Robin Hood director Otto Bathurst signed to Showtime’s Halo series
Showtime has announced it has hired Black Mirror and Robin Hood director Otto Bathurst to direct and produce its forthcoming live-action TV show adapting the popular video game franchise Halo. Production on the project will reportedly begin later this year. It’s the latest development in a notoriously troubled franchise that’s been struggling to get off the ground for more than five years now.
Microsoft first announced the series back in 2013, with Steven Spielberg attached as an executive director. In 2014, word broke that the show was headed to Showtime. After a couple of years of near radio silence, Showtime announced it had greenlit the show for a 10-episode first season. At the time, Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert...