Re-Writing the Halo TV Show
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The Halo TV series has been universally hated by Halo fans. It's like the showrunners specifically wanted to avoid staying true to the source material. Like they didn't want to make the show for Halo fans. But what if the show was made for Halo fans? What if we re-wrote the Halo TV series to be actually good? Well, only one way to find out...
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___TIME STAMPS___
The Sales Pitch - 0:00
How To Rewrite the show? - 1:11
Episode 1 - Pillar of Autumn - 5:06
Episode 2 - Halo - 9:11
Episode 3 - Truth & Reconciliation - 11:35
Episode 4 - The Silent Cartographer - 13:46
Episode 5 - Assault on the Control Room - 14:35
Episode 6 - 343 Guilty Spark - 15:22
Episode 7 - The Library - 18:51
Episode 8 - Two Betrayals - 20:11
Episode 9 - Keyes - 22:27
Episode 10 - The Maw - 24:44
Conclusion - 28:27
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The Halo TV series has been universally hated by Halo fans. It's like the showrunners specifically wanted to avoid staying true to the source material. Like they didn't want to make the show for Halo fans. But what if the show was made for Halo fans? What if we re-wrote the Halo TV series to be actually good? Well, only one way to find out...
Hey act Man you should review dante's inferno
Hi Act Man! Love your vids!
Considering Paramount reacted to making the Halo show as an insult, it’s no surprise they wouldn’t even put in the bare minimum of effort to make it an even tolerable show.
the halo tv show is the best cock and ball torture
Season 2 is under way
I still will never understand why they didn’t take each of the original 10 levels of Combat Evolved and translate them in to 10 episodes of the first season. Surely that couldn’t have been difficult.
Because they lacked of passion bro, the same thing that made halo great in the 1st place
Because CE's story wouldn't fit a TV format, Halo's story believe or not isn't the best
@@d27shgu obviously, you would have to adapt to fit the television medium and have more of a story, but I think you could easily frame each episode around each of the levels in the game.
I told my friend the same thing but start with reach for real
@@thebortthe This. It is not that hard at all. The sets can use the levels, the plot beats can do more or less with them after that. The ship scenes would be great stealth, the vehicle levels great action, the flood reveal the horror, it'd be incredibly varied and visually stunning!
All they had to do was follow the story already made.
Why change things that didn’t need to be changed.
A good example is Halseys assistant, he was just creepy trying to kiss a sleeping clone.
That’s what they decide to keep in whilst completely removing Sgt Johnson?
They put woke content in something that was born before that even existed. The outcome, one of the worst videogame tv show adaptations of all time
Lmao this guy
Or they could've just done a three series show based on the Kilo-Five trilogy which would've been 1,000x more intriguing.
All we had to do, was follow the damn story paramount! - Big Smoke
really liked the use of halo 3 ce mod in this vid
No lie, this really made me excited for season 2 of a TV show that doesn't exist
same :(
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@@TheDrigodamusGuess it's a thing now. They're on slate to butcher The Fall of Reach
@idcompany9240 I don't even want to see session 2 of that travis of a show like im worry on how there going to do the flood in the show when they Make their appearance
Bro NEEEDS to do Season 2. That was epic.
It’s crazy that The Act Man was able to portray a better, more captivating story than an entire team of directors producers and writers in 30 minutes
That's because he has actually played the games
I genuinely don't know how Msoft fumbled their flagship series being turned into a TV Show.
It feels like Msoft doesn't care about the series AT ALL and only sees it as an income source. All Halo is to them is a hollow product that produces money. Such a shame that corporate structures are ruled by people in suits that only see dollar signs.
@@csnorth7 Same way they let the new games fumble lol
@@csnorth7that's exactly how they see it unfortunately halo isn't the same copy and paste trash that can be made into 50 different games and resold with different names and skins. Halo always has been and always will be unique. It's a product made by true effort and restrictions that kept it from becoming a hollow piece of trash for a "wider audience". They don't treat a single peice of this game like trash. Not the story, not the characters and above all not the audience. They share something they love. They don't force something they demand you to accept. It's like a healthy relationship. You don't keep coming back because you have to. You do it because no matter the difficulties it will always give you back everything you put into it and sometimes so much more. It gives you a reason to come back. It doesn't try to force you to accept it. It lets you love and hate everything about it.
I disagree. I really dont think staying completely true to CE campaign would be a good idea. It would be better than what we got but still doesnt really translate well and i could see people getting bored.
Still sad we got did so dirty with the Halo show. The writers legitimately took pride in abandoning the source material, games that revolutionized an entire industry and got millions of people to celebrate each release.
Same with the Witcher buddy, it's like they resent established narratives! Like "f*ck this shit, I know best"
And every episode cost something like $10 million dollars. Should've been an anime.
"took pride in abandoning the source material"
That's intentional. When Hollywood uses the source material they have to give the video game writers writing credits and royalties. That’s where all the money is for corporate employees. Hollywood writers want to keep that royalty money for themselves, so they either make up their own new characters or drastically change the original ones. Hollywood turned into a big nepotism and royalty scam.
I don't understand why they would call the show Halo, and then throw out the source material. Call it something else. The source material is the reason it's so popular and beloved in the first place.
Honestly did you expect anything else from Hollywood a place that HATES videogames, and wish all gamers died?
THIS IS LITERALLY ALL WE WANTED. WHY THE HELL WAS IT SO HARD TO GET THIS RIGHT.
It's because people love fire.
Ikr
It's called adhering to 'the message'.
