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Aint it Cool interviews Peter Jackson on how the big-budget movie version of Halo is going, and why Alex Garland’s reportedly crappy version is being surgically improved by throwing the script into a room full of one million monkeys armed with typewriters, so to speak.

Highlights:

• “Good films just need good characters, good storyline and a great director to bring it to life and make a film that you’ve never seen before. That’s what it needs. It doesn’t matter a damn whether it’s based on a game, a book or a piece of chewing gum, you know? That’s irrelevant. It’s what actually ends up on the screen that’s important.”
• “…the designs for The Flood that I’ve been seeing are incredibly hardcore, I have to say. The wonderful thing of using the world of CG now and that real, Lovecraftian kind of twisted… That stuff lends itself to computer generated effects so well, the organic, pulsating, throbbing, oozing kind of effect looks great.”

via AINT IT COOL

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