[Press Release] SHOWTIME has announced that Emmy and Tony
® nominee Pablo Schreiber (
First Man, Orange Is the New Black) has been cast as the lead in the highly anticipated SHOWTIME series
HALO, based on the iconic Xbox
® franchise. Schreiber will play Master Chief, Earth’s most advanced warrior in the 26
th century and the only hope of salvation for a civilization pushed to the brink of destruction by the Covenant, an unstoppable alliance of alien worlds committed to the destruction of humanity. Newcomer Yerin Ha will play a new character within the
HALO world: Quan Ah, a shrewd, audacious 16-year-old from the Outer Colonies who meets Master Chief at a fateful time for them both. The series is produced by SHOWTIME in partnership with 343 Industries, along with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and will begin production this fall in Budapest, Hungary.
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