Demoralization planned and executed extremely well by the Jewish elite
There's an agenda at hand ...
I've always wanted a "band of brothers" style of series. Starting with interviews from the "veterans" of the Human-Covenant War. Giving context to those who don't know halo and hinting to future events for those that do. Following a platoon or company sized element that moved from battle to battle, especially on reach or the lead up to the battle of the arc.
They kind of did that with covenant aliens for the ad material for Master Chief Collection they had an interview with a grunt that apparently "Survived every battle the Master Chief fought in"
@sorrenblitz805 Well, the "believe" ad campaign was essentially that, too. They made a mock museum and had older actors play veterans retelling the story of the war and the master chief.
But I'm not looking for a 1 - 3 episode ad campaign. I specifically wanted a full series 1 - 3 seasons (10 - 24 episodes per season) long following a unit of UNSC marines/army troopers. Having very little direct involvement with the Spartans and just focusing on the war itself.
That would have been awesome! The hard part would be trying to write how one platoon survived all the major battles like Reach and New Mombasa. Maybe writing them as ODST so one could say they were highly trained and not just cannon fodder marines. And ODST would pay homage to 101st airborne from Band of Brothers. Very cool idea, if only they cared enough to service the fans.
@DugasPharmacy you could have it start on reach. The lead up and training of the marines, tip of the spear, and then have them get pulled out sometime around new Alexandria in the mid-season. Then we switch to earth and the defense of new Mombasa.
We know that Buck had a similar trajectory, so it wouldn't be far-fetched to say that other units did as well. And just like band of brothers, we would start with a whole company of guys, but it would be quickly whittled down to a handful of familiar faces by the end. The rest being replacements that we acknowledge but don't give a significant amount of time to.
@@Duskraven67 I like that idea a lot!
14:30, you say follow almost exactly the events of the Silent Cartographer level, does that include getting the warthog stuck in the doors that lock on you forcing a detour to open them? Or perhaps this is a moment to incorporate that fan strategy by having Cortana say something like "Wait Chief! The Covenant have rigged the doors to lock if we approach, I can undo it but we'll need to bypass at a nearby- What are you doing" "Improvising." And Chief guns the warthog in barely getting the front end through the doors as the back half is caught and wedged in, climbing out he proceeds with the mission, maybe even tearing the turret off the Warthog and bringing it along.
Just a thought.
Haha nice 👍🏼
nah what If I was TV producer I would do a speed run tactic stuff
Haha... I was replaying halo recently and accidentally did exactly the same thing!
After watching this...make the 2 hour version. This was phenomenal. Somebody get this man a director!
exactly
Or at the very least, give us a Season 2!
Seriously. It upsets me that we got the trash that we got it and this man is over here just laying out the perfect halo TV series..
Agreed
Yes a director and 100 million dollars to actually create it lol
That salespitch was 90% accurate.
You forgot the part where the screenwriters circlejerked eachother afterwards
Well that is a given for all pitch meetings, so not necessary.
If they actually adapted the series successfully. And beyond bill gates would show up again. Maybe in another universe
What he forgot was Kwan. Boy I *wish* I could forget that brat.
He also forgot the part where the screenwriters go “you ready to go smoke crack in the back alley again”.🤪
Idea for pilot episode opening:
Panoramic shot of Halsey explaining to 6 year old John what a quarter is; coin toss scene happens with young LT Keyes in the background. Cut to John waking up from the cryo dream to witness the high octane slaughter as he makes his way to the bridge to the current CPT Keyes. (Quick jump cuts to increase stress/tension) Title screen. Then flash to the hours previous to give context for the random slipspace jump. This would set up depth of Keyes in the story, and allude to flashbacks at key times throughout series.
I have been thinking about this video occasionally for weeks, and I keep getting emotional about how insanely cool that end season sequence would be.
Terrifying how this WASN'T the first idea they had. Thanks for making this.
I honestly feel like they could have made an original story... just not the one we got.
@@g.s.4318 They could've. Honestly, they could basically elevated their current story substantially by not making Chief take off his helmet and getting his dick wet.
@@g.s.4318 ya and involving other characters besides chief like a unique spartan
Yeah, literally shaking and hiding under my bed
Not so much terrifying, more like infuriating that they decided to use as little of the source material as possible.
I think the beginning of the Guilty Spark episode should be shown from Jenkins' point of view to allow the viewer to empathize with him as a combat form, similar to how it was in the book. Everything up until them entering the room is shown through his eyes: them entering the facility, finding the dead elite, and them prepping to open the door. It cuts right before they open the door and we open to another shot of Chief touching down. Then everything continues as usual
Love this idea!
Definitely second that🤘
Ahh yes, and of course this is accompanied by the cliche but effective "X Many hours ago" and then, "present"
EDIT: Also, the opening could be from a regular filming perspective, whereas what Chief sees is from Jenkins' helmet cam, and it's about the same as the game, maybe with a bit more visual and audio distortion for extra dramatic effect
Watching this shortly after watching your review of the Halo Infinite campaign just emphasizes how the recent productions don't really fully understand what makes the IP interesting. It's not just a story about the Chief. It's about how the Chief fits into the larger narrative of the military conflict, the rings, and all of the other characters we have become attached to. It's not about one special person beast-moding his way through hordes of villains like doomguy. While the chief is special, he's just the player's vehicle for experiencing the world.
One major change. Instead of Chief’s armor being damaged by Guilty Spark. It should be damaged by the teleporting and the moment from “The Flood” where Cortana uses Chief’s suit to save his life.
