Yeah, this'll be better than the Spielberg movie with Beattie's script... tbh I'm not at all impressed with Beattie's stuff. I watched GI Joe, and (this might just be the nerd in me) I found it terrible due to the massive amount of movie cliches and BS'd tech/sci in there.
They had icebergs SINKING. And sure there was steel in the ice, but there wasn't near enough to make ice sink.
So i'm not sure I trust Beattie with a scifi-genre movie such as Halo, I think half of GI Joe was just him trying to emulate Star Wars and failing hard.
So, Pete, go kick Hollywood's asses.