{"id":11883,"date":"2010-08-26T10:04:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2012-04-26T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:13:16","slug":"next-generation-casting-and-a-halo-reach-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/next-generation-casting-and-a-halo-reach-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation casting and a Halo Reach short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First up, we have this little gem of an internal memo, released several years ago on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sliceofscifi.com\/2006\/11\/01\/the-memo-that-never-was\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slice Of Sci-Fi <\/a>but only just picked up by other outlets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7pqmdW7Zd1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11884\" title=\"tumblr_l7pqmdW7Zd1qzpwi0o1_500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7pqmdW7Zd1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7pqmdW7Zd1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7pqmdW7Zd1qzpwi0o1_500-300x396.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what do you think? Would you have preferred to see Tim Russ as Geordi, or Reggie Jackson\/Kevin Peter Hall\/WESLEY SNIPES for that matter? How about Yaphet Kotto for Picard or Mark Lyndsey Chapman for Data? Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next up, the Halo Reach advertising engine marches boldly on with another of their infamous live action shorts, this time taking a softer approach to the downfall of the titular colony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"331\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dp9Zan5BpFk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have to say that I&#8217;ve loved every live action Halo release, from Neill Blomkamp&#8217;s famous Landfall feature through to the Birth Of A Spartan featurette and the ODST shorts. It&#8217;s all great stuff, and I&#8217;m perpetually staggered why studios wouldn&#8217;t think that this would clean up at the box office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting bits from around the internet today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[1661,96,1155],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}