The latter is such a creepy and riveting moment showcasing just how terrifying the flood are, and how capable Cortana is.
Ive never read the book could you explain to me in what situation does cortana have to save cheif using his suit? Im curious.
@@johnleeka3282 a flood infection form latched onto the Chief and pierced his suit by the neck and started to probe it’s way down into his spine. Cortana used the suits shields to emit a powerful electrostatic “pop” that killed the infection form.
@@djanthaz thanks 🙏
Thats pretty cool
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I’ve never seen a corporate meeting done so accurately, and took so long to complete. Amazing rendition Act Man👏
Probably the funniest intro I've ever seen
I really wish he made one character like Quantum TV.. with a bald makeup and threaten to attack another colleague's mom or something over disagreement. XD
long? that was short compared to the BS I used to deal with
but still accurately portrayed how the meeting would go
its funny how a 29 minute video kept my attention more then a single episode of that halo tv show. You know how to tell a story and you should have been the one behind the making of the show. it would have been what the people wanted!!
The problem is he wrote a television screenplay the same way as the video game. That's not going to work
@@cooliostarstache5474last of us: ehm, have missed our entire tv series by chance?
@@cooliostarstache5474 He laid down the general plot, scenarios & characters.
To write down a proper screen play would take months, maybe a year. But it’s 100% possible and it’d be the coolest Halo thing since Halo Reach’s release.
He is a real Fan and he loves Halo. Same would have been for Star Wars 7-9, if the people who wrote those movies would be in touch with the universe they wrote a story in.
I actually wrote a brief film treatment for the 343 Guilty Spark level as its own movie for a class a couple years ago, and it's kinda funny how many themes people who played the games carry over when rewriting the story to a different medium.
The Act just narrated a more amazing story so well that I could literally see it in my imagination with the halo show and halo 4 and 5 level visuals. The power of actual effort and passion
Dude how did you manage to nail and act like the paramount executives? 100% accurate
Yeah, it’s a feat to turn his face into Garry’s mod without Garry’s mod.
Leaked footage.
he is THE act man
@@juanjox2006beat me to it
Yep that’s your basic Jew out of touch executive’s never played halo in their life
Funny how a guy in his room can do a better story than a $10,000,000 per episode funded show
The budget was $40 million
...for the entire season
@@dodshon88 by god
@@dodshon88 call me dumb, but you do mean it was 40 million PER episode for the whole season,? or 40 million for the whole season.
@@hatemaster9131 40 mil for the entire season if im correct, which is laughable. A good adaptation of halo would probably require several times as much which is why it will most likely never be done
@@arianistvanic6772 fucking machinima would be better than what we got
This dude! This! Make Act Man the creative director of the show, clearly knows how to make a actual Halo TV series
My idea would be to adapt "The Flood," "Fall of Reach," or perhaps even "Contact Harvest." I know Contact Harvest isn't focused on Master Chief, but at least it would act as supplementary material that expands the universe of the games and acts as an introduction to the Covenant as a formidable force.
I’m 69% sure that’s how that meeting actually went down man, facial expressions and all😂
And let’s be real, an entire Halo TV show made by Blur studio that follows the events of the games. Simple and a guaranteed success. Really upsetting they took such a smelly shit on such an amazing franchise, had so much potential. Anyways, fire video Kells!
It was actual footage from the meeting, believe it or not!!
If you mean an entire TV series of the Blur cutscene level quality, as much as I'd love that, it's nearly impossible. Those cutscenes are obscenely expensive from my understanding (something approaching a million dollars a minute). You'd need Amazon's Rings of Power level funding to pull that off.
We have halo legends too. a really good halo anime
@@necro4258 This. Current Halo wouldn't even get close to generating the budget needed for a quality animated show. That's why only the really big names (SW, LoL) are able to get away with it.
Reply 5
I literally cried thinking we could have had this be a reality😔
It would have never happened,
Hollywood exists.
I almost cried, it could have been so fucI< ing good and they had to ruin it. I remember even when I was smaller I used to wish they made a halo tv show based on the games and books.
its videos like this that make me wonder why they wont hire people that love and know Halo
Chief deserved better😢
Someone with huge moneh needs to make it a reality
This was incredible! Part 2 please, everyone needs to like the part 2 comments because this idea needs traction!
Honestly this was enough to make me love halo again, now Act Man I need you to become a producer and a director and get on this show right now. This is fantastic 😂🎉
Really like all the flashback ideas. It’s almost like a quiet form of PTSD for the chief to be reminded of when he’s in different situations. Very cool idea
Yeah! Thanks, I think it's a more natural way to fill in the backstory of Chief before hopping back into the present
@@TheActMan right. It’s also a sort of way to subvert expectations of an audience. At first they just think he’s some amazing super soldier who’s very cold and quiet in demeanor until they realize the constant traumatic experiences he’s faced. Would be very cool for new audiences to learn in that way, just piecing together everything
you could even add a couple flash backs to other battles on other planets, like Harvest or Draco III (where Covenant unleashed starving Grunts and Jackals on a rounded up populace)
It could even be like the halo 2 teaser where he has a flashback (triggered by an explosion) and then comes to in the middle of a battle happening. Like moments of shell shock being spaces for memories being shown to the audience (could be referencing training as a child soldier to explain how his reactions to problems become automatic, etc.)
@@MC-uj5gg would be so fucking cool… instead we got master cheeks💀💀
I would love to see another one of these for a hypothetical seasons 2 and 3.
No Season 3.
