During a panel last night at the New York Comic Con, transmedia company Starlight Runner -- a business that helps plan cross-media campaigns for various properties, including Microsoft's Halo franchise -- gave a presentation on its work. Among the slides shown, company president and CEO Jeff Gomez previewed one that gave the audience a look at the future of Halo: two new trilogies starting in 2012/2013 with a major motion picture set for release by 2014.

Microsoft and Starlight Runner have yet to issue any official comment on the news, though we have to imagine that Master Chief is rolling in his ... uh ... sleep capsule. Either that, or he's already working on motion capture -- one of the two.

[Thanks Steven!]