Halo video game franchise to become live-action TV series

Premium cable network Showtime announced the series, which will hope to avoid the fate of previous flawed adaptation attempts

Blockbusting video game Halo is to be adapted into a 10-part live-action series, which will aim to succeed where a doomed film project and a poorly received web series failed.

In an announcement, David Nevins, the president and CEO of premium cable network Showtime, creators of the show, said that it would focus on “an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant”.

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