Showtime has confirmed, as soon as once more, that the Halo TV sequence produced by Steven Spielberg has not been cancelled.
In truth, head of programming at Showtime, Gary Levine, mentioned that “it’s still in very active development” at a latest press tour.
“[It’s] still moving forward and I’m encouraged by what we’ve seen so far,” he instructed TV Guide, including that the live-action sequence will enchantment to Halo followers and Showtime’s drama viewers.
In case you fully blocked it out (and we don’t blame you), a live-action Halo TV venture was introduced all the way in which again in 2013, previous to the launch of Xbox One. At the time, Xbox management was very a lot in love with the concept of creating authentic TV content material, going as a far as hiring a Hollywood government to guide a newly established TV studio underneath the Xbox Entertainment Studios banner.
Among the planned shows – the vast majority of which have been bought off or canned when Microsoft later shuttered the studio and refocused the model round video games – was one about Halo.
Microsoft marketed Spielberg’s involvement very prominently on the time, promising to share extra at a later date. That was over 4 years in the past, and we’ve really had an identical report concerning the state of the Halo TV sequence again in 2015.
Over two years in the past, an IGN report revealed that the show is still in development at Showtime, however that it was a methods off.
Sadly, it doesn’t appear to be we’re any nearer to seeing any official particulars, not to mention the present itself, than we have been at any level because it was first introduced.
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