A new trailer for Halo reveals Master Chief ordering troops to battle and a sprawling backstory in the new Paramount+ series. Based on the Microsoft game developed by Bungie, Halo follows the exploits of Master Chief, a Spartan soldier in the future battling in an interstellar war with a group of aliens called The Covenant. The Halo game series is one of the best-selling Xbox titles of all time, selling more than 81 million copies to date, with the latest iteration, Halo: Infinite, having just been released in December of last year.
The Halo series stars Pablo Schrieber as Master Chief, a.k.a. John-117, Jen Taylor as Cortana (who voiced the character in the game series as well), Natascha McElhone as Dr. Catherine Halsey, Bokeem Woodbine as Soren-066, Shabana Azmi as Admiral Margaret Parangosky, Yerin Ha as Quan Ah, and Charlie Murphy as Makee. Halo is created by Steven Kane (The Last Ship) and Kyle Killen (Mind Games), and Killen will exit the show after Halo season 1, leaving Kane as the sole showrunner. The series has already been renewed for a second season by Paramount+ showing strong faith in what they have thus far.
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Now, a new trailer for Halo has dropped from Paramount+, which teases a sprawling backstory for John-117, as well as the rest of the cast, which gives the show more of an ensemble feel, rather than just a Halo show about Master Chief. There are a number of locations, characters, weapons, vehicles, and aliens from the franchise teased throughout the trailer, including a first look at the live-action Covenant Empire aliens. The finale of the trailer has Master Chief ordering the Silver Team into action, which is an ode to the new timeline
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