“We’ve got some nice new characters,” Wolfkill enthuses. “We’ve got Colonel James Ackerson – who’s from [the original series’] canon – performed by Joseph Morgan, who’s extraordinary. What’s thrilling about bringing Ackerson in is it’s a personality we get to see in books and in comics, and has at all times been form of a shadowy foil for [Cortana creator Catherine] Halsey… It lets us form of dig into that in a manner that we don’t really expertise within the video games.
“After which we additionally introduce a personality named Corporal Perez, performed by Cristina Rodlo – who we see early in Episode One is a Marine – getting again to that Marine perspective and, once more, how terrifying it’s to see an Elite or Sangheili for the primary time and encounter them in battle. There’s, there’s form of a horror facet to that.”
All of it provides as much as make Season 2 of Halo The Collection a really thrilling prospect – a storyline that helps push ahead an intriguing story for these already invested within the present, and a brand new reflection of occasions from the video games already firmly within the hearts of thousands and thousands of Halo followers. You can begin that journey proper now by streaming the primary two episodes of Season 2 on Paramount+ immediately, with new episodes coming weekly.
To have fun the discharge of Halo The Collection Season 2, Xbox Recreation Go Final members can now declare a 30-day trial to Paramount+.
This interview has been edited for context and readability. It was carried out by Malik Prince.