Seven years after the series’ first announcement, Paramount Plus finally released the live-action Halo TV show’s teaser trailer during Xbox’s 20th-anniversary event on Monday.
Despite the long wait, the 27-second teaser withheld all action scenes and sneak peeks into the plot. The clip only shows close-ups of a scarred Pablo Schreiber wearing Master Chief’s unmistakable armor and closes with Jen Taylor’s Cortana saying “Hello, Master Chief.” The Steven Spielberg-produced series is set to release exclusively on Paramount Plus in 2022.
As revealed in a press release in 2018, the science fiction series “will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001, dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant.”
On top of Schreiber and Taylor (who also voiced Cortana in the video-game series), the cast has a long list of members: Natascha McElhone as Dr. Catherine Halsey; Danny Sapani and Olive Gray as the father-daughter duo of Captain Jacob and Dr. Miranda Keyes; Bokeem Woodbine as Soren-066; Shabana Azmi as Admiral Margaret Parangosky; Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac and Kate Kennedy as brand-new Spartan characters.
Showtime, Amblin Television, One Big Picture and Chapter Eleven are producing Halo, along with the series’ video game developer 343 Industries. Steven Kane (The Doghouse) and Kyle Killen (Awake) are the showrunners. Jonathan Liebesman (Battle Los Angeles), Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders), Roel Reiné (Washington) and Jessica Lowrey (Heels) take turns as directors. Spielberg and Darryl Frank headline the long list of executive producers.
What to Know About the “Halo” TV Show
For those who never played any of the Halo video games, Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is the main character of the successful Xbox franchise. John-117, a human, undergoes biological and mechanical upgrades to become a Spartan-II super-soldier and battle on behalf of the human race in the Human-Covenant War.
As mentioned in the original announcement, the Halo TV Show “will stand alone, as well as complement and enrich the game experience.” Therefore, the audience isn’t expected to have previously played the Halo video games to understand the upcoming show.
