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Showtime orders Halo live-action TV series: 'Most Ambitious Series Ever'
- Thread starter chadskin
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Showtime puts out high quality shows like Homeland, Affair and Billions so obviously I'm really intrigued, normally I'd just write off any videogame adaptations. If it was on SyFy then I'd have zero interest, so that's something.
Truth be told, I think something tonally close to the PJ Lord of the Rings trilogy would work
Fun, adventurous, some good levity, but also serious.
Find a way to do Halo TV like that and it'll be gold.
Fun, adventurous, some good levity, but also serious.
Find a way to do Halo TV like that and it'll be gold.
FUD is great it just suffers from looking cheap at times due to the budget
You mean Keyes? Hmm, then fast forward to him commanding the ship that took on 4 Covenant ships singlehandinly by using mathematic algorithms lol
Went in for a suicide run to by some time and ended up creating the famous "Keyes Loop"
I think it should star Locke as a "new" spartan trying to hunt down the MC who would be a secondary character. Right guys?? Right?
It's been told enough? lol. Not as live action, and definately not done properly.
Start with kids being recruted, experimented on. Build up the characters and slowly delve into the world and use ONI to its fullest potential. If they want a complex live action take on Halo, that's where they ought to start.
Yeah. Still, it did nail the look overall quite well.
Also wonder if we will see Preston Cole. Would love to see Battle of Psi Serpentis.
I actually like Mike Colter and Locke wasn't really developed so they could make the character interesting.
I'm totally down for more Locke. His character needs some more exploration.
Locke is already tied down with another series commitment....
I would not want more Locke anytime soon. Halo5 was already heavily criticized because of that and locke got that halo movie too. Both were critically bashed. More of that clearly isnt the answer.
If they take some of the ad campaigns the games have had as inspiration they'll be in good shape. Those Halo 3 ads are basically Band of Brothers down to the old boys reminiscing about their experiences.
Halo lore is incredibly deep and intriguing, be interesting to see how a TV series set in the Halo universe ends up.
Please be good. Halo went from being one of my all-time favorite series to something I don't even open a thread for.
With this series and Halo Infinite, they have a chance to turn this around.
With this series and Halo Infinite, they have a chance to turn this around.
Ever since I saw the Halo 3 "Believe" commercials, I've been dying for an actual series.
On the one hand it's a shame that this is coming long after the series peaked in terms of cultural relevance - this would have been a much bigger deal a decade ago. But on the other hand, this is probably the golden age of television and the delay will likely mean much higher production values than would have been possible before. TV wasn't taken as seriously as it now is.
Can't wait.
On the one hand it's a shame that this is coming long after the series peaked in terms of cultural relevance - this would have been a much bigger deal a decade ago. But on the other hand, this is probably the golden age of television and the delay will likely mean much higher production values than would have been possible before. TV wasn't taken as seriously as it now is.
Can't wait.
I certainly hope they use some of his themes but he doesn't strike me as the type of music artist that will mesh well with the demands of composing on a TV schedule.
I mean not really. It really all just depends on what battles they show.
If anything them doing Spaceship battles consisting of hundreds of ships might be a tad bit harder.
I had coffee with Jeff Steitzer on
It was either him or Senor Spelbergo, but tariffs got in the way.
There was no "meeting with Marty" that was three people who know each other and live in the same town having coffee and a selfie together.
It was either him or Senor Spelbergo, but tariffs got in the way.
There was no "meeting with Marty" that was three people who know each other and live in the same town having coffee and a selfie together.
ok give us some hints about the showIt was either him or Senor Spelbergo, but tariffs got in the way.
what will the water look like?
Yeah, that was ugly. You should hook me up with an Infinite beta key if/when there's one to compensate.
Star Trek, BSG, Expanse, etc. have been doing decent spaceship combat for decades. Discovery in particular looks extraordinary. The one thing they all shy away from is large-scale infantry combat. Afaik GOT was the first to pull it off convincingly, and that was using humans (and computer humans).
For the record, I don't think there will be a lot of hundred-ship space battles either. But think about the budgetary requirements of a spaceship show (that's a technical term) versus a show focused on infantry combat. You're talking about a single set and a handful of reusable CGI spacecraft assets versus location shooting and dozens if not hundreds of meticulously rendered alien combatants.
CGI characters are costly as fuck. Rendering lots of them is even harder.
That's happening for the coop and Terry Crews. Still want to make sure I play Infinite asap.
I'm confident it will be a side story, but will probably though intersect with a lot of big moments in the lore during the Human-Covenant war. I wouldn't be surprised if the initial attack of Harvest appears at some point.
I can see the opening being the fall of Reach, because that was a significant turning point in the war that would have affected many civilian and military lives. It also means that it would intersect with 1-3.