Neill Blomkamp and Weta are back, this time in true colour:

Still no high res­o­lu­tion HD down­load yet, but at least the colour is fixed. See a slightly higher qual­ity ver­sion here.

The sec­ond live action short film cre­ated by Neill Blomkamp and Weta has been leaked by Gamer­Syde. The colour seems a lit­tle off and it’s not great qual­ity, but it’s the real deal. This time we get to see Warthog’s in action, Banshee’s and Covenant.

Down­load a higher res­o­lu­tion ver­sion here.

Doesn’t it just make you ache for a fea­ture film? Rumors are abound what with the forth­com­ing Halo 3 release, these short sequences and the Fox pub­lish­ing deal that the movie is being devel­oped in secret. As far as I am aware this is not true. We can still hope how­ever and I do believe this film will see the light of day.

In this week’s Bungie update there has been posted a sec­ond full size, fully func­tion­ing Warthog pic­ture. This time with it’s sus­pen­sion raised and with a human, armour clad gun­ner on the turret.

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And this is what they had to say about the upcom­ing Blomkamp short:

“The above image shows just how to scale the Warthog that WETA has been mak­ing is – that’s a real life human man­ning the gun. While there’s still not too much to talk about regard­ing the excel­lent work of Neill Blomkamp, the stu­dio did get a sneak peak of his next short ear­lier this week. It prompted a num­ber of “Wait, was that a…” and “ZOMGz” from the var­i­ous folks around here, and need­less to say, when it sur­faces next, you’re in for a gritty and delight­ful treat.”

Look­ing for­ward to the next live action short. I am sure it will make us all sali­vate a lit­tle more about how great a fea­ture length Halo movie would be.

We have all, by now, seen Neill Blomkamp’s brief E3 trailer which had been made in part­ner­ship with Weta Work­shop. Now we can reveal the full life size replica, fully func­tional Warthog that Weta cre­ated for Blomkamp to use in his shorts. This is a thing of beauty.

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Via Bungie​.net

Many mis­lead­ing reports have been filed about the pur­ported re-firing of the Halo Movie engines. These reports assumed that a Halo GAME and FRANCHISE dis­tri­b­u­tion deal, made by Fox, extended to the movie. This is not the case and NO MOVIE DEVELOPMENT plans have as YET been confirmed.

This deal does how­ever look favourably on the Halo movie process and could ini­ti­ate the future devel­op­ment. Though, as it stands, we are still not mov­ing any­where, our igni­tion is firmly set to off.

In an inter­view with OnFilm, Peter Jack­son says that once Halo 3 hits, with the Halo pub­lic­ity machine run­ning and the hype boil­ing over the Halo Movie will soon see its devel­op­ment woes dis­ap­pear. He is also res­olute that Neill Blomkamp is the man to deliver Halo to the big screen.

“We wouldn’t want to do it with any­one else. It’s Neill’s call.”

For more Peter Jack­son news, The Hob­bit, Lovely Bones, Dam­busters etc, check out Cinematical’s arti­cle.

But I’m sure you guys are all too busy play­ing the Halo 3 beta to read this news post, let alone any links I point you to.