Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

It's called RIGHTS.

The people or company that own the rights to MGS and Halo are cautious about how those dramatic rights are to be exploited. (yes that's the words that they use when talking about rights, I've been working in a contracting capacity for the past 6 months now specifically about rights and territory distribution.) It is all about being able to exploit the rights as best as they can. Blame the rights owners, not "Hollywood". Hollywood is a whore, they'd make anything that they could get their hands on that has enough of a draw to make it worthwhile.