The adaptation of the video game franchise, which has been in the works since 2014, will part ways with Steven Kane, the second of its former showrunners, when production on the series in Budapest wraps in a few weeks.
The ViacomCBS-owned premium cabler became the show’s lone home in 2018 with Killen attached as its lone showrunner and Rupert Wyatt set to direct multiple episodes of the 10-episode series.
In making the June 2018 announcement, Showtime’s David Nevins called Halo the cabler’s “most ambitious series ever.” By December of that same year, Otto Bathurst had taken over directing duties two months after Wyatt departed and the show’s 10-episode order shrank to nine.
The merged company then began to focus on bulking up streamer CBS All Access, which was rebranded earlier this year as Paramount+ with a focus on incorporating original content from across the conglomerate’s vast cable portfolio.
The TV series takes place in the same universe that launched in 2001 and will dramatize an epic 26th century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant.