Halo series adaptation rounds out its main cast

LOS ANGELES The Halo series at Showtime is rounding out its main cast.

The U.S. cable channel says Natascha Mcelhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac and Kate Kennedy have all joined the series adaptation of the megahit video game. They join previously announced series lead Pablo Schreiber, who will play the Master Chief, and Yerin Ha, who is playing a new character named Kwan Ha.

In Canada, the Showtime series is set to stream on Crave.

Mcelhone will star as two characters: Dr. Catherine Halsey, the creator of the Spartan supersoldiers, and Cortana, with the most advanced AI in human history. Woodbine will play Soren-066, a privateer at the fringes of human civilization whose fate will bring him into conflict with his former military masters and his old friend, the Master Chief. Azmi will play Admiral Margaret Parangosky, the head of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

The series will also introduce three all-new characters to the Halo universe. Kalu will play Spartan Vannak-134, a cybernetically augmented supersoldier conscripted at childhood who serves as the de facto deputy to the Master Chief. Culzac will star in the role of Spartan Riz-028. a focused, professional, deadly, cybernetically enhanced killing machine. Kennedy stars as Spartan Kai-125, a courageous, curious and deadly Spartan supersoldier.

Halo will begin production later this year in Budapest and is slated to air in the first quarter of 2021.