Sci-Fi Halo - The Live Action TV Series - By Steven Spielberg

[Kindred]

Just bought the MCC for PC, and reading the spoiler above regarding the pilot and its timeline....
"I need a weapon"

 

[Pennywise]

Halo Community Update - Happy Halodays 2020

HALO TV SERIES
We couldn't wrap up a look at the whole franchise without talking about Showtime's Halo TV series. To give us the latest news from the set, Kiki Wolfkill has written a few words and shared a few pictures from behind the scenes!

As you may have seen on IG last month, after a herculean effort on Showtime's part, we were able to go back to Budapest a few months ago and resume production on the Halo television series! While we were able to cover a lot of ground during the pandemic 'hiatus', the thing we couldn't do while working from home was to actually shoot. So with a rigorous covid protocol in place and our fingers crossed, we picked up where we left off in March and were able to get some amazing footage in the can. Oh, and this time I got to pack Jen Taylor in my luggage to bring her Cortana magic to the show! What a gift to have her on our set and in Budapest with me. So much to share in 2021 but in the meantime, stay safe, Spartans and enjoy this tiny sneak peek!

 

[Pennywise]

‘Halo’ TV Series Moves From Showtime To Paramount+ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Halo‘s long road to the small screen has taken one final turn. Showtime’s anticipated series based on the hugely popular Xbox video game franchise will migrate to Paramount+ and be available exclusively on ViacomCBS’ streamer. The announcement will be made during the ViacomCBS Streaming Event this afternoon.

Produced by Showtime in partnership with 343 Industries, along with Amblin Television, the series is in production in Budapest and will premiere on Paramount+ in Q1 2022.

Halo reinvented how people think about video games and has grown into a global entertainment phenomenon, having sold more than 81 million copies worldwide. In the television series adaptation, starring Pablo Schreiber, Halo 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. The show will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.

Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey executive produce for Amblin Television alongside Steven Kane, director Otto Bathurst and Toby Leslie for One Big Picture and Kyle Killen and Scott Pennington for Chapter Eleven. Kiki Wolfkill, Frank O’Connor and Bonnie Ross serve as executive producers for 343 Industries.

Halo, which had filmed 55%-60% of its first season when the coronavirus pandemic shut down all production last March, had been floated for months as a possibility for Paramount+ at the ViacomCBS Content Council and in conversations between Nevins and ViacomCBS president and CEO Bob Bakish.

“We were on the hunt for signature shows beyond the Star Trek franchise on CBS All Access and were thinking, what could be a defining series for Paramount+,” Nevins said. Late last fall, the top executives got to see first finished footage from Halo, which put the idea of a move to Paramount+ on an accelerated path. “Halo always fit the bill, but seeing it, we felt it would work,” Nevins said.

He reached out to Showtime’s creative partners on the series, Spielberg and his team at Amblin as well as 343 Industries, the Microsoft-owned video game developer behind the Halo universe. Nevins got them on board with a pitch why Halo would benefit from launching on Paramount+. “It could be a defining show for a newish service that’s got all firepower of an entertainment corporation behind it,” Nevins said.

Halo was originally developed “with an eye toward expanding the palette at Showtime to four-quadrant shows,” Nevins said.

 

[Boom]

God damnit.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Persona]

Has anyone asked Spielberg about Halo lately?

He'd probably be like, "What? They're still making that?"

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Pennywise]

'Halo' Showrunner to Exit Paramount Plus Series After Season 1 - Variety

UPDATED: The showrunner of the “Halo” series at Paramount Plus will exit the show once work on Season 1 is over, Variety has learned exclusively.

Steven Kane and Kyle Killen were both attached as co-showrunners on the series at one time. According to sources, Killen departed the project ahead of the start of production as he felt he was unable to render full-time showrunner duties during the show’s shoot in Budapest. Kane then took over as the lead showrunner.

Production is currently ongoing on Season 1 of the series, with Kane set to remain onboard through the post-production process. Should the show get picked up for a second season, however, he will not return. Kane has been in Budapest now for the past two years and wishes to return stateside for personal reasons.

A second season pickup seems likely for the series, given the high-profile nature of the underlying IP and the high level of investment on ViacomCBS’ part.

 

[Boom]

Maybe in eight years we'll get a trailer for this.

 

[Sawyer]

The Halo TV series is this decade’s answer to The Crow remake.

