“The biggest challenge was getting 1,000 people on the same page to make the same show,” he says of the massive, multi-year undertaking. It’s never done until it's actually shot and then, of course, you have a lot of editing where you change it again,” Kane smiles. you end up writing sometimes 10, 20 drafts of one script because you're constantly either adapting or getting new, cool ideas that you want to include. You write your script, all these meetings come up, ideas come up, you change your script because you have a new idea or limitation because of the location. That's not normally my process,” says Kane, who was writing multiple episodes at once to keep on production schedule. Showrunning one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all timeįrom independent film and theatre to showrunning TNT’s The Last Ship and working on Jack Ryan, Kane was a writing force that could rival Master Chief on the field: “I found myself writing sometimes 12 - 13 hours a day just to keep up. Their names are still mostly on the scripts because I wanted to make sure that their work was acknowledged, even if I went a different direction.” then added some of my own to make the show what it is today. Kane is the first to credit those that came before him on the show, saying, “Kyle laid the groundwork for sure, the central concept and conceit of the season was from the work he and his team had done and I redeveloped and then broke off from there, and honored as much as I could. They entrusted Kane with seeing through the vision when original showrunner Kyle Kinnen left. The latter is particularly fitting, since Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is one of the companies behind the show, along with 343. Halo is up there with the DC Extended Universe, Mortal Kombat, and Jurassic Park. We would ask ‘is this appropriate for the canon?’ It’s almost like taking someone’s life story and saying, can we draw from it? And then take some creative liberties, but always honor the spirit of the game and the stories.”Īnd the canon is extensive. “That said, you walk in knowing you’re going to make a lot of people angry, and a lot of people happy, and hopefully make more of them happy than angry. And so, there was a deep well from which to draw,” says Kane. So, they always thought of it as a story about people living in this alternate timeline, doing these crazy things, fighting aliens, and whatnot. The game came with a novel, graphic novels, and a whole Halo extended universe. Because it's really about-whether it's the future or an alternate universe-how it affects us as people. " I always believe that sci-fi should be grounded in humanity. Honoring Halo canon: From Xbox to the big screen
For the uninitiated, Halo is an epic battle between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant in the 26th century.
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Steven Kane serves as showrunner on Paramount+’s new series and it's raking it in for the streamer. The rest of the world is discovering what gamers have known for two decades: Halo isn’t just a great first-person shooter game that launched a billion-dollar franchise, it’s sci-fi at its best.
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