apparently what made this successful was the failure of the Halo movie at the time. They were able to use some high quality props and material which helped really create a quality film for a fraction of a hollywood production
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Was the Halo movie that Peter Jackson was gonna produce and Blomkamp direct? I remember that he gave him budget for a movie because he felt bad and said to do whatever he wants
yeah basically, if you see Peter Jackson's name comes up first and props look very Halo-ish - look at the guns for instance. But that's a small part of the bigger project tbh, the movie is really good overall