The upcoming Halo TV show will not take place in the timeline of the video games, and instead uses a newly formed “Silver Timeline”. Despite this, the show is still “rooted in canon” and will feature everything you’d expect from the story of Master Chief’s fight against the Covenant. It just comes from a “different perspective”.
As part of IGN Fan Fest 2022, Halo’s executive producer and 343 Industries’ Studio Head of Transmedia, Kiki Wolfkill, said: “The Halo Silver Timeline is about giving the show and the core canon room to grow, evolve, and be what they need to be. Really think of the Halo Silver Timeline as being rooted in canon, so events and characters and certainly all of the things you see in canon are all part of the show, but sometimes you will see those events from a different perspective.”
“There are times and places where we’ve had to pull events closer together than they may be in the [original] chronology, and that’s a good example of where the context will maybe shift a little bit, but it should feel very Halo,” she elaborated. “At the end of the day the core of Halo are those pillars of heroism and humanity and the wonder of sci-fi and hope. All of those things are core to what we’re doing. It’s a case of when people watch the show it will feel Halo and there will be a lot that they recognise verbatim, and a lot that will feel a little bit different just so the narrative has a chance to go where it needs to go without colliding with some of the core canon.”
One of the things that will diverge from the game’s original canon is that we will actually see Master Chief’s face. In the games, the SPARTAN never publicly removes his helmet.
While the Silver Timeline means the Halo TV show is free to take its own approach for some aspects, plenty of nods to the games will be included.
“There are a lot of Easter eggs in there, and it was a lot of fun putting them in,” said director Otto Bathurst. “We had an incredible team, particularly in production design and the graphic designer, who has absolutely taken it to the n-th level. So I’m going to put my neck on the line and challenge you to freeze frame and zoom in.”
The Halo TV show will premiere on March 24, 2022 on Paramount+ in the US. For more, check out our extensive trailer breakdown and the entire cast revealed so far.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer.
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