Showtime has announced that a live-action adaptation of video game Halo has been given a series order.
“Halo is our most ambitious series ever, and we expect audiences who have been anticipating it for years to be thoroughly rewarded,” said David Nevins, President and CEO Showtime Networks. “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.”
Based on the Xbox video game franchise, with Kyle Killen (Awake) to develop the series for television, Halo will chronicle a 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. The series will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure, and a richly imagined vision of the future.
This will be the first live-action series based on a video game since Syfy’s Defiance, which lasted three seasons and concluded in 2015. It will also be Killen’s first television series since short-lived ABC procedural Mind Games. He’s also been behind Lone Star and an upcoming adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s Velvet for Paramount Television.
Production on Halo is set to begin in early 2019.
