SNEAK PEEK : Spielberg's Live-Action "Halo"

Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Spielberg's Live-Action "Halo"

Shooting continues on producer Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment production of the live-action "Halo" TV series, based on the military science fiction first-person shooter video games, prepping 8 episodes for a 2021 Showtime TV release:

Cast includes Pablo Schreiber as 'John-117', Yerin Ha as 'Kwan Ha', Natasha McElhone as 'Catherine Halsey', 'Cortana', Bookeem Woodbine as 'Soren-066', Shabana Azmi as 'Margaret Parangosky', Bentlet Kalu as 'Vannak-134', Natasha Culzac as 'Riz-028' AND Kate Kennedy as 'Kai-125'.

""It is a very different genre", said Showtime president David Nevins about the new series. "It's futuristic, space-based science fiction, not fantasy.

"It took us a long time to get the script but we felt like we had something that was really interesting and felt like it belonged on Showtime in terms of its character depth...and it's gonna' be a big show."

"We made a conscious decision to hire a writer not known for sci-fi and not known for big battle movies", said Showtime's President of Programming Gary Levine, "because that's already baked into the 'Halo' franchise. And we will service that, but we also wanted to ensure that we were getting beneath the formidable armor of the 'Spartans' and really getting inside the team drama so it felt like it belonged on Showtime."

The "Halo" games, created by Bungie and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios, follows an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the 'Covenant'.

The Covenant, led by religious leaders the 'Prophets', worship the ancient civilization the 'Forerunners', who perished in combat with the parasitic 'Flood'.