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Halo: videogames classic goes from consoles to television

Halo will not only win a new video game. The franchise, which became popular on Xbox, will now turn into a television series. The rights were acquired by the cable channel North American Showtime, which says to have in this project "the most ambitious series ever."The season will make a first season with 10 episodes and production will start already in the early months of 2019.The plot has not yet been revealed, but the statement sent to the press advances that the series is a dramatization of the "epic conflict, passed in the twenty-sixth century, which opposes humanity to an alien threat known as Covenant."This is not the first time Halo has hit the small screen, although previous attempts have not been the industry's best example of success. Peter Jackson, responsible for the saga Lord of the Rings, came to show interest in creating a film around Halo, but the project never came to fruition. Guillermo del Toro arrived to join the project and D.B. Weiss, known for being one of the creative minds behind Game of Thrones, even wrote part of the script.
In 2013 Microsoft announced that it was working on an adaptation with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, but the company eventually shut down the television department shortly thereafter. Halo: Nightfall was the final product of this partnership, which was also collaborated with Showtime, but the series was never consensual among fans and critics, having therefore fallen quickly into oblivion.
The North American channel believes that this series can help the station build its own science fiction portfolio, since the genre seems to be thriving in the segment.



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