Microsoft Says There Are No Plans For A 'Halo' Movie

Briefly: The biggest rumor of the week came courtesy of a Production Weekly report saying that Ridley Scott would be producing a big-screen Halo film. Details included that it would exist independently of Steven Spielberg's show set to air on Xbox Live, and that Paul Scheuring (Prison Break) will script.

But Microsoft says it's all bunk. The company released a statement to Eurogamer that reads:

The Halo franchise encompasses many elements, including games, action figures, novels and more. As always, we have many projects in the works that offer us the opportunity to bring in new audiences to the franchise, as we did in the past with Halo Legends and Halo: Forward Unto Dawn. We plan to continue telling the Halo story through innovative channels, but there are no plans for a Halo motion picture at this time.

The notion of Scott and Spielberg going head to head in a producer capacity with material like Halo may have been interesting, even if it didn't seem very likely. Let's hope the show that does air on Xbox Live will be more, say, Battlestar Galactica than a TV expansion such as Agents of SHIELD.