The all-new official trailer for Paramount’s upcoming Halo TV series was revealed at halftime during the AFC Championship matchup this weekend. Master Chief, along with a few of its core characters from the popular video game series, will finally arrive on the small screen this year. Compared to the previous teasers released over the past several months, this all-new trailer definitely reveals some epic footage for the highly-anticipated television series. You can check out the official full-length trailer for the upcoming Halo TV series below.
While most of the previous promotional material had mainly focused on Master Chief's iconic helmet rather than his entire costume, the latest official trailer finally gives fans a much better glimpse of what's to come later this year. The trailer also gives us a sample of the show's version of Cortana, who is played by Jen Taylor, which is also the same voice actress from the video game series.
Originally intended to launch at Showtime back in 2015 with Stephen Spielberg at the helm as a producer, plans for the Halo television series were pushed back several times until it finally landed at Paramount. The original Halo video game trilogy was first developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios with Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001, followed by Halo 2 in 2004 and Halo 3 in 2007. After a number of spinoff video games, Bungie would later depart the franchise in 2012, with 343 Industries serving as the developer ever since.
The Halo TV Series Won't Be Canon
While the Halo universe continues to expand, it has been confirmed that the television series timeline will not be canon to the video games. In a video posted to Twitter (via Halopedia), Executive Producer Kiki Wolfkill says the decision should be beneficial for both universes. Hello there, Silver Timeline. "We're referring to this as the Halo Silver Timeline as a way of differentiating it from core canon," Wolfkill said. "In both protecting core canon and protecting the television story, and by that I mean being able to give ourselves the chance to evolve both and for both to be what they need to be for their mediums without colliding with each other."
Halo is an upcoming American live-action military science fiction television series based on the video game franchise of the same name. The current synopsis for the series reveals that it will follow "an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. Halo will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure, and a richly imagined vision of the future."
The Halo series will star Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, Natascha McElhone as Dr. Catherine Halsey (a scientist for the UNSC, and creator of the Spartan-II Project), Yerin Ha as Kwan Ha, Charlie Murphy as Makee, Shabana Azmi as Admiral Margaret Parangosky (Director of ONI), Bokeem Woodbine as Soren-066, Olive Gray as Miranda Keyes, Kate Kennedy as Kai-125, Natasha Culzac as Riz-028, Bentley Kalu as Vannal-134, Danny Sapani as Captain Jacob Keyes, and Jen Taylor as Cortana (an artificial intelligence AI construct).
Halo will be available for streaming on Paramount+ on March 24. The upcoming television series will consist of a total of 9 episodes with roughly 50-60 minute runtimes. Currently, Halo has an estimated budget of $200 million, with episodes being directed by Otto Bathurst, Jonathan Liebesman, M.J. Bassett, Roel Reine, and Jet Wilkinson. There are reportedly already talks for a second season, but the series has not been given an official renewal as of yet.