Showtime has ordered x episodes of the serial that was announced inwards 2013.
The Halo cinema that was bandied almost a decade or together with thus agone is dead together with buried, but the live-action boob tube serial that was announced inwards 2013 is lastly shaping upwardly to live a real, actual matter that y'all volition someday live able to watch. Showtime announced today via the Xbox Wire that it has ordered x episodes for the series' starting fourth dimension season.
Kyle Killen, creator of the Awake boob tube series, volition serve every bit executive producer, writer, together with showrunner, piece Rise of the Planet of the Apes managing director Rupert Wyatt is signed to straight multiple episodes.
“Halo is our most ambitious serial ever," Showtime CEO David Nevins said. "In the history of television, at that topographic point only has never been plenty corking scientific discipline fiction. Kyle Killen’s scripts are thrilling, expansive together with provocative, Rupert Wyatt is a wonderful, world-building director, together with their vision of Halo volition enthrall fans of the game piece also drawing the uninitiated into a basis of complex characters that populate this unique universe."
"As nosotros recollect almost what it agency to convey videogame franchises to painting or TV - the biggest challenge tin oft live finding the correct residuum betwixt moments fans pick out already experienced together with moments that pick out yet to live experienced through a dissimilar medium, perspective, or creative lens," 343 Industry caput of transmedia Kiki Wolfkill said inwards a separate statement. "We are excited to navigate these creative waters to convey y'all something that is both respectful of what y'all already know together with love, but also novel together with surprising together with enthralling."
One interesting matter almost the annunciation is that it makes no refer of Steven Spielberg, who has previously been touted every bit an of import purpose of the creative team. 343 Industries caput Bonnie Ross described the serial inwards the 2013 announcement every bit beingness "created inwards partnership amongst 343 Industries together with ane of the best storytellers of all time, Mr. Steven Spielberg." That descriptor has stuck, amongst both TV Guide together with Screenrant calling it "Steven Spielberg's Halo" serial before this year.
Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment production companionship is even together with thus involved, together with Wolfkill referenced him inwards her statement, maxim that Showtime, Amblim, together with Spielberg "have been gracious partners inwards helping set together the correct creative squad to convey Halo to television." So it's non every bit if the connector has been totally severed, but I practise wonder if it's been oversold.
It's purely speculation on my part, but ane individual who mightiness live involved, despite non beingness mentioned, is sometime Bungie composer Marty O'Donnell. O'Donnell, who won multiple awards for his soundtracks, was fired yesteryear master copy Halo studio Bungie inwards 2014 together with eventually won a case against it; he teased on Twitter yesterday that a Halo reunion mightiness live inwards the works. At the fourth dimension I took it every bit a reference to Halo Infinite, but the timing makes me wonder if perchance this is what he was getting at.
Alas, it'll live awhile yet before nosotros instruct to kicking dorsum together with spotter Master Chief (or perchance a fresh, new, made-for-television cast playing a vital, never-before-seen supporting purpose inwards his adventures) practise his matter on the small-scale screen. The Halo serial isn't scheduled to genuinely move inwards production until early on 2019.
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