{"id":37893,"date":"2012-05-16T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37893"},"modified":"2012-05-16T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:04:51","slug":"halo-4-live-action-series-pushes-forward-unto-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37893-halo-4-live-action-series-pushes-forward-unto-dawn","title":{"rendered":"Halo 4 live-action series pushes &#8220;Forward Unto Dawn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading towards the November release of Halo 4, the sci-fi franchise will be getting a live-action series in preparation of the big launch.<\/p>\n<p>The digital series will be released through a soon-to-be-announced Machinima <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20971-YouTube\">YouTube<\/a> channel.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled &#8220;Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn&#8221;, the series will be produced by Microsoft which will consist of five 15-minute shorts, each telling an original story about the how Master Chief inspired a young UNSC cadet to become a leader aboard the largest UNSC vessel, the Infinity.<\/p>\n<p>The character of the young cadet will tie directly into the plot of the new game. Full details about the story, cast and director will be announced at Comic Con in July.<\/p>\n<p>The project marks the company&#8217;s biggest live action investment ever put towards a game, despite <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36404-halo-movie-inactive-due-to-microsoft-greed.html\">little greedy<\/a> with a big-screen Halo adaptation deal.<\/p>\n<p>The series is set to debut this October.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Halo 4 news coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/tag\/halo-4\"><strong>All Halo 4 news coverage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Halo 4 Limited Edition announced, SA pricing revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37885-halo-4-limited-edition-announced-sa-pricing-revealed.html\"><strong>Halo 4 Limited Edition announced, SA pricing revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Halo 4 multiplayer details blowout\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37889-halo-4-multiplayer-details-blowout.html\"><strong>Halo 4 multiplayer details blowout<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37724-halo-4s-box-art-emerges-thanks-to-fans.html\">Halo 4&#8217;s box art emerges thanks to fans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/images\/36514-shiny-new-halo-4-screenshots.html\">Shiny new Halo 4 screenshots<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"New Halo 4 Multiplayer details revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35619-new-halo-4-multiplayer-details-revealed.html\">New Halo 4 Multiplayer details revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36404-halo-movie-inactive-due-to-microsoft-greed.html\">Halo movie inactive due to Microsoft greed<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Halo 4 is in good hands says ex-developer Bungie\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33198-halo-4-is-in-good-hands-says-ex-developer-bungie.html\">Halo 4 is in good hands says ex-developer Bungie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans can prepare for the Halo series, and it&#8217;s not a sitcom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":37894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57,255,4349,4350,2548,91],"class_list":["post-37893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-343-industries","tag-halo-4","tag-halo-4-forward-unto-dawn","tag-halo-live-action-series","tag-machinima","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37897,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions\/37897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}