'Halo' Sets Season 2 Premiere Date At Paramount+, Releases Trailer At CCXP

Paramount+’s own FPS adaptation is returning in early 2024

Just as Prime Video brought its Fallout adaptation to CCXP in Brazil, Paramount+ brought season 2 of their Halo series there, or at least was armed with enough to showcase about it.

With stars Pablo Schreiber and Joseph Morgan, showrunner and executive producer David Wiener and fellow executive producer Kiki Wolfkill in attendance, the streamer announced that the video game adaptation’s second season will premiere on February 8, 2024. Said second season will see Master Chief John-117 lead the elite Spartans against the Covenant aliens. A game-changing occurrence on a desolate planet leaves John wholly aware of how new a direction the war will take. He believes the Covenant are preparing an assault on “humanity’s greatest stronghold”, but finds no one will believe him. With the fate of the galaxy in the balance, John embarks on a journey to find the Halo, key to deciding humankind’s future toward salvation or extinction.

Based on the Xbox game franchise that began in 2001, the Halo series stars Schreiber as Master Chief, alongside Californication‘s Natascha McElhone as Dr. Halsey, Jen Taylor reprising Cortana, her role from the games, Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Olive Gray, Yerin Ha, Bentley Kalu, Kate Kennedy, Charlie Murphy, and Danny Sapani. In addition, there’s Laera, played by Fiona O’Shaughnessy, is Soren’s confidant, wife and partner in crime. Their son Kessler, played by Tylan Bailey, has had a childhood described as peaceful if a bit unusual living on the Rubble. Morgan, best known as Klaus Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, is actually one of this season’s new cast members, playing James Ackerson, a dangerous intelligence operative who has climbed the ranks of the UNSC’s secretive Office of Naval Intelligence his entire professional life. Intelligence. Cristina Rodlo plays Talia Perez, a recent recruit to the UNSC Marine Corps who hasn’t seen combat action yet. She is a corporal specializing in linguistics for its communications unit.

Schreiber and McElhone are also series producers, with season 2’s class of executive producers including Wiener alongside Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin Television. Wolfkill’s executive producing is for Xbox/343 Industries, with Otto Bathurst and Toby Leslie for One Big Picture and Gian Paolo Varani. Watch the trailer below.

Source: Deadline