While the track record is not excellent for video games being adapted for big screen or the boob tube, still many companies want to take a crack of making the most successful live-action film or TV series adapted from a video game. HALO, with a not so good digital series called HALO Nightfall and a planned movie that did not materialize, will be having another shot. This time it will be by SHOWTIME and it will be a pay cable series.

SHOWTIME president and CEO David Nevins announced the network has ordered a 10-episode season on Xbox.com that, “Halo is our most ambitious series ever, and we expect audiences who have been anticipating it for years to be thoroughly rewarded."

Devins further adds, “In the history of television, there simply has never been enough great science fiction. Kyle Killen’s scripts are thrilling, expansive and provocative, Rupert Wyatt is a wonderful, world-building director, and their vision of Halo will enthrall fans of the game while also drawing the uninitiated into a world of complex characters that populate this unique universe.”

Halo Nightfall digital series tralier in 2015. This was produced by Ridley-Scott.

The Halo cable TV series adaptation will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001 and it will be dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. "Awake" creator Kyle Killen will serve as executive producer, writer and showrunner. Rupert Wyatt who was the director of the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will be directing multiple episodes and also act as executive producer.

Kiki Wolfkill, head of Halo Transmedia at 343 Industries said, “This is a truly exciting moment for the Halo franchise. Together with our creative and production partners at SHOWTIME and Amblin Television, the Halo television series will represent new and exciting way for fans to enter and engage with the Halo universe. We can’t wait to share more on what’s ahead.”

The hour-long series will start production in the early par of  2019.

At the Electronics Entertainent Expo 2018 in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed the latest iteration in the HALO video game series, called "HALO Infinite".