After silencing critics with a brilliant first season, the team behind Paramount+’s HALO are getting back to work. A new still from the set has revealed that production is now underway on the previously confirmed second season.
The HALO series is based on the best-selling video games of the same name and chronicles the 26th century war between the United Nations Space Command and the league of alien races known as the Covenant. Leading the charge is Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 (Pablo Schreiber), a super-soldier who commands the elite unit known as Silver Team.
Here’s the Spartan team, in full on the set preparing for cameras to roll:
Additionally, Deadline has confirmed that Joseph Morgan and Cristina Rodlo are joining the cast of season 2. Morgan will play an intelligence offer named James Ackerson, while Rodlo will star as a marine corporal named Talia Perez.
During the UK launch of Paramount+ we had the chance to sit down with Master Chief himself alongside Natascha McElhone and executive producer Kiki Wolfkill to discuss the series:
Dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, Halo the series will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future. In a war for humanity’s very survival, our deadliest weapon is our greatest hope. See Master Chief, Cortana, the Covenant, and the other Spartans of Silver Team more in this epic trailer for the new Paramount+ Original Series, Halo. Find the Halo, win the war.
Halo stars Pablo Schreiber as the legendary Xbox character Master Chief Spartan John-117; Natasha McElhone stars as Dr. Halsey, the creator of the Spartan super soldiers, and Jen Taylor stars as advanced human AI Cortana. Other stars signed up include Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Olive Gray, Yerin Ha, Bentley Kalu, Kate Kennedy, Charlie Murphy and Danny Sapani.
Stream the full first season on Paramount+ now.
