Halo TV Show's Changes To Master Chief & Spartans Fix Games' Story Issues
The new Halo trailer hints that the backstory of the Spartans and the Master Chief has been rewritten — streamlining the Spartans' backstory and removing one major ethical issue. Excitement is building for Paramount+'s Halo TV series, which will finally introduce viewers to a live-action Master Chief. A new Halotrailer has finally given viewers a glimpse of some of the show's most dangerous villains — and, of course, the Master Chief and his AI, Cortana. The suggested changes to his story have the potential to fix previous story problems with the games.
Although Halo started out as a popular and critically-acclaimed X-Box game, it has expanded into many other mediums over the years, including some popular novels that have fleshed out the backstory of the Master Chief and the Spartans. But the TV series promises to be a completely different continuity, a deeper and more emotionally-invested exploration of Halo mythology. "The hope is you can play the game and you can have this sense of who this character is, and you can love that, and then you can stop and put that aside and enjoy this other experience and get taken on a different journey," Halo's franchise overseer Kiki Wolfkill explained when discussing the Halo timeline. "And see that character in a different way without feeling like it's impeding on the character you already have in your heart around the game."
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The first Halo trailer shows a game-accurate Spartan-117, the Master Chief, played by Orange is the New Black's Pablo Schreiber, and it also introduces Natascha McElhone's Dr. Halsey, the creator of the Spartans. But subtle lines of dialogue suggest the history of the Spartan program has been streamlined
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