The Halo TV Series Casts Its Master Chief – GameSpot

At prolonged last, there is been a chief pattern in the creation of Showtime’s upcoming TV adaptation of the Halo on-line game franchise. We peaceful manufacture now no longer know when this can even premiere, but we’re by some means ready to fulfill Grasp Chief.

The mysterious masked resolve, who’s on the middle of the on-line game franchise, has been solid by the community. Per Entertainment Weekly, Orange is the New Black and American Gods alum Pablo Schreiber will occupy the feature. A personality description reads, “Earth’s most evolved warrior in the 26th century and the entirely hope of salvation for a civilization pushed to the brink of destruction by the Covenant, an unstoppable alliance of alien worlds dedicated to the destruction of humanity.”

What remains to be viewed is whether or now no longer or now no longer followers will ever surely leer Schreiber’s face. Within the games, Chief’s identity remains a thriller. Whereas that you simply would possibly possibly presumably resolve that would change for the sequence, Showtime president of programming Gary Levine previously stated whether or now no longer Chief would unmask “is a key ask and a in actual fact main piece of our sequence.”

Schreiber is no longer in actual fact the entirely original solid, though. EW experiences newcomer Yerin Ha had moreover been added to the snarl as Quan Ah, “a shrewd, dauntless 16-year-frail from the Outer Colonies who meets Grasp Chief at a fateful time for them each.”

Halo is anticipated to launch up production this drop in Budapest, with Kyle Killen and Steven Kane serving as co-showrunners. Black Replicate alum Otto Bathurst has signed on to instruct and invent the sequence. Showtime describes its resolve on Halo as “weaving deeply drawn private experiences with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the long coast.”

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