Live-action Halo TV series headed to Paramount+ gets first official trailer

(Pocket-lint) - At agelong last, determination is an authoritative "first look" trailer for the much-anticipated Halo TV bid that was archetypal announced 3 years ago.

First shown during the 2021 Game Awards, it's doubly arsenic agelong arsenic the teaser trailer revealed past month, meaning it's our existent archetypal look astatine the live-action TV adaptation headed to Paramount+. The trailer is seemingly narrated by Doctor Halsey (Natascha McElhone), who is getting Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) prepared to beryllium humanity’s top anticipation successful a warfare against the Covenant.

Halo volition prima Bokeem Woodbine, Olive Gray, Charlie Murphy, Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac, and Kate Kennedy, to sanction a few.

Its archetypal trailer doesn't uncover overmuch else, too a glimpse astatine cities, a elephantine ship, and soldiers preparing for battle. The biggest takeaway is that the amusement appears to instrumentality spot astir the commencement of humanity’s warfare with the Covenant, portion the archetypal Halo crippled is adjacent the end.

This is lone the beginning. #HaloTheSeries streaming 2022, exclusively connected @ParamountPlus. https://t.co/BIoy9kATzY pic.twitter.com/cl7JuapgVc

— Halo connected Paramount+ (@HaloTheSeries) December 10, 2021

The upcoming TV amusement is, of course, based connected the Halo franchise and is enforcement produced by Steven Spielberg and developed and written by Kyle Killen (Fear Street: Part One - 1994) and Steven Kane (The Closer). Set to exclusively debut connected ViacomCBS' streaming work sometime successful 2022, it was first announced successful 2018 arsenic a Showtime series earlier hitting aggregate COVID-19-related accumulation delays.

For much astir Paramount+, spot Pocket-lint's usher here. We besides comparison it to different video streaming services available successful the US here.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 10 December 2021.