Halo’s Trailer Bring Master Chief’s Sci-fi Odyssey to Live Action

Since the unique Halo launched in 2001, Microsoft has been attempting for a very long time to get Bungie and 343 Industries’ sci-fi shooter into dwell motion past wonderful commercials and webseries tie-ins. After a number of aborted makes an attempt at making a film, Halo is now lastly a TV present for Paramount+ (with some velocity bumps alongside the way in which) that winds again the clock to the times when Master Chief’s life and the Human/Covenant War was rather more easier.

One of the fascinating issues about Halo the present is that it’s not really in the identical continuity because the 20-year gaming franchise. Instead, it’s in personal separate continuity dubbed “the Silver Timeline,” named so as a result of Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) may have a brand new crew of Spartans by his facet moderately than his pretty effectively established Blue Team members Linda, Fred, and Kelly from the expanded media. That mentioned, the members of Silver Team—which consists of Riz-028 (Natasha Culzac), Vannak-134 (Bentley Kalu), and Kai-125 (Kate Kennedy)—are mentioned to exist in the principle continuity as effectively. The timelines had been beforehand described by 343 to be extraordinarily comparable, however some parts within the present will probably be completely different in refined and not-subtle ways in which’ll make themselves identified over time, equivalent to Chief and Cortana (voiced by Jen Taylor, like within the video games) actively searching for out the titular Halo ring on function moderately than stumbling upon it.

What stays to be seen with Halo is what it can provide the general franchise past simply being a reinterpretation of occasions hundreds of thousands of gamers have skilled since they had been youngsters. Each Halo recreation has introduced one thing new to the desk in ways in which have each enchanted and excited followers for years on finish. Given how a lot of a journey it’s been for this present to see launch, and the way a lot Halo’s fanbase is extraordinarily explicit in what they need out of the franchise, this new present may both be a legend in its personal proper or want to return to the Spartan Academy and do a couple of extra drills.

Halo premieres March 24 on Paramount+.

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