We've never properly seen Master Chief's face in the Halo video games, but that's set to change when the live-action Paramount Plus series debuts next month.
Speaking to IGN this week, Halo's Transmedia boss Kiki Wolfkill reiterated how Master Chief's face will be on display in the new digital series. Of course, the face we'll actually be seeing on screen is Pablo Schreiber - the actor playing 117.
Here's exactly what she had to say:
“You will see his face...For some people, it’s been a moment 20 years in the making, and for other people it is something that feels very hard to imagine. We absolutely respect both sides of that fence, those who really want to see Chief’s face and those who really don’t. But for the nature of this story, it felt really important to connect with the Master Chief in a different way, and that meant showing the face.”
If you would rather not see Chief's face, there's no need to worry - as the live-action series won't be 'core-canon' and is instead part of its own (separate) timeline known as "Halo Silver". This means you technically don't have to watch it to keep up with Halo lore, and that it won't impact the stories told in the games, books, or other forms of entertainment.
The Paramount series has apparently taken this approach in order to protect the series. Halo's first season on Paramount Plus will launch on March 24th and earlier this week was renewed for a second season.
How do you feel about a Master Chief face reveal? Leave a comment down below.
[source ign.com]
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Truly an homage to the games, this is what fans wanted always.
I'm going to check out this series and seeing Chiefs face doesn't really bother me either way
@Xiovanni As mentioned, we've never got a proper face reveal.
I wouldn't really count Halo 4, either. We saw his eyes and that brief shot was only shown if you played on legendary difficulty.
By the sounds of it, this upcoming Paramount series will do a full face reveal and more. I'm guessing they want to give Pablo some screen time without a helmet on.
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It only took one series of Halo to sh*t on the legacy of Halo. Impressive.
@BartoxTharglod It's a Disney+ Mando Season 1 situation for the UK. The series is launching on Paramount+ where available and some channels like Canal+ in France and Sky Cinema in Germany have the rights to those countries. But UK, we have to wait until Paramount+ is released here in the summer to legally be able to watch it. Months after the series will have finished...
Basically, if you live in the UK we get the worst deal again.
Leave it to live action shows to completely ruin video games.
So it’ll be the actors face who we can find out from anywhere? Is that what they are saying? It’s hardly the face of the game character is it, like Tom Holland doesn’t look like Nathan Drake.
@pip_muzz What’s worst about it being on Disney Plus? We don’t get Paramount TV here. Should be grateful it’s not being locked to Sky or Virgin Media.
@S1ayeR74 I specifically mean how when Mando launched on Disney+ exclusive around Xmas but it wasn't available in the UK till the summer as well. So there was no legal way to watch that series until the service launched. Same again here with the Halo series locked behind Paramount+ but the series comes out March and the service doesn't launch till summer.
Edit: The Problem is the TV series will be out for several months before there's a legal way for Brits to watch it. Spoilers everywhere.
It makes sense he would have to show his face at some point in the show. It is pretty charming how you never see his face in the games but the TV show is a different medium that needs the audience to connect to the characters. It's difficult to do with someone wearing a helmet most of the time.
It works for the games because the player can just imagine Chief is themselves thanks to the 1st person perspective. It wouldn't necessarily work for a TV show.
@pip_muzz So based on your info, I assume in Germany I can watch it on Sky, which I don't like much but it is that or joining a crew of privateers. So ...
It is generally a stupid choice of service IMO. Literally, any other streaming service would have been more ideal. But the stars have aligned in this way so we just sit and wait.
@Korgon My point on this is that in the games there is literally no face model for him and he literally has no face. but in a tv series or movie, you instantly know what the face looks like based on the actor (Spoiler Alert 😂) so it doesn't really make a big difference. You know who it is under the suite. Plus, a show like Mandalorian justified it by some extreme religion/creed requirements. However here you can't justify why MC is the only guy who never removes his helmet.
If it's not canon, then it's not Master Chief. Or halo. If they didnt want to depict Master Chief, or halo, as canon, why not start a story of different Spartan.
I always thought the mystery behind his appearance was a big part of the appeal.
People who watch the TV show will think of the actor when they think of the face of Master Chief.
I think this is a very terrible decision.
Do we know who's playing Master chief yet. I assume it'll be the real live version of your generic buff white guy game character though. Personally I hope he has a big moustache or something.
@pip_muzz Oh I see, I understand. Yes I think we should be able to view it at the same time as the US. For the reasons you said. In the pre streaming revolution days which aren’t that long ago.. we wouldn’t have got things like this at all in the U.K.
Inb4 he's black or something.
@Liam_Doolan that made me lol.
He's either Todd Holland or Chris Pratt. You heard it here first.
Or they may go full multi-media and make it Jimmy Fallon.
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