AGnBCS said:
Reading the cast and characters I'm a little worried. Seems like this is going to be a very original story which means we are going to get a very non canon "take " on the subject material. Not to go all Critical Drinker ( a funny YouTube reviewer) but why would you rewrite the source material? Halo mythos is what has kept its fan base so loyal and always hungry for more content . Then again I enjoyed many of the differences Cowboy Bebop had from its anime predecessors but we see how that worked out among the masses .
I guess we will have to just wait and see .
It will likely be crap. Hollywood loves to find ways to make genocidal aliens of humans look good and make humans look bad despite the source material saying this was entirely and 100% the fault of the Covenant.
I fully expect we will get some "Not all Covenant" and "we should be more understanding of their need to genocide us".
In Halo canon, the Covenant never took prisoners. It was a death sentence to be captured where you were shot immediatley, eaten alive by brutes, or worse. The idea of them taking prisoners is a slap in the face of the original material.
Hollywood is so bad now they would find a way to make the Chaos Gods in Warhammer 40k or Doom's Hell look sympathetic instead of the absolute evil incarnate that they are in canon. "You see this is ackchyually an allegory for racism and you are viewing them through a human specific viewpoint and therefore you should see their eternal torture of human souls from their perspective!"
Edit - When both 4chan and Reddit are saying the story is going to be absolute garbage, it's a near certainty that they have ruined it completely. This won't be Halo at all, just some random show with a Halo skin.
For an example, the main antagonist is apparently not going to be the Covenant at all but some random human raised by the Elites. This is apparently the best of the leaks. I've actually not seen one single good aspect of the story at all from the leaks.