Showtime’s upcoming big budget Halo series is going to be a lot like the iconic video game and different in very strategic ways, the premium cabler’s Entertainment president said today.
“There’s all kinds of new drama that we will be exploring but we will stay faithful to the canon,” Gary Levine told Deadline Friday at TCA of the Pablo Schreiber-led small screen version of the well-played Xbox franchise “We’re not going to violate anything that’s in the canon.”
Finding that balance is essential to Showtime to sidestep the littered legacy of successful video games that have become garbled in translation in their big and small screen adaptations.
“We’ve been lucky to have 343 Industries working with us every step of the way,” Levine added of the Microsoft-owned Halo developers. “They’ve been a great resource for suggesting things that we weren’t aware...
“There’s all kinds of new drama that we will be exploring but we will stay faithful to the canon,” Gary Levine told Deadline Friday at TCA of the Pablo Schreiber-led small screen version of the well-played Xbox franchise “We’re not going to violate anything that’s in the canon.”
Finding that balance is essential to Showtime to sidestep the littered legacy of successful video games that have become garbled in translation in their big and small screen adaptations.
“We’ve been lucky to have 343 Industries working with us every step of the way,” Levine added of the Microsoft-owned Halo developers. “They’ve been a great resource for suggesting things that we weren’t aware...
- 8/2/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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