There's a low-budget film being made by a small group of Halo fans called "Operation Chastity". While at first it sounded like it would be complete shit, I read the article and found that they are going far with it. They are constructing a real, working warthog, and the film is going to focus on a small group of UNSC soldiers as they fight the survivors of a crashed Covenant ship. The film's budget is approximately $40,000.


http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2009/03/26/interview-with-pete-cooper-of-operation-chastity/

Sounds great =)

btw lol "small group of Halo fans" and "$40,000"

Yeah, like I said, this is a really low-budget undertaking. That doesn't mean it can't be good though. I mean, watch the whatsinthebox test film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4

That was made for about 700 euros, I think.

*cough*April's Fool*cough*

Even though it was posted on the 26th?

Well..

Yes.
And the company name is Imaginary friends.
It al makes sence!

This looks like it could be really good, I like the warthog idea lol, 40,000$..hrm wonder what they could pull of with that.

I think that they should use some of that money to advertise a donation campaign. They NEED money for this. Really badly. They need to open up donations to the public, that way the hundreds of fans of the Halo series that want to see a movie can help. Perhaps they can set up a system so that if you donate $100 or more, you get an advance copy of the film or something?

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Yeah, like I said, this is a really low-budget undertaking. That doesn't mean it can't be good though. I mean, watch the whatsinthebox test film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4

That was made for about 700 euros, I think.

Thats impressive for how low budget it is.

They will probably have to resort to donations ash, 40grand is definately not enough heh.

No actually I haven't, i'll have to look that up later. Also, what the hell happened with the halo movie that they were making awhile ago? I believe fox was apart of it..not sure though.

Nope, I haven't, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BaVb2TlWb0 watching this one right now

edit, wow, I wasnt expecting that good movies =))

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I think that they should use some of that money to advertise a donation campaign. They NEED money for this. Really badly. They need to open up donations to the public, that way the hundreds of fans of the Halo series that want to see a movie can help. Perhaps they can set up a system so that if you donate $100 or more, you get an advance copy of the film or something?

Don't worry, fans are so hoping for a movie that they will pay anything.
Even if the only thing they get is a name signature on the official website or something.

This looks awesome and is just a overall hypefest to push the idea for a professional studio film. Its probably helping sell the idea since that they said that they were trying to appeal the idea of a Halo Movie when the writer of the script was trying to sell it to all kinds of studios.

And also I think that bungie gave Peter Jackson the "Halo Bible". They said that it was a Halo wikipedia and literally had EVERYTHING to know about the universe of halo.