Showtime’s ‘Halo’ Live-Action Series Green Lit for 10 Episodes

Halo Live Action Series

Showtime’s Halo live-action series has spun itself out of development hell and into a 10-episode commitment along with 343 Industries and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television.

With Halo, based on the venerable and marquee Microsoft Xbox video game franchise, Showtime is aiming to directly compete with Amazon’s upcoming The Lord of the Rings series and HBO’s Game of Thrones along with its forthcoming spin-offs. The Halo production values and scope will far exceed anything the premium cable service has produced before.


Bringing Halo to live-action for the first time are executive producer, writer and showrunner Kyle Killen (Awake); and executive producer Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) who will multitask and direct at least a couple episodes.

Also producing are Scott Pennington along with Amblin Television’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank.

Showtime CEO David Nevins made the announcement and offered some words of hope for fans that have gone through a false start on a live action Halo movie already. “Halo is our most ambitious series ever, and we expect audiences who have been anticipating it for years to be thoroughly rewarded,” said Nevins. “In the history of television, there simply has never been enough great science fiction.”

“Kyle Killen’s scripts are thrilling, expansive and provocative, Rupert Wyatt is a wonderful, world-building director, and their vision of Halo will enthrall fans of the game while also drawing the uninitiated into a world of complex characters that populate this unique universe.”

Production is scheduled to start in early 2019 so expect casting announcements to be made in the coming months.

Here’s the vague yet official Halo live-action series description for the time being.

Halo (working title) will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001, dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant.

Source: Xbox

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