Aster Cheeks should just drop his pants, light the Halo Rings and moon the audience and it should END there!
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@@Marinealver Not the actual Season 3. Act Man's revisions for Season 2 (Halo 2) and Season 3 (Halo 3). then again, there is so much in the written EU that could fill more seasons than those, like First Strike or Ghosts of Onyx.
Yesssss this was so good
agreed, it’s fun to hear ActMan translate the Halo levels from each game into rough storyboards for a TV series adaptation. Let’s get Halo 2 and 3 next
I would love to watch these hypothetical videos aswell.
Damn you, Act Man! I’m super pumped for this show now! 😂 You nailed it.
Seeing the ship master rock up and capturing keys is a nice touch
The added lore you gave Johnson, foe hammer, chief, etc. felt like I was revisiting Halo for the first time. The emotions that were expressed through each and every episode was simply perfect. Thank you for this!
Only thing that some people may not know is that Johnson is actually married in the lore. Though if they switched up some things with Foe Hammer I wouldn’t mind it too much. Or if the pelican that is downed is actually hers and when we sees her in the cockpit, he comforts her one last time before she passes away.
Same. I feel like playing through Combat Evolved now.
One add on that would be super cool for the maw is adding how chief was nearly infected by the flood, and showing how terrified he was in the moment. Cortana stepping in and saving his life could really add a nice, vulnerable moment that shows more of his humanity and further strengthens their bond together, and they level of trust he has in her.
2 words, ROCKET FLOOD
@@JoJoRogain fuck why did you have to remind them to us hahaha
@@anthonypotamitis7049 because they’re there where you don’t see them. A puff of fire amidst waving flesh in the darkness. Stay lucky.
@@JoJoRogain well said
Love this
Bro what a master this would be 🤌🏻. You definitely have writer and director lvl talent. I would love to see you using these talents on serious projects.
One little idea I had for an episode adapted from _343 Guilty Spark_ (which personally I'd title as _Well Enough Alone)_ would be that Chief finds a lone Grunt deep in the facility. Unlike the game, here, all the Covenant he finds inside are dead, except for this one Grunt. The Grunt is cowering, hiding, crying with sheer fright, and when he sees Chief, he runs over to him, but Chief doesn't fire - the Grunt doesn't have his weapon raised. The Grunt runs to Chief's side, getting behind him, almost like a scared child running to their parent, and points his plasma pistol out front, away from them both. Chief can hear a rattling sound, and he looks down: it's the Grunt's plasma pistol clattering as it trembles in his unsteady hand. The Grunt's eyes are wide with terror.
We've spent all the time up until now seeing how scared Grunts are of fighting Spartans in combat, but now, _something_ has terrified the Covenant so deeply, that this Grunt actually feels safe with Chief. Safe with the one they call Demon. It would drive home that, whatever is in this facility, it's unlike anything the _Covenant_ have faced, let alone humanity.
They had the rights to a story that LITERALLY defined a generation of fps 1st person shooters. What do they do with it? THEY REWRITE! PHENOMENAL WORK KEEP IT UP!!!!
Because the dramatic demands and production logistics of a television series are extremely different from a video game. One of the absolute biggest problem is the sheer amount of action sequences that would be necessary. Action sequences are extremely difficult and expensive to film. For example, the longest battle in any motion picture ever made is 40 minutes long, the battleof Helms Deep, that’s 40 minutes of action over the course of a 3 1/2 hour movie. And all that put together would not be enough to fill up one episode of the Halo show if it just remade CE.
Further complicating things is the fact Halo is science fiction. There are some movies that are basically nonstop action such as “The Best in Hell”, but that movie was made by a private military company with a lot of current stocks of equipment on hand, so it was quite cheap; it’s not like having to craft costumes and armors for all your characters and having to create visual effects for plasma, weapons, having to create convincing, alien environments, and all kinds of prop guns, and so on.
AM and co are just being stupid.
Why did you say fps twice? That's a bit redundant.
@@Mortablunt"hurr durr look at me and my cinema knowledge on the amount of minutes of action in a movie 🤤🤤🤤"
Do you sniff your own farts too buddy? Way to defend AWFUL nonsensical writing by basically saying "it can't all be action". Just shut up, the show sucks on all fronts
Or just.. animated tv show.. those are cool too
The only good idea they had was making it a separate timeline so they didn't muck up the actual Halo timeline.
Imagine if these fuckwits were given access to the main timeline good lord..
I love that "How I would write the Halo show" is just... The plot of the book.
Yeah... because straight plagiarism is such talent. lmao.
The guy is just straight talking shit with zero independent thought or creativity.
And that’s all paramount had to do, but NAH
@@joemama2737 I mean... To be completely honest, the events of Reach are a really good point in the timeline to start if you're trying to make a series. It gives you all the background for the major characters and offers a healthy amount of lead-up to the events of Installation-04. That may be the ONE plus I will ever give the Paramount show.
There's so much expanded universe provided by the books that could have been used to enrich the story developed by the games. It's just aggravating that they not only use NONE of it, but have completely trashed the core timeline, as well.
Not to mention, turning MC's persona as the stoic war machine into... Whatever hot garbage it is now.
@@YodaIzChaos I’m no writer by any means, but sometimes I feel like I may legitimately be a better writer in some areas then the people who make these shitty adaptations
You mean Combat Evolved?
the thought of a marine reaching a hand down to a jackal to help him up is amazing
Im glad to hear you always highlight how awesome the names in Halo are.
im only 4 minutes in and already i feel a void in my soul that can only be filled by act man making the halo show the right way
Season to video would be a W to
They should've just did a CGI show with amazing cinematography. I'd at least pay for that.
