A little over a month ago, we learned that an adaptation of Halo was coming to the pay-cable service Showtime. The popular video game franchise has been on its way to either the big or small screen for some time. President of programming at Showtime, Gary Levine, recently spoke with reporters after an executive panel, Levine confirmed that the Halo series is an original story, and wouldn’t be based off any of the preexisting games.
“It is a new story, but we are being incredibly respectful of the canon and working with Microsoft 343 people to be sure we don’t violate any of that. We made a conscious decision to hire a writer not known for sci-fi or big battle movies because that’s already baked into the Halo franchise and we will service that but we also wanted to make sure we were getting underneath the armor of the Spartans to the human drama, so it felt like it belonged on Showtime. Our hope is it will appeal to Halo fans and Showtime drama fans.”
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While the show won’t be following any of the games, the most famous Spartan, Master Chief, will take the lead role in the series. Halo was at one time to be a film, or series of films, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson was attached at one point, things never really moved forward though. Showtime is still in the early stages of development and 2020 is being speculated for when the show will air.
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Source: /Film
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