Improved critical reception to season two wasn’t enough to save the show.
The long gestating TV adaptation of hit videogame series Halo is bowing out on Paramount Plus after two seasons. The best Paramount Plus show, which followed Pablo Schreiber’s Master Chief John-117 during a 26th century war between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant, had a troubled development process, with Steven Spielberg first discussing a film adaptation in the mid-2000s.
Things finally got moving with the TV version a decade later, with an announcement made for a 2015 premiere on Showtime, which was then delayed to 2019, with Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt on board to direct and Kyle Killen as showrunner. By the time the show made it to air in 2022, it had moved to Paramount Plus – you could also find it on YouTube – Wyatt had been replaced by Peaky Blinders’ Otto Bathurst and Steven Kane had come on board as co-showrunner.
