Microsoft Studios and Steven Spielberg have reportedly honed in on who they want to direct the pilot for their Halo television series for Xbox , and if the report is accurate it's a filmmaker painfully familiar with trying to bring the beloved video game franchise to cinematic life.

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Latino-Review claims the director selected to helm the pilot is none other than Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9 and Elysium who had been attached to direct the now-defunct feature film version of Halo that Peter Jackson would have produced. Blomkamp said in April while doing press for Elysium that he'd still love to make a Halo movie one day, but bemoaned the lack of creative control. "I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of Halo. If I was given control, I would really like to do that film," Blomkamp confessed. "But that's the problem. When something pre-exists, there's this idea of my own interpretation versus 150 other people involved with the film's interpretation of the same intellectual property. Then the entire filmgoing audience has their interpretation. You can really live up to or fail in their eyes. That part isn't appealing to me, but the original pieces are appealing."Blomkamp is currently directing Chappie , starring Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver, and the voice of Sharlto Copley.Until the Spielberg-produced Halo show finally materializes, the web series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn will remain the closet to a long form live-action Halo project gamers will have.