Making a Halo TV show was never going to be easy, and that challenge will lead to some potentially controversial decisions.
The news comes from Gamespot via an interview with IGN where Halo‘s transmedia boss, Kiki Wolfkill, expressed how the production team is aiming to bring Xbox’s most popular shooter to the small screen.
“In a first-person shooter, there is only so much of a character journey because of that wanting to maintain some of that character for people to pour into him or her,” Wolfkill said. “So TV gives us a long form ability to really focus on character and story in a way that’s harder to relay in a first-person game.”
Fair call really. Considering old mate Master Chief is rarely one to dabble in Shakespearean sonnets, there’s going to have to be some work to help flesh the character out.
The problem with that: the fans. During the chat, the former producer of both Halo 4 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection admitted that while a strong fanbase is good, it also presents some challenges.
“…it’s also hard because there are so many diverse perspectives. At some point, you can’t satisfy all the voices. You need to have your own voice,” she said.
“The hope is you can play the game and you can have this sense of who this character is, and you can love that, and then you can stop and put that aside and enjoy this other experience and get taken on a different journey.”
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It’s a valiant goal, and we all know that hardcore video game fans are an understandable bunch, right?
Watch the ‘Halo’ TV show’s original reveal below:
This isn’t the first time the Halo TV show has come into conversation. In fact, the damn thing has been in development since 2013. It was first announced by Steven Spielberg, whose company will help produce the whole shebang.
Orange is the New Black‘s Pablo Schreiber will don Master Chief’s famous helmet when the show airs sometime in 2022. It’s currently set to appear on the 10 All Access, which is honestly is a platform we’d completely blanked on until now.
Halo will join a slate of other game to TV adaptions, with both The Last of Us and Twisted Metal shows also in the works.
