Halo 2's Midnight Release Turns Into a Hostage Situation in a New Short Film

A caller abbreviated movie known arsenic Midnight Drop volition crook Halo 2's highly anticipated midnight merchandise into the worst nighttime for a radical of gamers.

The trailer for a abbreviated movie titled Midnight Drop has been circulating online. The film, directed by Ricky Staffieri, follows a radical of excited gamers arsenic they papers the astir breathtaking nighttime of their lives: the midnight motorboat of Halo 2 connected November 9, 2004. However, what should beryllium an electrical nighttime of suiting up arsenic Master Chief and slaying the Covenant turns into a combat for their ain lives. A brace of criminals amusement up and rob the store arsenic it's ringing up customers, yet unraveling into a hostage situation.

This movie takes 1 of the biggest amusement launches of the aboriginal 2000s and uses it arsenic a catalyst for an exceptionally tense situation. As of close now, there's nary steadfast merchandise day for erstwhile audiences volition get to spot it, but it volition beryllium shown astatine the Sound and Fury festival connected August 17 successful Los Angeles. The screening is free, and you tin adjacent RSVP here.

Hopefully, it'll get released connected YouTube, oregon beryllium disposable to ticker for inexpensive connected a streaming work successful the adjacent future. Either way, it's breathtaking to spot a large infinitesimal successful gaming civilization present being utilized arsenic the mounting for immoderate benignant of humanities fiction. The Halo franchise was a ascendant unit successful the gaming manufacture backmost successful the 2000s, but now, not truthful much. The series' estimation has soured a batch since Bungie departed from the franchise successful 2010, with caller releases failing to unafraid the aforesaid staying power.

This caller movie is besides lone imaginable arsenic a effect of carnal media (what a segue). If Halo 2 was a integer release, fans wouldn't person the acquisition of lining up and getting excited astir a crippled to power the communicative of a abbreviated film. Unfortunately, there's thing breathtaking capable astir a integer midnight motorboat to marque a full movie astir it.

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