Halo TV series sets March debut + official trailerParamount Plus’s highly anticipated TV series adaptation of Halo has got itself a premiere date and an all-new official trailer. According to THR, the series is set to make its debut on March 24th. The official Halo tv trailer gives us a much better look at Pablo Schreiber‘s Master Chief in action than we saw previously. Production on Halo got underway back in 2019 but was shut down last March by the COVID-19 pandemic after between 55%-60% of the first season had been filmed. In addition to Schreiber as Master Chief, Halo also stars Natasha McElhone as Dr. Halsey, “the brilliant, conflicted and inscrutable creator of the Spartan super-soldiers” and Jen Taylor as Cortana, “the most advanced AI in human history, and potential the key to the survival of the human race.” Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Olive Gray, Yerin Ha, Bentley Kalu, Kate Kennedy, Charlie Murphy, and Danny Sapani are also slated to star in the series. The series will “weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future” as it centers on a conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. “It delivers the visceral excitement of playing the game, along with a much deeper emotional experience around the Spartans, human beings who got their humanity chemically and genetically altered,” David Nevins, Chief Creative Officer, CBS & Chairman, and CEO, Showtime Networks, said. “The story is about reclaiming what makes them human, and therefore it’s a very powerful story.” Showtime will continue to produce Halo for Paramount+, but the jump to the streaming service has been in the works for some time as Nevins said that they “were on the hunt for signature shows beyond the Star Trek franchise on CBS All Access” and began to think that Halo would fit the bill once they started to see finished footage from the series. What are YOUR thoughts on the Halo tv trailer?
