GAME MOVIE RUMORS ABOUND!

2 Game to movie rumors have been making the rounds this week, so I figured we’d just add to the growing pile of speculation. The first rumor concerns the casting of Master Chief in the upcoming Halo film.

According to the rumor mill, Denzel Washington met with Peter Jackson to discuss taking the lead in the film. After much ‘net travel, Denzel put the rumor to rest by stating that he met with Jackson to discuss Jackson handling the special effects for a film Washington plans on directing. In other words, nope no Denzel for Halo. Personally, I’m pulling for Steve Downes to get the role – at least as far as MC’s voice goes. From what I’ve read of the supposedly leaked script to the movie, it’s not like we ever get to see Master Chief’s face anyway.

The second rumor is that Tim Burton has expressed interest in making a film based on Grim Fandango. This one apparently got it’s start on a site called The Movie Center where they patched together several different quotes from Burton to form an interview, and one of those quotes indicated that he was interested in making Grim Fandango into a movie. While most of the comments have now been tracked back to their original sources, no one has been able to verify where the Grim Fandango comments came from. File this one under probably fake for now.

Check out a good summary Gamespot put together here and think about who you’d like to see play Master Chief in the Halo movie. Got a good one? why not post it in the comments for this article – even if it’s a horrible idea, we won’t laugh at you… much.