XBOX announces digital Halo feature and a new pilot from Stoopid Buddy

According to Deadline.com, XBOX Entertainment has announced a full slate of new projects in development, one a full length feature ”digital” film and the previously announced pilot coming from Stoopid Buddy Stoodies.

Halo” digital feature

343 Industries and Scott Free Productions are creating a “Halo” digital feature to be released later this year. The project will be executive produced by Ridley Scott and Scott Free TV President, David Zucker. Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (“Battlestar Galactica,” “Pillars of the Earth,” “Heroes”) will direct.

Extraordinary Believers

Xbox Entertainment Studios is developing an innovative, hybrid stop-motion show dubbed “Extraordinary Believers” (working title) with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, creators of the Emmy-Award winning “Robot Chicken,” the longest running stop-motion show on television. The executive producers on the project are Seth Green, Matt Senreich, and creators/writers/executive producers are Eric Towner and John Harvatine IV.

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios continues to spread its wings in 2014, as the company is continuing to produce content that isn’t just the stop-motion stuff the company is known for with Robot Chicken so says Deadline:

XBox Entertainment Studios also has teamed with Seth Green and Matt Senreich, creators of stop-animation series Robot Chicken, for Extraordinary Believers, a hybrid stop-motion/live-action improv series, which is filming a pilot.

I think the producers of Robot Chicken have been wanting to do a project like this for a while, as last year at the Adult Swim Upfronts the producers had initially announced a live-action/stop-mo take on Team Unicorn which then officially turned stop motion according to executive producer Clare Grant. However, I don’t think this means a full series pickup starting in June as previously reported, it looks like we MAY get a pilot by then, but a full blown series might still be a ways off.