The Halo live action TV Series surely is having a hard time getting off the ground. The TV series has been planned 6 years ago, but sometimes plans do not go accordingly. Whilst Microsoft gave the green light for production last year with Showtime behind this and that it will be shown as a paid series on cable, the pieces of the puzzle still need to fall into place.
The last year’s press release was that Rupert Wyatt (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”) will be directing the 10-episode series. However, Wyatt then left the project a few months after the announcement due to conflict in schedules.
Otto Bathurst will be directing the popular video game franchise on the Xbox game console according to Deadline and Kyle Killen will be part of the show as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Otto Bathurst is known for the first directing the first episode of the “Black Mirror” in 2011 and the 2018 "Robin Hood" that got nominated for Worst Picture at the Razzies.
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Furthermore, from the original 10 episodes, it will be a 9-episode season with 343 Industries, the game studio behind the Halo series and Amblin Entertainment of Steven Spielberg involved in the project. Bathurst will direct multiple episodes for the series. The series adaptation will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001 and it will be dramatizing an epic 26th-century war by humanity against an alien threat known as the Covenant.
Will a live action Halo project be a success just like the video game franchise which is massively successful? The live action digital series “Halo: Nightfall” was considered to be not good and the planned Halo movie never happened. The production of the TV series is expected to start early this year.
CBS International will be in charge of international distribution.
