Over a year after the plug was pulled on the Halo film project that Peter Jackson was set to produce, new hope has been breathed into a potential franchise based on the best-selling video game.

According to Latino Review, Australian screenwriter Stuart Beattie (Collateral, 30 Days of Night, Australia) has written a new Halo script based on Eric Nylund’s first book tie-in, the prequel Halo: The Fall of Reach. The new project is apparently set up as a trilogy to coincide with the three X-Box titles. Beattie also wrote the screenplay for the upcoming G.I. Joe film and the Gears of War video game adaptation.

The site’s source writes: “The script is, first and foremost, a character-driven story about a soldier named John who was kidnapped or “conscripted” by the UNSC when he was just six years old, and then brutally trained to become an elite Spartan warrior known as Master Chief 117. The script then takes us through the horrific first contact with the Covenant hordes on the doomed colony world of Harvest, and then climaxes with the spectacular fall of the UNSC forward base on Reach, during which every other Spartan is slaughtered.”

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