Shortly after the supercut circulated, Jason Jones gave the studio a new edict: They needed to reboot the story. It was time to start over. Staten’s story was too linear, Jones said, and too similar to Halo. Starting now, Jones told the studio, they were going to rewrite Destiny’s story from scratch. Joe Staten, Marty O’Donnell, and others at Bungie pushed back, telling Jones that there was no feasible way to reboot the story this late in production.
