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Joseph Morgan (The Originals) and Cristina Rodlo (No One Gets Out Alive) have joined the Season 2 cast of Paramount+’s original series Halo, based on the hugely popular Xbox video game franchise. The announcement Wednesday comes as production on the second season has begun in Iceland. Additional filming is to take…

"It's a first-person shooter so you're not meant to know him," says Halo's Pablo Schreiber of the character of Master Chief from the iconic video game. "You're meant to fill in all the subtleties and aspects of his personality with your own, that's the way the character's designed," the past Emmy nominee adds today…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Halo season finale “Transcendence.”  Halo bounces back from a conflicting moment with an action-packed finale that’s reminiscent of the games and sets a new path forward for John, Cortana, Halsey and more. Written by Steve Kane and Kyle Killen, “Transcendence” picks…

Composer Sean Callery said he incorporated themes from Xbox’s iconic Halo video game into his score for the Paramount+ series. However, he added his own themes for the main characters including Master Chief (Pablo Schrieber) and Kwan (Yerin Ha). "It really was born on one person's description of him saying he was…

Halo once was supposed to put Xbox on the map as a place for original scripted programming. Instead, the adaptation of the popular video game is helping to establish another digital platform, Paramount+. According to the Paramount streamer, Halo has set a new record as the service’s most-watched series premiere…

Pablo Schreiber said he struggled getting past the first round of enemies in Halo when he started his research for Paramount+’s upcoming series of the same name. Yes, he sees the irony of Master Chief himself failing to beat the low-tier, trigger happy alien troops known as Grunts. “It’s just a little humiliating…

Editor's note: The Deadline Watchlist is a feature spotlighting small-screen specials, events and can't-miss episodes of ongoing series each week. 1. Oscars: After three years without a host, the Academy Awards are tripling down with Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall set to take the stage and guide the 94th…

Halo executive producers Steven Kane and Kiki Wolfkill joined actors Pablo Schreiber, Natascha McElhone, Jen Taylor, Olive Gray, and Yerin Ha at Deadline’s SXSW Studio to discuss their new series. “We wanted to bring the Halo ethos to a new medium,” says Kane, “and explore this, not only deep but wide canon…. and show…

Master Chief will stay locked and loaded for Paramount+, which has renewed Halo for a second season. The renewal was unveiled during a ViacomCBS presentation on Tuesday. The video game series, based on the widely popular and long-running Xbox  game franchise of the same name, nabbed an early season 2 renewal more than…

Halo, after more than eight winding years in development, will finally land at Paramount+ this spring. The sci-fi drama, which stars Pablo Schreiber as video game icon Master Chief, has gone through a number of hoops to get to the ViacomCBS streaming platform – from switching over from Showtime to Paramount+ to the…

Continuing the ongoing crush of gaming M&A, Sony Interactive Entertainment said it's agreed to buy Bungie, an independent videogame developer and longtime Sony partner behind the Halo and Destiny franchises, for $3.6 billion. The acquisition will give SIE access to Bungie's live game services and technology expertise…

The war against The Covenant has begun in the the full-length trailer for Paramount+’s upcoming Halo series, based on the popular Xbox video game franchise. During the AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals, Paramount+ dropped the latest look at the series, full of Easter Eggs for…