*Ahhhhhh This is Disgusting!*
I wished we got Clone Wars but with Halo
This comment made me cringe
Idk about a CGI show.. I love it Love Death and Robots when an episode is CGI but it does pull me out of it a little.
@@C.A._Oldevery Halo cutscene you’ve ever seen is CGI
I would love watching a show covering every mission, every mission can even be two episode arcs. One episode of a pair can be the name of whatever character is being followed, the other can be the name of the in game mission.
We already experienced MC’s perspective, flush out the stuff that happened to other characters and their experience of hearing updates of the overall situation and struggling to figure out what they can do and finding the courage to get it done. As a joke, you can make it everyone’s side quest to get a glimpse of MC. They can lightheartedly have a pool going of who gets to see his face first.
I like the idea of Master a chief to reveal his face at the end of the season. Like the mandalorian he took off the helmet at the end of season 1 and the 2 times that he took off the helmet was for a great storytelling reason
I suggest that a studio hire The Act Man and HiddenXperia, plus some of the other lore boys as consultants for a complete rewrite of the Halo tv show. I’m thinking along the lines of somebody get this man a raise.
I'd love to join that. Halo's lore jas always fascinated me. The books especially
Same. I love the lore
Halo Legends exists
100% agree
Can't, none of them are Union.
BTW there's a Strike going on, we just might be spared from the atrocities of Season 2!
The flirtationship between Foehammer and Johnson is actually brilliant. Doesn't detract from their characters, gives their human side more time to shine, and her eventual death will have such a bigger impact! The audience will have engaged with the charismatic nature of her, they'll sympathize with Johnson, and feel the weight of the Covenant war with such an emotional loss, all while giving a beloved side character some much deserved room to breath! Would be wonderful, too, if her and Cortana had some banter to enhance everyone's charm
I love this. So much.
Put me in, coach! I'm ready to help with the script!!
Honestly the peak of Halo cinema was the Halo 3 period of the believe campaign.
Episode you definitely gotta add marines dealing with wounded soldiers and lost friends. While Master Chief stays focused and moved to the next mission like a spartan does. He carries our fight forward without ever giving up or losing his grip.
Paramount could’ve literally just re-enacted all of CE’s cutscenes in live action and it would’ve been instantly better than what we actually got
They could've done what they did with halo 2 and let blur just make awesome cutscenes into entire episodes. Those graphics (or better) with expanded stories would make a mint.
@@MrGanjie Annndd another commenter who thinks Blur just make their animated projects for pennies. You do realise that a TV show length project of Blur's standard quality would cost *easily* over $1 billion right? Are you gonna fund that?
Dude there is a shortage of writers in Hollywood right now because of the strikes. Actman you should definitely draft a script and storyline for this. You heading this up would be awesome. A massive opportunity. I don’t know how it can be done, but damn does your storyline and ideas sound awesome.
Actually the best outcome we can hope for is Season 2 gets CANCELED!
@@Marinealver They just finished filming season 2. I'll be surprised if the show gets a season 3.
Ehhh this is the same energy of people hyping up game devlopers when they create something in unreal engine.
@@TrixterCharizard true
Agreed. I think all elite gamer TH-camrs should take these woke Hollywood writers places. That way we will be saved from their destructive tyrannical urges to bring all that we love down to the ground for good.
It should’ve started in three time periods that you switch between constantly.
1. The initial waking up of the children that become Spartans.
2. Avery Johnson arriving at Harvest.
3. A Spartan Team fighting against the Covenant until finally suiciding themselves.
Second Episode
1. John navigating his childhood of training - some of the Spartans that died last episode being encountered as children.
2. Avery Johnson and others realise there’s alien contact.
3. Another piece of Spartans - maybe Grey Team doing something and surviving.
3rd
1. John and Co. embark for their armor and start fitting out into them.
2. First Contact goes hostile.
3. The Spartans assemble for the first time in their armor as alarms blare as the Covenant arrive.
This makes things more open ended and valuable commercially with multiple Spartan teams to sell as toys and so on
I honestly loved the re--writing, it had amazing details and really shows how much better a TH-camr/someone who knows Halo could do against writers who didn't really do well.
This was tremendous, we need a video for Halo 2 to see how you would translate the best narrative in the halo series into a film series.
This video does two things for me.
1) It reminds how absolutely awesome the story of CE and the main games are
2) It makes me irritated as all hell that a single fan with a passion for the material can create a better script adaptation than a multi billion dollar media conglomerate.
Imagine what we could've had... Great video Act Man, wish we could stay in that fever dream.
Everything makes sense when you understand it as them using Halo as a vessel to shoot out some DARK & GRITTY not!Star Trek world/setting with some Halo in it. They never intended to appeal to the players, never intended to properly make the world.
This is literally like that old halo movie script, it was a retelling of CE and even had some really cool stuff like a squad of ODSTs torturing an elite for information
Best version:
Chief takes off his helmet in a fight so he can monologue
The halo rings go off since he didn't make it in time
Everything dies and the silver timeline ends.
This dude should have been hired as a consultant for the Halo show
But like the Witcher writers/showrunners revealed, the people making this stuff actively despise the source material and seek to subvert it
Yes
@@SarkkiKarkki but subverting expectations and utterly failing them are two completely separate things
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"Awkshually"
@@CorruptionAura you misread that. They don't want to subvert *expectations*, they want to subvert *the source material*, to lessen it in the minds of the people who have loved it by association with their trash.
