Master Chief Will Be The Protagonist Of Halo TV Series, What Is Its Story About?
Halo TV Series has been announced to be coming to screens sometime in 2020. We still don’t know much about the cast for the series or its story altogether, however, we now get to find out that the protagonist will be Master Chief, the most iconic character in the franchise. Let the hype train begin!
During Showtime’s panel at the TCA press tour, Showtime Networks president David Nevins and president of programming Gary Levine confirmed that Master Chief will be the lead for the Halo TV Series, without giving out any spoilers about the setting of it.
As Gamespot correctly asked, this is one of the very few times we see the protagonist of a series being masked. Master Chief never showed his face during the franchise’s life and unmasking him would mean the reincarnation or the death of the series ultimately. Levine pointed out:
“It is a key question and an important part of our series is all I’ll say”
“It is futuristic space-based science fiction. It is not fantasy. I think there’s been one iconic franchise in my opinion in the history of television in that category and that’s Star Trek. Probably 10 or 12 of the top 20 movies of all time are futuristic sci-fi and, weirdly, television hasn’t turned up those kinds of franchises.”
Additionally, they revealed that they are workinh closely with Microsoft and 343 Industries to ensure that they don’t violate the baseline of the canon:
“We made a conscious decision to hire a writer not known for sci-fi and not known for big battle movies or anything. Because that’s already baked into the Halo franchise and we will service that. But we also want to ensure that we get underneath the formidable armor of the Spartans.”
Seeing Halo having its own TV Series along with a new exciting addition to the franchise in the form of Halo Infinite is huge for both developers and fans. We hope both of them will turn out to be the stepping stone for the franchise to reach its next high point.