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Microsoft and Jackson pair up for Game |
Peter Jackson is parterning with Microsoft to make the next Halo game.
Microsoft announced that it is partnering with King Kong director Peter Jackson and his writing partner, Fran Walsh, to create the next Halo video game and a second as-yet- Peter Jacksonundetermined game. Jackson and Walsh, who are producing an upcoming movie based on the Halo game franchise, will work with Bungie Studios on the next Halo title.
Jackson and Walsh are also collaborating with Microsoft Game Studios to create Wingnut Interactive, which is described as a world-class  Peter Jacksonundetermined game. Jackson and Walsh, who are producing an upcoming movie based on the Halo game franchise, will work with Bungie Studios on the next Halo title.
Jackson and Walsh are also collaborating with Microsoft Game Studios to create Wingnut Interactive, which is described as a world-class interactive entertainment studio. Wingnut will combine the strength of Microsoft's technology and interactive entertainment experience
with the creative and imaginative excellence of the Wingnut Interactive team.
"Microsoft has built an amazing living canvas with Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, which allows the storytellers of our time to express themselves in a new medium. They have fundamentally changed how people think about games," Jackson said in a statement. "My vision, together with Microsoft Game Studios, is to push the boundaries of game development and the future of interactive entertainment. From a moviemaker's point of view, it is clear to me that the Xbox 360 platform is the stage where storytellers can work their craft in the same way they do today with movies and books, but taking it further with interactivity."
The Halo movie will be directed by Neill Blomkamp, under the Wingnut Films banner, for Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox. In related news, Microsoft Game Studios has announced Halo Wars, an all-new real-time strategy game based on the Halo universe, created exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires). Halo Wars places the player in command of human URNS armies as they deploy for mankind's first deadly encounter with the enemy Covenant forces. |
