{"id":2263,"date":"2022-02-02T03:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2022\/02\/02\/why-the-halo-franchise-took-17-years-to-break-free-from-the-video-game-medium\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T03:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T02:02:18","slug":"why-the-halo-franchise-took-17-years-to-break-free-from-the-video-game-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2022\/02\/02\/why-the-halo-franchise-took-17-years-to-break-free-from-the-video-game-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the &#8216;Halo&#8217; Franchise Took 17 Years to Break Free from the Video Game Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/halo-franchise-adaptation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/halo_the_series.jpg?itok=qHRI-5nl\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2001, <em>Halo: Combat Evolved<\/em> broke onto the game scene, beginning a franchise that is now a multimedia powerhouse. But the journey to get a <em>Halo<\/em> series or movie made has been perilous.<\/p>\n<p>\nTime for a history lesson.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe original <em>Halo<\/em> game was created by Bungie and released for the Xbox console in 2001, even though initially it was meant for release on macOS and Windows.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was a critical and commercial success when released and followed the exploits of a cybernetically enhanced soldier named John-117, a Master Chief Petty Officer of United Nations Space Command.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe basic premise is that players take control of Master Chief and kick alien butt. The story was a well-written romp that has been expanded over the past 20+ years into an epic space opera.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJumping over 20 years after its release,<em> Halo <\/em>the series is coming to Paramount+ on March 24, 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/halo-franchise-adaptation\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Author: Yaroslav Altunin<br \/>\nThis article comes from <i>No Film School<\/i> and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/halo-franchise-adaptation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>read on the original site.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001, Halo: Combat Evolved broke onto the game scene, beginning a franchise that is now a multimedia powerhouse. But the journey to get a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[38,37,43,42,39,40,44,41,36],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-news","tag-editing","tag-film","tag-guide","tag-info","tag-news","tag-tips","tag-topics","tag-tricks","tag-video"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Brokenmount","author_link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/author\/sysop\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/category\/video-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Video and Film News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"In 2001, Halo: Combat Evolved broke onto the game scene, beginning a franchise that is now a multimedia powerhouse. But the journey to get a&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}