District 9 director Neill Blomkamp still keen on Halo movie - but only if given contr

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District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is still keen on making a movie based on Halo - but only if given control over it.
Blomkamp, currently out promoting his new movie Elysium, had signed on to direct a Halo movie with Peter Jackson, of The Lord of the Rings fame, producing, but the project collapsed in late 2007 and the film rights returned to Microsoft. Blomkamp went on to make sci-fi movie District 9 instead.
It had been thought that the experience of working on the Halo movie for months before its collapse had put Blomkamp off the idea forever. But he told IGN he'd love to make it - under certain circumstances.
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