 

[TheVileOne]

Well it's not like the show is cancelled. Filming during the pandemic couldn't have been easy between quarantine and travel restrictions.

 

[Pennywise]

At least we’re still getting S1 next year.

 

[Pennywise]

Supposedly, images from the show have been leaked. No idea if these are real or not, but I hope they are! Just found them this morning!!

First images of Halo TV series leak online - VG247

 

[Pennywise]

Burn Gorman From ‘Pacific Rim’ & ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Confirms Role In ‘Halo’ Series At Paramount+

 

[Pennywise]

Halo TV Series Will Show a Side of Master Chief Not Seen in Games

Wolfkill spoke to IGN about the Halo TV series during an interview which opened with some comments about Master Chief and the version of the character that we’ll see when the show releases in 2022. The transmedia boss has spoken about the challenges of this adaptation process before and did so again recently by saying that one of the biggest challenges has been portraying Master Chief in a way that has people outside of his suit, not in it.

“Probably the biggest challenge with adapting the game is, the game is designed to put you in Chief's armor,” Wolfkill said. “What we're asking people to do with the show is sort of sit back, and we're going to present a side of Chief that you just don't get to play in the game.”

Despite there being these sorts of challenges when it comes to adapting Haloand Master Chief and everything else involved to a TV show, Wolfkill said there’s essentially “no room to panic” when you consider the other factors and goals present in the process.

For me, what gets me through it is focusing on where we need to get to, right? And focusing on what we want to be able to devlier and why,” Wolfkill said when asked about the stress and pressures of working on the show. “The ‘why’ of it is really important. For the television series, we want to be able to do something new in Halo, and we want people to be able to experience it differently, and there’s such a responsibility, and there’s also just the personal, you know, drive of wanting to create something amazing. And you bring all those things together, and there’s sort of no room to panic.”

 

[Boom]

Halo purists are going to go ape**** over that.

 

[Pennywise]

Halo purists are going to go ape**** over that.

Indeed.

 

[Pennywise]

Showtime Execs Admit That 'Halo' Was "An Odd Fit" For the Network, Promise "Amazing" Paramount+ Launch

After years of development, Showtime gave Halo a 10-episode season order in 2018, but in February 2021 it was announced that the series, still in production, would be moving to Paramount+ for a 2022 premiere. During a virtual press conference at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday, Levine addressed this change by noting that "We started developing Halo seven years ago when there was no Paramount+ or even the glimmer of an idea about it, and it was always a bit of an odd fit, you know — what is Showtime doing taking a first-person shooter video game and putting it with their dramas?"

Winograde did note that while the series was under the Showtime umbrella, they were able to "imbue into the series the character drama that we're known for. But at the end of the day it is a big, broad, big tent show, so when Paramount plus came into being, it really was a natural fit there."

Levine added that "it doesn't leave a hole in our heart" to have the show no longer set for a Showtime premiere, pointing to their excitement about the upcoming series The Man Who Fell to Earth, which had been originally developed for Paramount+ but was part of a "one-time trade" between the two platforms.

As for the upcoming Paramount+ premiere for Halo, Winograde promised that the show "is going to launch this in an amazing way, and they are going to throw big resources at it and that's going to be tremendous for the company as a whole, for, you know 343, which owns the Halo franchise, and for us as the studio."

Winograde wouldn't completely rule out the possibility that Halo might one day be aired on Showtime, but "Paramount+ has a big tent for shows that are four-quadrant. It was in that mountain of entertainment, [while] Showtime has our sophisticated premium curated shows."

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Slick]

I was hoping for a little more footage but still cool.

 

[TheVileOne]

Well, that's definitely a teaser.

I guess my question is, how is the show going to look on a TV budget and platform.

 

[Marvolo]

Well, that's definitely a teaser.

I guess my question is, how is the show going to look on a TV budget and platform.

Star Trek does really good on a premium TV budget with Paramount+.

 

[Silvermoth]

Yes Star Trek is amazing right now

 

[TheVileOne]

Yes Star Trek is amazing right now

I haven't sit down and watched a full season of Discovery or Picard, but the footage I've seen does look some steps above the 1990s shows, Enterprise and the like, but a bit below the Bad Robot films. The aesthetic does look similar though to the Bad Robot movies, especially for Discovery. On a personal level, I've always been fond of the production design of the Star Trek films, Next Generation installments included.

 

[Lily Adler]

Is Spielberg still involved?