Halo film
The Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp project
Microsoft brought Halo to Hollywood with Jackson and Blomkamp, built test material, and watched the studio partnership collapse before filming.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- detailed preproduction
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A planned live-action Halo feature produced by Peter Jackson and intended to be directed by Neill Blomkamp.
A screenplay circulated, Universal and Fox partnered on financing, Weta developed physical and digital material, and Blomkamp directed live-action tests. The proposed feature never began principal photography.
Existence timeline
Microsoft brings the game property to studios.
Alex Garland's script becomes the basis for studio development.
Neill Blomkamp joins while Weta produces visual tests.
The financing partnership collapses before principal photography.
Related live-action shorts reveal part of the visual approach.
Why it ended
The studio partnership broke down over financing and deal terms in 2006, postponing the film indefinitely until the team moved on.
Last confirmed trace
Concept work, props and the Halo: Landfall shorts preserve the clearest sense of the production's visual direction.
What it left behind
The failed feature introduced Blomkamp to a wider audience and helped lead Jackson to support District 9.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to detailed_preproduction under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.