Blomkamp to direct Halo movie

It's just been announced this week that incredibly cool indie verite sci-fi director, Neil Blomkamp (about whom I've blogged about before) will be directing the Halo movie. Here's an interview with Blomkamp on Ain't it Cool News. With the combination of him, Peter Jackson executive producing, Weta Workshop doing the effects, and, of course, the Halo team's record of really creative projects like ilovebees, this may actually be a big budget action movie I could get excited about...