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You know, this is the reason why people actually go to Uwe Boll to make Videogame movies: sure, the movies he makes are absolute crap, but his director's fee is down to the level of a B-Movie producer.
Put it this way: Hollywood people think in terms of money soonest. If a director says he's going to make a hit game into a movie but he needs a bajillion dollars to do it, the studios will tell him to go screw himself. But if a director says he only needs ten bucks to make a hit video game into a movie, they'll shell out the money. Studios usually assume "Hell, even if it's a crap movie, videogamers are stupid enough to watch this shit, so at least we'll make tons of money!"
I don't know if Peter Jackson really needs that big a budget to work with Halo, but at this rate, it'd better be an absolute box-office success.
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