Electronic Arts has officially confirmed that 'Project LMNO,' its second collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, has been cancelled. The ball began rolling on this confirmation when former EA dev Jake Kazdal, currently at Haunted Temple Studios, mentioned on the 8-4 Play podcast that he had worked on the project for two-and-a-half years before it was shelved. Joystiq then reached out to EA, finally receiving an official confirmation that the project was dead, despite EA maintaining a working relationship with Spielberg.
“I can't say too much. It was very ambitious. We had a small team -- very smart people on it. And we spent a lot of time thinking and talking. And doing some stuff. And it just sort of ... I don't know exactly what was the thing that made it fall apart,” said Kazdal on the podcast.
"I'm sure anybody you ask is gonna tell you something a little bit different, but it didn't end up ever taking off,” he continued. “There was some rival game stuff that may or may not have come out of EA that was basically the same thing minus some of the stuff we were doing. There was just a lot of politics.”
On the bright side, this frees up more of Spielberg’s attention for a possible Halo movie.
