10 Incredible Sci-Fi Movies That Were Almost Made

9. Halo - The Only Decent Videogame Adaptation?

It's arguable that when "Halo" was released for Xbox waaay back in 2001 Bungee re-ignited the first person shooter with the same zeal and flair that Valve had managed to achieve some years earlier with Half-Life. It was a game whose world, characters, story and gameplay resonated in such a resounding manner with gamers and with such an evocatively cinematic flair that Hollywood would of course come sniffing around its cash rich udders with all the inevitability of the tides. And sure enough 2004 saw the announcement that Master Chiefs on-going battle with the Covenant would be given the silver screen treatment via the guiding production hand of none other than Peter "King of New Zealand" Jackson. Naturally, the assumption was that he'd also be directing it. This proved to be false however with the grand reveal of his protégé, South African film maker Neill Blomkamp Here's where things get interesting. In 2007, Blomkamp was responsible for three short, live action films set in the Halo universe as a means of promoting the release of Halo 3. The series collectively referred to as Landfall gave a glimpse into a realistic and utterly plausible cinematic landscape that a Halo story could take place within. Immediate comparisons screamed something like Saving Private Ryan in space. Understandably, folks immediately got all shades of excited, with many a fan-boy muttering about how this could potentially be "the video game movie that proves video game movies don't have to suck" (for the record, Crank and Crank 2 have proven that a video game to movie adaptation can work only so long as the video game being adapted doesn't actually exist). This excitement was pretty short lived however following the one two sucker punch of budgetary collapse and all studios involved pulling out entirely, leaving Halo's movie future to languish in developmental limbo. Jackson eventually re-focused his producing efforts towards Blomkamp's first feature length film. A pithy little number called "District 9"; which, as it so turned out, was pretty darn awesome. Close a window, open a door etc etc.