He was joined by Yerin Ha, Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac and Kate Kennedy.
Casting įrom April–August 2019, the cast for the series was announced, with Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief. However, should the show get picked up for a second season, Kane would not return. Killien had left prior to the start of production, due to him feeling like he wasn't able to fulfill the duties of showrunner, with Kane taking the reins as lead show-runner until post production work had been completed. On June 25, 2021, it was reported that both Kane and Killien would be exiting as show runners following the completion of season one. Showtime president Gary Levine said that the show was an outlier for the company's brand, and as a "big broad tentpole show" it was a better fit on Paramount's service. On February 24, 2021, the series was moved from Showtime to Paramount+. In March 2019, Steven Kane was added as co-showrunner alongside Killen. He was replaced by Otto Bathurst in February 2019. On December 3, Wyatt stepped down as director and EP due to scheduling conflicts. On August 12, it was announced that Master Chief would be the main lead of the series and that the series would tell a new story from the video games while respecting its canon at the same time. Kyle Killen was set to be showrunner, writer and executive producer, while Rupert Wyatt was attached as director and executive producer. On June 28, 2018, Showtime was given a 10-episode series order. As of August 2015, the series had still been in active development. On May 21, 2013, Steven Spielberg was attached in executive producing a television series based on the video game franchise Halo, distributed by Xbox Entertainment Studios and Spielberg's company Amblin Television, to be titled Halo: The Television Series. The television series had gone through development hell with a planned release in 2015 with Steven Spielberg as producer, later changed to a 2019 release with Rupert Wyatt as producer, then a 2020 release, the show is now currently planned to air in 2022 with Otto Bathurst as producer. Taylor reprises her role from the Halo video game series. She is entrusted to the care of Master Chief as her knowledge makes her an attractive target for the Covenant.
Killen was hired in June 2018, with the series officially announced with a 10-episode order for Paramount+. Development for a Halo television series began in 2015. Pablo Schreiber and Jen Taylor star as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and Cortana, the latter reprising her role from the video game series and are joined by Natascha McElhone, Yerin Ha, Charlie Murphy, Shabana Azmi, Bokeem Woodbine, Kate Kennedy, Natasha Culzac, and Bentley Calu. It is produced by Amblin Television, 343 Industries, Showtime Networks, One Big Picture, and Chapter Eleven, and follows a 26th-century war between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant, a theocratic-military alliance of several advanced alien races. Halo is an upcoming American military science fiction streaming television series developed by Kyle Killen, and Steven Kane for the streaming service Paramount+, based on the video game franchise of the same name.