Halo video game franchise to become live-action TV series

Blockbusting video game Halo is to be adapted into a 10-part live-action series, which will aim to succeed where a doomed film project and a poorly received web series failed. In an announcement, David Nevins, the president and CEO of premium cable network Showtime, creators of the show, said that it would focus on "an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant". It has struggled, however, when film-makers and TV executives have tried to adapt it for the screen. A mooted film was to be directed by Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro and then Neil Blomkamp, with a script from Ex Machina's Alex Garland, but it failed to materialise. Halo 4 followed a "TV structure" with daily mission episodes free to download for players.