Despite all of the delays, a Halo TV show is finally getting made.  The Halo TV series is an anticipated addition to an increasingly stacked slate of announced content on the Paramount+ streaming service, a rebranding of CBS All Access following the re-merger of Viacom and CBS, intended to expand distribution of the company's other properties. Based on the Halo updates, the video game adaptation promises to recreate the look and feel of the original video game franchise while giving a fresh approach to the central story.

The upcoming Halo TV show has been in development since 2013, facing several delays and multiple creative changes. In June 2021, Kyle Killen, one of the Halo showrunners, announced he was leaving the project, while his partner Steve Kane announced that he would also be leaving after Halo season 1 [via Variety]. Rupert Wyatt (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) was originally set to direct multiple episodes, but Wyatt left and was replaced by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders), who also serves as one of the executive producers for Halo season 1 alongside Kane and Killen. Despite the tumultuous production, the series is well into production. In November 2021, an initial trailer even revealed exciting details for the Halo TV show.

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Since the initial announcement, Steven Spielberg has also been attached as executive producer (along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey), with Spielberg's Amblin Television production division co-producing the project with Xbox Game Studios' 343 Industries. Originally slated as a Showtime title in 2018, Viacom executives made the decision to bring Halo over to Paramount+ after seeing the completed footage last fall. Here's everything we know about the Halo TV show, including updates, story details, and release date.

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Showtime's Halo Show Has Moved To Paramount Plus

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David Nevins, who is the Chief Creative Officer of CBS as well as the Showtime Networks Chairman and CEO, considered moving the Halo show from Showtime over to Paramount+ as more ambitious plans for streaming service started to emerge. In talks with both ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish and the show's producers, it was decided that Halo would be an appropriate fit for the platform due to the demand for a more expansive list of content other than what is already included in the company's CBS All Access service. Star Trek is currently a flagship property, but Nevins has stated in a report from Deadline that he and the ViacomCBS team were "on the hunt for signature shows" and "defining series."

Halo TV Show Release Date

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Halo is planned to be released on March 24, 2022, following a troubled production schedule and setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily more than half the show had already been shot when production stalled in March 2020. Five episodes were re-edited during pandemic-related shutdowns, with reshoots commencing as soon as possible. Since Paramount+ generally releases its shows one episode per week, instead of the entire season at once Netflix model, there's no reason to assume the Halo TV show won't also follow that blueprint. Thus, those who love to binge new shows are out of luck.

Halo TV Show Story Details

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As in the video game franchise, Halo follows Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) John-117, a supersoldier fighting in the 26th century for the Unified Earth Government's military, the United Nations Space Command, against the alien religious zealots known as the Covenant. That is until some chance events lead him to reconnect with his humanity, and question his role as a walking weapon. However, the recently released Halo trailer confirmed that the origins of Master Chief and the Spartan Program have been changed, making their existence a response to the Covenant war instead of a reaction to human Insurrectionists. These changes to Master Chief have caused some backlash among fans of the game, unsurprisingly. The hope of the Halo TV show's creators seems to be that audiences will be willing to follow a story that while partially adapting the games, isn't necessarily bound to them either. To that effect, the show takes place in an alternate timeline.

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Halo TV Show Cast

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Pablo Schreiber will be playing the lead role in the Halo TV show — though it's unclear how much the character will be shown without his iconic helmet. Schrieber's acting skills will be bringing the new and different version of Master Chief to the screen than the video game version, voiced by Steve Downes. Natascha McElhone from Californication is in the role of Dr. Catherine Halsey, the head of the Spartan program and "mother" to the supersoldiers. In the video games, Halsey lends her mind and voice to the iconic Spartan AI Cortana, but in the show, Cortana will be voiced by Jen Taylor reprising her role from the source material.

Shabana Azmi, a superstar actress in India, will play the cold and ruthless Admiral Margaret Parangosky of the UNSC's navy. Charlie Murphy from Peaky Blinders will play a brand new character named Makee, a human raised by the Covenant. Danny Sapani from Penny Dreadful is in the role of the brilliant UNSC commander Captain Jacob Keyes, while the role of his daughter Miranda will go to Olive Gray from Half Moon Investigations. Also joining live-action Master Chief are Bokeem Woodbine, praised for his role in season 2 of Fargo, is cast as Halo's former Spartan soldier Soren-066. The cast is also so far set to include Yerin Ha, Natasha Culzac, Bentley Calu, and Kate Kennedy.

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