Microsoft is making 2 'Halo' TV Series for Xbox One/Live platform, is a movie adaptation coming as well?

Microsoft and Xbox Entertainment have yet to announce a movie based on the popular video game franchise Halo, but they're still willing to milk at least two original television series from it. Last year we heard of a Stephen Spielberg-produced series hitting Xbox Live in 2014, but now second series has just been announced as well!

Variety reports

In addition to a previously announced series with executive producer Steven Spielberg, the programming arm for Microsoft's console is teaming with 343 Entertainment and Scott Free TV for a separate, more modestly budgeted iteration said to be in the vein of the "Halo: Forward Unto Dawn" short-form episodes, which originated on Xbox before getting distribution on other digital platforms. A rep for XES declined comment. The project will be executive produced by Ridley Scott and Scott Free TV president David Zucker.  Sergio Mimica-Gezzan ("Battlestar Galactica") will direct. 

"We aren't Netflix, we aren't Amazon, we're a different animal," Nancy Tellem, Microsoft's president of entertainment and digital, explained last year. "We're neither or we're a little like them. It all depends. The lack of black and white and this is the template and this is what we're following is very difficult. As we continue to do deals everyone's going to get more comfortable."

Read more on the first Halo TV series announcement here!

Some took this new Halo series as a hint at a possible movie, which is a dream of gamers worldwide. There has yet to be an official announcement however, so we shouldn't get our hopes up.

Read more on the gamers wanting a Halo movie HERE!