Jenkins as a flood, perfect! the torment and desperateness would show how evil the flood is. At the same time giving Jenkins some well-deserved screen time
The worst part. If you read the book. He was awake/conscious while a flood. He could recognize his friends being torn apart by his broken body. And he was taken captive. And on realizing the odst took over a covenant ship that was infected by the flood and going to take it to earth, effectively leading the flood to earth on a silver plate, he attacks the flood mind and takes momentary control of his infected body. He then attacks a marine, takes their grenade, pulls the pins and jumps with it into the fusion core thing of the ship, killing himself and blowing up the ship, preventing the flood from reaching earth before halo 3.
Jenkins is a fucking G and his story as an infected would be such a huge addition to the story/show
I now need you to make a season 2 plot, please I can't live without it now
This fan rewrite was more entertaining than any scene of the Halo TV show.
Literally got goosebumps from your guilty spark episode. Imagine casuals thinking what could possibly make the covenant and humans fight together, not knowing its the flood.
Bro unironically said "casuals." Oh my the cringe 💀
Bro holy shit that’s so true. They would have no clue
@@flametoooth casual audience, you goober
@@flametoooth your comment was the only cringe one at the end of the day
@@flametoooth Seriously, your comment was the only cringe one here at the end of the day
also skull emoji?
I think the script by Alex Garland for a Halo CE movie is still what we should've gotten before all else, it really nailed an actual "fresh take on Halo" by following the same plot and footsteps of the game, but also taking new directions to make it even more gritty, grounded and bloody.
You gotta ask yourself, though - do you really need to reinvent the wheel with this one? Billions of people have never played Halo, and if the story is as good as Halo fans say it is, wouldn't it be better for a TV show to stay faithful to the games and books rather than go in a new direction so the fanbase doesn't get split up?
@@bander960 Annihilation was one of my favorite movies of 2018. They should've just handed the reigns over to Garland. He would've knocked it out of the park
@@Zoroasterisk imagine the flood with annihilations level of make up design. that damn bear is nightmare fuel
@@skyekingmc Exactly. The visuals for that scene were great, but for me it was the sound that stuck out. How they weaved the human screams with the bear's natural roars were really impressive, and I could definitely see that technique used to great effect for the Flood
@@Zoroasterisk god imagine the noises of jenkins screaming for help like that oh god
Personally, if I was writing a Halo tv show, I’d change it up a bit. Instead of doing the original game for the entire season, I’d do Halo Reach for the first season, even throwing in some stuff from the Fall of Reach book. Doing a season where you follow Noble Team, watching the members die throughout the season until you get to the finale with Noble Six’s last stand, you watch as the team you grew attached to throughout the season get killed one by one until they’re all gone. Then, the final scene shifts to the bridge of the Pillar of Autumn as we see Captain Keyes ordering the random jump as per the Cole Protocol, and the final shot is Master Chief in his stasis pod. *Then* I would start the story of the original game in season 2, changing the entire cast(except Cortana, since part of the story or Reach is getting Cortana off the planet, so she can be the thread that connects the season 1 cast to the rest of the show) as if it’s a different show. I think incorporating Reach as the first season, then changing the cast for the remainder of the series, would be an interesting way to surprise viewers(at least, the ones who never played the games). But, that’s just me. I would market the first season as “Halo: Reach”, then season 2 would change the title to “Halo: Combat Evolved”. For season 3 onward, I’d either have to think of new names for each season(because Halo 2 wouldn’t make much sense for a season 3, and same goes for Halo 3 for a season 4) or it would remain “Halo: Combat Evolved” for the rest of the show. I would do it that way so everyone thinks it’s supposed to be a single season miniseries, until the final scene where it teases the story of the original game, leading to fans speculating on whether that means there would be a season 2 and if it would be the first game(there would, and it would) or if it was just a tease and nothing more.
I want to agree with you but I just cant. Part of the power behind Master chief is he embodies the myth that spartans never die. If you start a show with a team of spartans dieing over the season you lose that myth. You almost have to either start with chief and the spartans before the human covenant war, or bounce around through various human victories with the spartans leading the way to forge that myth up. Once you have built them up you can then show that the covenant is a threat even to spartans and you can then build chief up to be a standout even among spartans as his own myth.
@@themasterseye I disagree with you on the myth. We all know that a whole bunch of Spartans died on Reach. But most of those Spartans were a different generation than Chief. Remember, he’s a Spartan II, while Noble Team were Spartan III’s. Showing Spartan III’s die, while Chief, a Spartan II, never dies, *enhances* Chief’s own legend, if you ask me.
How hard would it be for paramount+ to have a genuine halo fan such as yourself to help write the story for the greater good of all halo fans
Johnson meeting Chief in the Guilty Spark facility and Chief being the one to hype him up to escape works way too well. That’s such a perfect way to address A. that Johnson is still alive, which is weird in the games but in fairness he wasn’t a cinematic character yet in CE, and B. it’s a great role reversal that totally makes sense in context, and even kinda builds towards later when Cortana doesn’t know what to do and Chief comes in with the plan like the game.
Chief could even mimic Johnson’s line to a marine from before asking “Are you hit marine?”
Give this man a Grammy or an Oscar for best director and writer… so damn good, HOORA!
An award would do.
Oorah for Marines.
Hooah for Army.🙂
But yes I agree 100%
This was incredible! Like listening to an audio book with visuals. Can you please do a season two?? and three? Seriously, though. Do it!
