Steve Kane, showrunner of Paramount+’s live-action Halo series, will exit the project after its freshman season is produced.
The road for the television adaptation of the beloved Xbox video game franchise has been a long one with numerous turns. Kyle Kinnen was originally set as co-showrunner alongside Kane when the series was picked up by Showtime in 2018. He left before production.
Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt was set to helm the series, but in December 2018, he exited the series due to a conflict, Showtime’s Gary Levine revealed. Months later Showtime revealed it has enlisted Otto Bathurst to fill Wyatt’s role. Earlier this year Deadline learned exclusively that the series moved to Paramount+.
Kane took the job in 2019 and it was expected he’d be in Budapest for around seven months, but due to Covid and production delays, he spent nearly two years off…
