HAIL TO THE CHIEF
SFX|April 2022
THE VIDEOGAME JUGGERNAUT HALO FINALLY UNLOCKS ITS EPIC, LIVE-ACTION ADAPTATION SERIES ACHIEVEMENT
TARA BENNETT
HAIL TO THE CHIEF

THERE ARE MANY MILESTONES IN VIDEOGAME history, but one enduring date is 15 November 2001. That’s when Microsoft launched the Xbox and what remains to this day a behemoth industry title: Halo. Created by developers Bungie, one could argue it’s actually Halo: Combat Evolved that propelled the console to success. A sci-fi game set in the 26th century, the first-person shooter put players inside the massive armour and signature helmet of Spartan super-soldier Master Chief, and a gaming icon was born.

Over 20 years, there have since been seven official sequels, the most recent being 2021’s Halo: Infinite. The franchise has also exploded in popularity with DLC titles, numerous tie-in books, comics and even live-action short films directed by Neill Blomkamp. But what it hasn’t manifested in all that time is a Halo feature, despite the interest of attached talents like Blomkamp, Alex Garland, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro.

Yet making a live-action feature adaptation of Halo remained a serious goal for Xbox Game Studio’s 343 Industries and its executive producer Kiki Wolfkill. As the company’s shepherd of the Halo universe since the early 2000s, Wolfkill and co committed to developing a television series with Steven Spielberg and his Amblin Television seven years ago. After many development delays, including the now ubiquitous Covid disruption, the Halo they envisioned is now a nine-episode streaming series premiering on Paramount+ in the US.

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