Halo TV Series Thread - Showtime’s Halo TV Series gets 10 ep order, their "most ambitious series ever"

[iup=3609929]Alvin Flummux[/iup] wrote:Episodes are half an hour long?

[iup=3609933]Crimson[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3609929]Alvin Flummux[/iup] wrote:Episodes are half an hour long?

I thought Nightfall was just a one off feature? Isn't the Showtime series next year the actual show?

[iup=3609995]Monkey Man[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3609933]Crimson[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3609929]Alvin Flummux[/iup] wrote:Episodes are half an hour long? :dread:

I thought Nightfall was just a one off feature? Isn't the Showtime series next year the actual show?

Yep, the showtime show is the one I'm really looking forward to. Nightfall is just "Forward unto Dawn part 2" with a bit of a higher budget.

[iup=3610209]HSH28[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3609995]Monkey Man[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3609933]Crimson[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3609929]Alvin Flummux[/iup] wrote:Episodes are half an hour long?

I thought Nightfall was just a one off feature? Isn't the Showtime series next year the actual show?

Yep, the showtime show is the one I'm really looking forward to. Nightfall is just "Forward unto Dawn part 2" with a bit of a higher budget.

Its not a one off feature though is it (at least not according to what you've posted).

Showtime’s Halo TV Series Starts Filming In October, Filming Location Revealed

It looks like Showtime’s Halo won’t disappoint fans with another delay in production. A recent update has revealed that the network is set to begin production on the series and also seems to have a location confirmed for filming.

According to Production Weekly, Halo series’ current filming status is set for this October. Furthermore, the listing has also revealed the filming location as Budapest, Hungary.

Last month, Pursue News spotted the Halo scoop from the production listing which revealed that the series was set to begin production this fall.

Since the start of this year, fans have continued to receive assurance that the project is not dead. Showtime’s president and CEO David Nevins also said that “[It’s] still in very active development”.

Though fans expected the series to have seen the light long back ago, it looks like the network is still confident over the in development live action miniseries to see success such as HBO’s Game of Thrones.

The project has high hopes since it is backed by Steven Spielberg as the executive producer. Though the Oscar winner hasn’t had anything to say about the project since its announcement, his recent film Ready Player One had a few Halo references that gave a glimpse of what the live action series would be.

Halo: Showtime Orders Live-Action Drama Based on Xbox Franchise, Calls Project Its 'Most Ambitious Series Ever'

Here’s some news of literal epic proportions: In what Showtime is calling its “most ambitious” series to date, the cabler has placed a 10-episode order for a live-action adaptation of the Xbox video game phenom Halo. Kyle Killen (Lone Star, Awake) will serve as EP, writer and showrunner of the series, with Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) directing multiple installments. Both will serve as EPs alongside Steve Spielberg. Production is slated to begin in early 2019.

“Halo is our most ambitious series ever, and we expect audiences who have been anticipating it for years to be thoroughly rewarded,” said Showtime president David Nevins in a statement. “In the history of television, there simply has never been enough great science fiction. Kyle Killen’s scripts are thrilling, expansive and provocative, Rupert Wyatt is a wonderful, world-building director, and their vision of Halo will enthrall fans of the game while also drawing the uninitiated into a world of complex characters that populate this unique universe.”

The series will dramatize “an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant,” per Showtime. “Halo will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.

Other characters poised to be featured in the series are Dr. Halsey — likely the Dr. Catherine Halsey who appears in 2010's Halo: Reach and 2012's Halo 4 and 2015's Halo 5: Guardians; and Jenny, listed as an Asian woman between the ages of 18-20. There is no major character by the name of Jenny in the games, but Dr. Halsey is a prominent figure in Halo lore.

Dr. Halsey is the creator of the SPARTAN-II program which produced the elite corps of supersoldiers and their Mjolnir Powered Assault Armor. The casting notice for her character calls for an actress between the ages of 55-65, so it is likely that the series will focus on the later stage of her life when she worked to protect her Spartan creations rather than simply raising them for war.