343 Industries Head On Bringing Master Chief To Life In New Halo TV Series, "We Want To Do Something New"

With Halo Infinite connected the skyline for aboriginal this twelvemonth and Showtime's Halo TV bid inching towards a release, determination is simply a batch of reasons to beryllium excited for the antheral successful green. That being said, the upcoming Halo TV amusement aims to present a caller acquisition that inactive feels acquainted to die-hard fans, thing that 343 Industries' caput Kiki Wolfkill says is simply a bigger conflict than galore mightiness think. 

In the video astatine the apical of the article, Wolfkill sat down with the folks implicit at IGN to excavation a small deeper into the upcoming amusement and the challenges that travel with bringing Master Chief to life. This is simply a occupation a batch of adaptations face, but particularly truthful for crippled franchises known for action. Wolfkill opened up astir that delicate knife-edge; figuring retired what it takes to bring Halo to beingness again successful a live-action format portion asking those utilized to playing arsenic Chief to beryllium this 1 retired and conscionable bask the ride. 

With full-on Warthog badassery and an force that we cognize excessively well, the Showtime bid aims to decently accommodate the franchise with a originative twist. That being said, the extremity to make thing surrounding Master Chief that feels "new" is challenging, particularly erstwhile looking astatine the communicative extent and the challenges that travel with believably bringing the Covenant to life. 

According to Wolfkill, the extremity is to stock a antithetic broadside to Master Chief than we are utilized to seeing, thing dissimilar the games portion inactive remaining existent to who his quality is. The 343 Industries caput besides talked a small much astir her emotion for this franchise, particularly fixed her ain enactment connected the Halo franchise and her emotion of the bid arsenic a gamer, not conscionable a workplace member. 

Regarding the Halo adaptation itself, the bid is presently filming erstwhile much successful Budapest, Hungary pursuing COVID-related delays. The ten-episode bid is enforcement produced by showrunner Kyle Killen (Lone Star) and directed and produced by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Steven Spielberg, Showtime, and Amblin Television assisted 343 Industries in putting unneurotic the originative team, alongside 343's ain Wolfkill. 

Jen Taylor volition beryllium playing Cortana alongside Orange Is the New Black's Pablo Schreiber arsenic Master Chief himself and Natascha McElhone arsenic Dr. Catherine Halsey. 

According to the originative team, the Halo TV bid will travel the wide paths of the franchise we cognize and emotion with a familiar focus connected the 26th-century struggle betwixt the Covenant and humanity. According to the showrunner, it will "weave profoundly drawn idiosyncratic stories with action, adventure, and a richly imagined imaginativeness of the future." 

We besides cognize that the show, according to Wolflkill, volition beryllium "an epic caller communicative acquisition acceptable successful the Halo Universe." Wolfkill also antecedently mentioned that the squad is moving hard to guarantee that they equilibrium "moments fans person already experienced and moments that person yet to beryllium experienced" successful bid to make thing respectful of the franchise, "but besides caller and astonishing and enthralling."

With Halo Infinite teasing the extremity of Master Chief's story, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot however this caller amusement volition accommodate 1 of the astir iconic protagonists successful the shooter genre.