{"id":100822,"date":"2018-01-09T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=100822"},"modified":"2018-01-09T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:12:10","slug":"showtimes-halo-live-action-tv-series-is-still-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/showtimes-halo-live-action-tv-series-is-still-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime&#8217;s Halo live-action TV series is &#8220;still in development&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever caught yourself wondering what happened to Showtime&#8217;s live-action\u00a0<em><strong>Halo<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0TV series that was announced way back in 2013, we have some news for you: it&#8217;s still happening, we just don&#8217;t know when.<\/p>\n<p>Showtime president and CEO David Nevins recently confirmed that active development is still very much ongoing.\u00a0Speaking at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/news\/halo-tv-series-steven-spielberg-showtime\/\">Television Critics Association<\/a> winter press tour, he said that Halo &#8220;is absolutely still in development, still moving forward and I&#8217;m encouraged by what we&#8217;ve seen so far&#8230; It&#8217;s still live action, and it will definitely satisfy the fans of Halo and I think also satisfy the drama audiences of Showtime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project won&#8217;t be the first live-action series inspired by the video game: 2012&#8217;s film\u00a0<em><strong>Forward Unto Dawn<\/strong><\/em> was divided into 15-minute episodes and released as a webseries, with 2014&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Nightfall<\/strong><\/em> following the trend.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Nightfall<\/strong><\/em> starred Luke Cage actor Mike Colter, and acted as an origin story for new\u00a0<em><strong>Halo<\/strong><\/em> character Agent Jameson Locke. Showtime&#8217;s show will be the first live-action series destined for television.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled\u00a0<em>Halo<\/em> series doesn&#8217;t yet have an air date. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime&#8217;s live-action Halo TV series is still happening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":100823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[1031],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/halo-6-update-343-industries.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}