I doubt this will happen, but I'd love to see how you'd write the rest of the seasons! Would be interesting to see how you incorporate the rest of the games, books, etc (especially stuff like ODST) and what stuff you'd change/cut. Great video as always!
The sales pitch was done to perfection, exactly how I thought the pitch went when Paramount was making this show!😅👍
No, there were men here
You know a show FUCKED UP when you start fanficing entire recreations or rewrites.
I'd like to see the Castlevania team do a trad or mixed animation take on this.
The Halo TV show should've been an anime
@@Unchainedmaple888there was a halo anime lmao
@@nobrick1017 But those were side stories, not the main storyline.
I may have already commented on this video but after a few weeks replaying all the Halo campaigns through again on MCC this video makes me yearn for Actman's Halo show
That comic with rtas and the flood infested covenant ship would be a great episode
I think Chiefs helmet getting removed scene should be to tell Johnson about Foehammer’s fate to allow both of them to have a moment of weakness together.
Xenoblade X jumpscare omg hi
Great idea. When I read this I pictured cheef's helmet being damaged too. Maybe his visor is smashed and you can see one eyes for a bit with sweat and dried blood on his face. Man that would be moving but naaa that took 30 seconds to think of and the writers of this show don't care enough!
@@octavia8836 haven’t changed it since 2015…
Imagine the water cooler talk that would have been created simply by no one knowing who the MC actor was for the first season. I would have laughed so hard with the finale "revealing" his face just like the first game "did."
Dude please do a season 2, I would love to hear you keep going with this
They could also add stuff from novels that show the UNSC side of the story excluding the chief. That way we can show how badass Jenkins was in his last moments at the end. Also, we can show Mendoza as the flood in the same way it happened in the novel. The novel is so good I think they should just stick to that.
Is he the one who destroys the covenant ship that the ODSTs stole.
Being such a halo ce and halo 2 fan, literal chills for that ending even only as just an idea. what a way to mash the two games together for the finale. Awesome writing acting male
High charity in the side view gave me massive chills
I listened to this on my way home and I cried wishing Halo could be this awesome in another life 😢
now halo fans know how star wars fans feel
@@SexyFace yeah, guess we do. It pisses me off so much that they had to ruin it. When I become a billionare I'll buy the rights to this and turn it into something thats actually good
@@matbrownie2797 when you become a billionaire and go through with this, please bring me into it to atleast witness it being produced :)
@@cor2ran will do
@@matbrownie2797, thank you in advance
I think it would cool in the second episode "Halo" where instead of chief going to these two main locations to pickup survivors he encounters them periodically as he is exploring the ring. For example after he leaves the life pod he lands on and he just wanders around while Cortanna tries to make contact with the survivors but you know some of the life pods may not have a way to communicate so as chief is walking away he could encounter a life pod with a few marines and they join up with the chief to go find more. Maybe when he finds those first marines one of them in badly injured and chief has to carry him until they find a warthog or get to a pelican. In between chief finding these survivors you could cut to the covenant that is trying to track the marine life pods as well while they are also trying to figure out if "the demon" is still on board the autumn or if he is on the ring.
The idea of seeing marines jackals and grunts work together against the flood is so awesome
Please do a part 2 and 3 for the entire trilogy 😃
Because there was no love for Halo when *they* did it!
Here's an idea to juuust to add to the drama, confusion and horror of that first fight with the Flood combat forms.
Have the viewers occassionally see the radar in Chief's helmet and have the marine based enemies show up as friendlies.
It might also be good if Chief loses his guns (or runs out of ammo) while trapped with the Flood and has to rely on weapons he picks up from the dead Covenant for the first time in the series. Demonstrates his desperation.
That would be fucking cool. Also to add to the whole Aliens inspiration, have his radar make sound like the ones do in Aliens. Give the viewer some indication of his awareness without directly seeing the screen, which of course, is neatly tucked away inside of his helmet.
I never understood why they didn’t do that in the game for all of the human combat forms. They only did it for that first one.
And have chief hear marines calling for help but have it turn out to be the flood setting an ambush for more humans
Oh man do you know how terrifying it would be to have Friendly IFF tags ping your motion tracker but it's flood forms making a mixture of mindless babbling and gurgling, Gravemind beginning to form thoughts, and the former humans halfway screaming for help? Shivers down my spine imagining it.
bro your videos are always elite, so good to see someone who cares about his craft and not blinded by money and fame. Keep going bro we all love you
Brooo, me and my brother would bawl our eyes out with the intro of your first episode!! 😭😭😭 (how about I'd probably adapt this into a fan fiction stop motion or 3d animation, perhaps??? 👀👀👀)
Dude just the telling of this whole story gets me HYPED to actually watch this. Imagine the turn out for something this masterfully crafted. People would be losing their minds for Halo. Who woulda known the perfect script actually existed in the games already.
It's almost like all they had to do was adapt the game's story, integrate some of the stuff the supplemental material added (I still think an episode of downtime that introduces Alpha Base would've been nice, probably right before TSC) and figure out how to add some chemistry for some emotional investment.
Hey Actman, Screenwriter, and Actor here. I think you made some really great points in this video. I think creating a dynamic Master Chief that works within this story would be very challenging. I Think one of the biggest characters that we could look to is the Mandalorian. Chiefs body language would be 80% of his dialogue. Cortana would carry most conversations, and planning, because she is literally an AI created to help aid in battle. When Chief get's left alone on guilty spark it would make it all the more terrifying to not cortana chatting it up. I'm curious to hear others thoughts on this?
