Peter Jackson is quickly turning in my director’s eqivolent of Russell Crowe. I think Crowe is one of the best damn actors… not only working today… but of all time. However, I also think the man is a total jack ass and I have very little respect for him off camera. Peter Jackson is an uber talented director whoes movies I will continue to rush out to see (even the let down King Kong)… but I have pretty much lost all respect for the dude I had. To me, he’s pretty much proved himself to be a lying weasel who uses and manipulates his fan base as mindless pawns to carry out his private battles in public. But I won’t go into all that now…
Recently, Jackson decided to talk about his totally botched Halo project with Stuff.Co.Uk
Jackson said he expected renewed interest from Hollywood studios 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures to have Halo made as the Halo 3 video game will be released later this year. He and partner Fran Walsh would be involved again in Halo only if Blomkamp is the director. “We wouldn’t want to do it with anybody else. It’ll be Neill’s call.”
Now, first let me say that I do agree with Jackson that Halo will get made eventually. Maybe even sooner rather than later. I’ve always believed that and I still do.
However… I don’t beleive this movie will ever get made with Neill “I’ve never even served coffee on set of a real movie let alone direct one” Blomkamp as the director. I don’t see any studio investing $200 million in a movie with a guy directing it who has NEVER WORKED ON ANY FEATURE FILM IN ANY CAPACITY IN HIS LIFE.
And if Jackson wants to walk off the project (who the fuck cares if he does??? He’s just a tolken producer) unless he gets his formerly fat ass way… then fuck him… let him walk. Heaven forbid Jackson back off on the Blomkamp demands and show his leigions of fans he’s not a god.
As a side note… did any of you see taht Blomkamp short film with Lynda Carter in it? The one with the Temp robot worker? Oh god that was a horrible piece of shit. Look it up if you get a chance. The whole stupid movie is a 20 minute build up to one mild chuckle of a punch line at the end.
