HALO: Steven Spielberg Produced TV Series Will Premiere in Fall 2015

Halo TV Series Premiering in 2015. A Steven Spielberg-produced TV series will premiere in the fall of 2015 but its unclear yet if that will be exclusive to X-Box One or whether it will play on a Showtime first before airing via X-Box One. If successful, this deal will be brokered though a partnership between the Showtime and Microsoft.

 On how the Halo TV series will be incorporated into the video game mythology:

The Spielberg-produced “Halo” series “will stand alone, as well as complement and enrich the game experience,” Bonnie Ross, g.m. of 343 Industries, wrote in a blog post Friday.

On the Halo video game series:

Halo is a multi-billion dollar military science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant, led by their religious leaders, the Prophets, worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners, who perished in combat with the parasitic Flood. Many of the games center on the experiences of Master Chief John-117, one of a group of soldiers codenamed Spartans, and his artificial intelligence (AI) companion, Cortana. The only other single Spartan focused on in the series is Noble Six, the main protagonist of Halo Reach. The term “Halo” refers to the Halo rings: large, habitable structures that were created by the Forerunners to destroy all sentient life. They are similar to the Orbitals in Iain M Banks’ Culture novels, and author Larry Niven’s Ringworld concept.

The games in the series have been praised as being among the best first-person shooters on a video game console, and are considered the Xbox’s “killer app”. This has led to the term “Halo killer” being used to describe console games that aspire, or are considered, to be better than Halo. Fueled by the success of Halo: Combat Evolved, and immense marketing campaigns from publisher Microsoft, its sequels went on to break various sales records. Halo 3 sold more than US$170 million worth of copies in the first twenty-four hours of release, breaking the record set by Halo 2 three years prior. Halo: Reach, in turn, broke the record set by Halo 3, selling US$200 million worth of copies on its first day of release. Continuing the trend, Halo 4 broke Halo: Reach’s record on its opening day by grossing US$220 million. The games have sold over 50 million copies worldwide, with the games alone grossing almost $3.4 billion.

Strong sales of the games led to the franchise’s expansion to other media; there are multiple bestselling novels, graphic novels, and other licensed products. Halo Wars took the franchise into new video game genre territory, as it is a real-time strategy game, while the rest of the games in the series are first-person shooters. Beyond the original trilogy, Bungie developed the expansion Halo 3: ODST, and a prequel, Halo: Reach, their last project for the franchise. A high-definition remake of the first game entitled Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary was released on November 15, 2011, exactly ten years after the release of the original. A new installment in a second series of games, Halo 4, was released on November 6, 2012.

The cultural impact of the Halo series has been compared by writer Brian Bendis to that of Star Wars. The collective group of fans of the series is referred to as the “Halo Nation”.

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Source: Wikipedia, Variety