We have some news on the long, long-gestating television adaptation of the super-popular video game franchise, Halo. The project had yet another delay when director Rupert Wyatt left the production late last year.

The good news is Gary Levine, an executive producer at Showtime, recently spoke at the Television Critics Association summer press tour and said that Halo will enter production later this year in Budapest and is expected to premiere during the first part of 2021. You can check out what Levine had to say about the series below.

“We have continued our forward motion and it gets more and more exciting. Obviously changing a director will affect the project a little bit, but Otto Bathurst is a marvelous director, unbelievably passionate about the material. He’s been leading our team in Budapest brilliantly. We’re really excited about the way the series is prepping, that we actually have a production date ahead because clearly this is a big, big ambitious production. We love where the scripts are. Our challenge on this series was to take a video game and to make it into a character drama that belongs on Showtime. I’m happy to say on paper we’ve accomplished that and now we’re looking forward to accomplishing that on the screen.”

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Levine also announced a number of cast additions including Natasha Culzac, Bentley Kalu, Shabana Azmi, and Kate Kennedy. You can find a description of their characters from Levine down below.

“Kalu will play Spartan Vannak-134, a cybernetically augmented supersoldier conscripted at childhood who serves as the de facto deputy to the Master Chief. British actress Culzac will star in the role of Spartan Riz-028 – a focused, professional and deadly, cybernetically enhanced killing machine. Kennedy stars as Spartan Kai-125, an all-new courageous, curious and deadly Spartan supersoldier. Yerin Ha was previously announced playing the new character Kwan Ha, a shrewd, audacious 16-year-old from the Outer Colonies who meets Master Chief at a fateful time for them both.”

I played the game quite a bit when it first debuted long ago on the original Xbox, I wouldn’t say I was a hardcore fan, but even so, being the genre is science fiction, I am more than willing to give the TV series a chance when it finally premieres in roughly a year-and-a-half.

Are you excited to see things finally moving forward with Halo? Let us know in the comments down below!

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