Halo TV Show's New, Non-Game Timeline Explained By Executive Producer
Executive producer and franchise creative director Frank O'Connor explains the Halo television show's new, non-game timeline. What began as a science-fiction video game series created by Bungie for Xbox has now morphed into a massive media franchise managed by 343 Industries that includes best-selling novels, comic books, web series, and other media. The latest entry into the video game series, Halo Infinite, was released on December 8 and helped build anticipation for the first television adaptation coming to Paramount+ sometime early this year.
While plot details for the Halo series are slim, it will chronicle an epic 26th-century military conflict between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant, a theocratic alliance of multiple advanced alien species. Pablo Schreiber has been cast in the lead role as the beloved Master Chief, a supersoldier whose codename is Spartan 117. Jen Taylor voices his trusty AI sidekick, Cortana, reprising her role from the video game series. Natascha McElhone will take on the role of Dr. Catherine Halsey, a UNSC scientist who created the Spartan-II Project.
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Now, in a new debriefing released by the official Halo Waypoint website, executive producer Frank O'Connor explains the Halo TV show's new independent timeline, which has been dubbed the «Silver Timeline» in reference to the central Spartan fireteam and the silver screen itself. O'Connor explains that the Silver Timeline allows them to use the "existing Halo lore, history, canon, and characters" whenever it suits the show, and also ignore it whenever necessary. O'Connor goes on to clarify that the game and TV show timelines will be very similar and at times parallel,
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