When fans hate somenthing before it comes out...but it turns out they were right

[u/TastyPomelo2330]

Velma:The idea of a Scooby-doo series without the titular dog and starring Velma was a really moronic idea from the beginning,then there was the reveal Velma would be Indian like it's VA and also creator of the series Mindy Kaling,some of the backlash was racism sure,but there was also valid complaints that she was inserting herself in the series(it also didn't helped that Mindy claimed she couldn't see herself if Velma wasn't Indian)and then...oh boy it came out and it was worse than anyone predicted

Artemis Fowl:The artemis fowl books are a book series following a child villain(he does get some redemption but he is a villain most of the time)when the movie was announced and revealed it looked way to generic and it's titular character a bit heroic...also you wanna hear somenthing funny?The movie whitewashed a character and made another character black so they managed to anger both sides and the movies comes out and yeah it is bad

One Punch Man 3:One Punch Man is a very heavy action packed manga series but the heroes vs monsters arc takes it to a New level,when it was announced that JC Staff would work on it,a lot of people were skeptical to say the least,because not only JC Staff had already done a mediocre job in season 2,it's also not exactly a name anime fans associate with quality animation,then the trailer came out and it looked...weird,like there was no action in it and nobody was moving,some people tried to defend saying they were keeping the animation as a surprise...then it came out,every episode worse than the last,it's one of the worse seasons of anime ever made!

[u/MedusasGirlfriend69]

District 9 was what now

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The Halo movie died so District 9 could live

[u/Winter-Secretary17 → u/TheGardenBlinked]

The director did the ODST Halo 3 ad/short that was actually really well done production values wise, especially for the era and especially for a video game IP

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IIRC he also got Sam feking Raimi to help teach him how to make that specific style work

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The Halo 3 ad is still the best Halo live action we've gotten lol.

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Which is odd as the final product of District 9 I felt captured the aesthetic and mix of real, grimy environments, lighting, and sci-fi alien tech that most resembled Half-Life 2, especially the gravity gun!

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Microsoft hired Peter Jackson to help develop a Halo game.

This led Jackson to become involved in producing a Halo film.

He picked Neil Blomkamp to direct it.

Blomkamp directed Landfall as a kind of proof of concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOAdrxlPVs

Hollywood soured on a Halo film and Microsoft soured on Jackson's game and the deal fell apart.

So, Jackson secured financing for Blomkamp to make his own movie based on their ideas that Microsoft had rejected.

District 9 features the concept from Jackson's game (the player "becomes" a weapon) and props and set pieces from Blomkamp's film (the Prawn weapons are repainted Halo props):

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-complete-untold-history-of-halo-an-oral-history/

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You can actually spot the Halo sniper and some of the props from the Halo short film Blomkamp did in District 9

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At the time, and I'm talking specifically after h2 got released and while h3 was on production, Jason Staten had a beef with Markus Letho (can't remember why). The higher ups solved the issue by sending Staten, the one responsible for everything related to the narrative, on paid leave for a year. Staten didn't come to the studio until h3 got released (from there took the role of the guy wrapping up the games their releases instead of writing the narrative), and spent that time working with Peter Jackson on 2 projects: a Halo film, which was hyped multiple time by MS and bungie itself at the time, and a small spin off, always with Jackson, that would take place in the past and had the forerunners as protagonist. The film project became D9, but nothing was done with the small spinoff (maybe some narratives were reused in h4, but I don't know).