This is exactly what I was thinking. Not having Cortana anymore chatting to Master Chief would be so eerie in a show format. I know it was when I was playing the game. You were truly alone for the first time in the game and it was brutal. I'm sure Chief would talk a little more in the actual show, but still, his body language would be really important.
This is my point too. I think we all have the combat nostalgia. That can't be more than 1/5 1/4 of each episode. It is a tough project. They failed but they did try to address the character issues. Just poorly.
@@greaterfool1176No. Your giving them too much credit. They decided that their audience couldn't be trusted with a laconic protagonist, despite dozens of serious proving it works.
I don't know if it's because they didn't understand the concept, or some executive just wanted to check boxes for prestige TV. Regardless, they didn't want to make a Halo TV show. They wanted to make shitty Expanse.
Guess what The Expanse was a mess but without competing scifi it was able to get away with it. Halo is competing with itself. It didn't have that luxury.
@@userJohnSmith No I don't think I am. I didn't even watch more than highlights because I could tell it was non-cannon trash.
That being said. Peter Jackson. Steven Spielberg and Neill Blomkamp have all failed to bring the project to life. It is a tough IP to work with if you're doing a Chief cannon story.
@@greaterfool1176 Again not really. It's probably been a bigger issue wrangling studios. Chief's a compelling character, simple but full of depth. Look at 4 and 6. Even 343 was able to translate him to the screen well.
This constant obsession with trying to expand Halo beyond what it is tempts people who don't understand the vote story to try and deviate too much. It's a lot like Star Wars legends stuff. Some of it was good, but a lot of it was trash. It would have been a huge mistake to just adapt it.
You gotta do a Season 2 for this alternate Season 1 now. This was great!
This is so great, you managed to do what dozens of “professional writers” couldn’t you actually made a proper season 1 of a Halo TV show, you should make a series of this presenting your own take on other seasons of the fictional, proper Halo show
I took a screenwriting course recently and filmmaking is going to be what I use my university degree for. This…this is how you do a great screenplay.
Showing Chief’s emotions in creative ways without showing his face, using the concept of Chekhov’s Gun with Melissa, the camerawork and effort put into hiding Chief’s face, adding scenes for more context such as Keyes being captured and the workings of the Covenant, and so much more. All of it is amazing.
If I were to give any critiques, I would say that the language of the Covenant needs to be mostly consistent. Use the games as an example for this. I would say it could be confusing to have them speak their native language and also English at times and and also their native language with subtitles at times. I’d say keep English and native language and swap between them only as necessary.
But again, this was amazing to see.
I thought the show Vikings did a pretty good job at this, to be honest. I mean, the first lines spoken are in Old Norse, and then finally, it's English with a Norse/Swedish accent and when the Saxons were introduced, they used Old English
I think the pacing is a little too fast in this version, there are no breaks in the action or personal investments that have time to develop in a lot of the characters. Combined with the cost of doing full action cgi for 10 hours, this script wouldn't work.
@@kielyarger5283 to be fair, this isn’t the whole script, more of an outline.
@Duck-DuckGo Even then it flows too much like an action video game. The closest thing I can relate this to is the movie Crank, and as much as I love that movie, watching it for ten hours every other year would kill my interest in the franchise on around the third episode. If the tv series in its current state hadn't had the name Halo on it, it would have been mostly successful, and mostly was among people who knew nothing about Halo.
Imagine someone writing a story in honor of halo. Two claps for TheActMan you needed to be in those rooms
This is by far the best opening skit for any video I've ever seen. It's the main thing that keeps bringing me back to this video
It’s so funny how the act man was basically like
“Watch actors act the first game while we add some tidbits from extended lore. Otherwise it’s literally the first game with more dialogue”
I love the idea of letting Johnson literally cry as he’s left alone with the plague.
Really shows how even our best can only go through so much.
And literally no one could blame him because in that situation, what the FUCK would be your reaction when even a HARDENED BADASS has his mettle tested and almost fucking *shatters.*
Literally a bunch of us would fit the idea of just following that one soldier's example and blowing our brains out, some might just go into despair-filled catatonia...
I like the part where Chief is just a glorified babysitter for a side character nobody wanted to see past the first scene of episode one.
We need the long cut of this please!!!!!!
The only thing I would add would be some scenes of Chief talking by campfire or somewhere else of him interacting with the marines and showing he is like them and not just some mythical figure they only heard about. Include some jokes about his disconnect with how strong/weak regular humans are to him.
I think the idea of Chief being visibly shaken at his sight of the flood is a great idea, no "Game over man!" Type stuff but I think if this is the first time we hear chief gasp for breath in between bouts of heavy gunfire and flood swarms would be a chilling divergence from his usual stoic attitude to Alien monsters, maybe even perhaps we see the soldier who unalived himself later infected by a flood spore, so many possibilities
The thing is there is a book that details all of this. They could literally just translate the book ‘the flood’ into TV format. It’s absolutely stupid how they went about this. Zero excuse for shows like halo to be so garbage. There’s so much good alternative media to draw from it’s almost impressive how bad they fucked this up.
Genuinely upsets me on how many opportunities were missed. Reading this gave me chills bro I’d be in awe watching it on screen.
I’m totally here for your two hour breakdown. Watching this alone, gave me all the great nostalgia vibes and hope that one day someone will do the source material the justice it deserves.
there's a couple scenes from Halo: The Flood I'd love to see in live action that you didn't include but over all, really good work :D