Master Chief will be a "lead character" in Showtime's upcoming Halo TV series, Showtime President of Programming Gary Levine tells IGN. The series is such an enormous undertaking, the premium cable network is aiming to air the series in 2020.
During Showtime's panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Levine and Showtime President and CEO David Nevins shed some light on the hotly-anticipated adaptation, which they declined to call their attempt at replicating the success of Game of Thrones.
"It is a very different genre, it’s futuristic, space-based science fiction, it’s not fantasy," Nevins pointed out. "It took us a long time to get the script but we felt like we had something that was really interesting and felt like it belonged on Showtime in terms of its character depth, and it’s gonna be a big show."
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During Showtime's panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Levine and Showtime President and CEO David Nevins shed some light on the hotly-anticipated adaptation, which they declined to call their attempt at replicating the success of Game of Thrones.
"It is a very different genre, it’s futuristic, space-based science fiction, it’s not fantasy," Nevins pointed out. "It took us a long time to get the script but we felt like we had something that was really interesting and felt like it belonged on Showtime in terms of its character depth, and it’s gonna be a big show."
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