Halo Season 2 Begins Filming, New Cast Members Announced

Season 2 of Halo is now in production. After the first season of the video game adaptation premiered on Paramount+ in March, it became an instant success, drawing huge viewers to set the record for the most-watched series premiere in the streaming platform’s history. Overall, Season 1 was the second most-watched original series on Paramount+, after only the hit western series 1883.

Paramount+ executives expected a good result, because Halo had already been renewed for season 2 prior to the premiere of the first season. The show is on Wednesday official Twitter page posted an image of the cast on set in Iceland for their first day of filming in Season 2. You can check out the post below.

The tweet reads: “The Spartans have landed in Iceland! #HaloTheSeries Season 2 is now in production.”

The cast of Halo starring Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, aka simply Master Chief, the playable protagonist from the original video game. The series also stars Natascha McElhone, Jen Taylor, Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Olive Gray, Yerin Ha, Bentley Kalu, Kate Kennedy, Charlie Murphy and Danny Sapani. Tylan Bailey and Fiona O’Shaungessy are going to be the regulars of the series after returning in Season 1.

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Halo gets some new cast members for season 2

Meanwhile, per Deadlinehas also been revealed that some new cast members have joined the cast of Halo for its second season. As regular customers of the series come Joseph Morgan (The originals) and Cristina Rodlo (No one comes out alive). Morgan plays James Ackerson, a “formidable intelligence agent who has spent his career climbing the ranks of the UN Security Council’s secretive Office of Naval Intelligence.” Rodlo’s Talia Perez is “a corporal specializing in linguistics for a UN Security Council Marine Corps communications unit and a relatively new recruit who hasn’t seen actual combat.”

Halo season 2 is executive produced by showrunner David Wiener, Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin Television, as well as Kiki Wolfkill, Frank O’Connor and Bonnie Ross of 343 Industries and Otto Bathurst and Toby Leslie for One Big Picture. Showtime is producing the series in association with Amblin TV and 343 Industries.

The first season of Halo streams on Paramount+. Season 2 doesn’t have a premiere date yet.