The discussion surrounding the Halo television series could have been passed off as a joke a few years back seeing that literally no visible progress has been made for the show since its debut alongside the Xbox One back in mid-2013. But following the announcement of the project being part of the Showtime network, things began to look more structurally sound for the prolonged show.

Now in a recent report, the casting for the upcoming series has been revealed detailing who will be casted alongside Pablo Schrieber who has already taken the role as Spartan 117. Answering the burning question of who will be playing Master Chief’s accompanying AI, is has been announced that Natasha McElhone (Californiacation, Solaris) will be playing the part as Cortana.

Regarding the remaining actors for main cast, the report lists Shabana Azim, Natasha Culzac, Bentley Kalu ,Kate Kennedy, and Bokeem Woodbine. Azim casted to play the role as Margaret Prangosky, the head of ONI, while Woodbine takes the role for Soren-066 who is an “old friend” of John-117. As for the remaining Culzac, Kalu, and Kennedy, the actors will be given new roles created unique for the upcoming show.

Each of the new characters alike Master Chief will be augmented supersoldiers who were destined to follow in the showdown of the protagonist: Culzac to play Spartan Riz-028, Kalu as Spartan Vannak- 134, and Kennedy for the role of Spartan Kai-125.

The report nears it end by disclosing that production is slated to begin at a later time in 2019. With ten episodes scheduled to release for the video game-adapted series, the estimated air time for the show is said to be sometime in Q1 2021. Translating from beginning of the fiscal year, the soonest we could see the Halo series will be in March and the latest is May of 2021.

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Source: Variety