Halo Television Series Announced May 22, 2013

In a very surprising move, yesterday at the Xbox One Reveal Event, 343 Industries made a very interesting announcement.  A Halo TV series is in development, with help from the very famous director Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Jaws).  I think this is a great move, as Steven has worked on some very gritty war-related projects in the past included Band of Brothers, and The Pacific, and a realistic war style could work perfectly in a live-action Halo series.

Details were scarce on story, however the promotional image shown during the event featured the tagline “Wake up, John”, which is a very clear reference to the Master Chief at the beginning of Halo 4.

From the looks of it, while produced for TV, this series will likely be broadcast exclusively through Xbox Live, and not cable or satellite.  This looks to be a similar distribution system to what shows like Arrested Development are doing, which is produce new episodes exclusively to air on streaming services like Netflix.  This will probably be a perfect fit for Halo, and the Xbox One, as Xbox One has greatly expanded on the Xbox 360’s streaming television functionality, and will likely offer an internal cable or satellite box for digital cable/sat subscribers.