was supposed to be produced by both Fox and Universal, but was eventually dropped into obscurity.

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Comments

# . — Guest 2007-06-19 23:38

Fox supports Blu-Ray, correct?

So does this mean that the movie will come out on Blu-Ray & not HD-DVD?

Cant Microsoft/Bungie do anything to stop it - like put a clause in the contract - would suck for XBOX HD-DVD owners [we/they are the real HALO fans - not PS3 users]

# First thing I thought too! — Guest 2007-06-20 02:05

HAHAHAHA!

So screwed up!

If you want to see Halo in HD you'll have to buy a Blu ray player (PS3)

HAHAHAHA! That's a good one.

# fourth game?? — Guest 2007-06-20 02:18

in the second paragraph it says the 4th game...??

its the 3rd game.

# ! — Guest 2007-06-20 02:45

Halo Wars [RTS]

# jeez — anonamoose 2007-06-20 05:28

i was about to say Is Halo 3 going to have a bs ending too?

# Hahaha — Guest 2007-06-20 08:17

Yeah sony fanboys you say its on blueray jajajajaj thyere putting it on blueray but microsoft may put region locks to the Ps3 jajajaja i nyour face !!!!!!!!!!

# Poor Microsoft. — Guest 2007-06-20 16:45

Hopefully Microsoft will come up with strategy to advertise the new "HD-DVD." Not to mention the some 1,500 Blockbusters selling ONLY Blu-Ray, and the some 250 selling BOTH Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. It is clear that this is a foreshadow that Sony seemed to have won the format war, and though they won the format war, this doesn't necessarily mean that they won the console war. That is still to come. Though it is most likely PlayStation 3 will win. It is said (QJ in an article a couple weeks ago) only 20% of the Playstation 3's power is being used in games as of now, imagine the power of the PS3 by next month, you will see a steady incline of both graphics and gameplay, not to mention the free online service. Im not trashin Microsoft, but having a head start in the launch does not garentee the win.

# so i guess halo 3 isn't the last one — Guest 2007-06-20 17:23

so i guess halo 3 isn't the last one

# allen u don 't get it — Guest 2007-06-20 17:29

It doesn't matter how much power is being used by the Ps3, that won't determine the winner and i hope everybody realizes that by now. If the console doesn't have any great games then that power won't make a difference. I agree that the head start doesn't garuntee a win but neither does this so called un-tapped power. Also, don't expect any amazing magical power increase in a month because thats not realistic. I own all 3 next gen systems and my 360 gets the most play time right now with my Wii second and my Ps3 dead last. Maybe when Tekken 6 comes out ill blow the dust off of it and decide to plug it in.

# rawr — Guest 2007-06-20 18:02

Meh either way I dont care, I own all three next gen consoles too and I'm dead bored of each one...I'm ready for the next versions of the systems. It'd be nicer if microsoft, sony, nintendo just merged and created one super console so I wouldn't have to worry about halo the movie coming on hd-dvd or blueray and which one I'm going to buy or gta episodic content and stupid things like that.

I'd rather have one big hunky 50lb box next to my t.v and only one proprietary movie format to purchase or rent when I go to store instead of 3 consoles and 2 movies formats.

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