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Series overview

Series:

Halo: The Television Series

Season:

Season Two

Episode specifications

Episode:

02

Air date:

February 8, 2024

Run time:

46 minutes, 12 seconds

Production information

Director(s):

Debs Paterson[1]

Writer(s):

Ahmadu Garba[2]

 

Sword is the second episode of the second season of Halo: The Television Series.

Official summary[edit]

John pushes Silver Team to its limit as he searches for missing Spartans; Kai worries about John's stability; Kwan finds the Rubble is a far more dangerous place in Soren's absence; Halsey seeks the identity of her captor.[3]

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Credits[edit]

Directed by Debs Peterson

Written by Ahmadu Garba

Developed by Kyle Killen and Steven Kane

Based on the Halo Video Game Universe

Starring

  • Pablo Schreiber
  • Natascha McElhone
  • Joseph Morgan
  • Shabana Azmi
  • Christina Bennington
  • Natasha Culzac
  • Olive Gray
  • Yerin Ha
  • Bentley Kalu
  • Kate Kennedy
  • Charlie Murphy
  • Fiona O’Shaughnessy
  • Cristina Rodlo
  • Danny Sapani
  • Jen Taylor
  • Viktor Åkerblom
  • Tylan Bailey
  • And Bokeem Woodbine

Also Starring

  • Marvin Jones III

Executive Producers

  • Steven Spielberg
  • David Wiener
  • Kiki Wolfkill
  • Justin Falvey
  • Darryl Frank
  • Otto Bathurst
  • Toby Leslie
  • Gian Paolo Varani

Co-Executive Producers

  • Marisha Mukerjee
  • Ahmadu Garba

Supervising Producer Tom Hemmings

Producers

  • Sarah McCarron
  • Pablo Schreiber
  • Natascha McElhone
  • Charlotte Keating
  • Nick Iannelli

Co-Producers

  • Gabi Csoma
  • Dale Butler

Director of Photography Carl Sundberg

Production Designer James Foster

Editor Carmela Iandoli

Costume Designer Jill Ohanneson

Music by Sparks & Shadows

Main Title Theme by Bear McCreary and Marty O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori

Casting by Jina Jay

Staff Writer Basil Kreimendahl

Unit Production Manager Gabi Csoma

First Assistant Director Dale Butler

Second Assistant Director Nadia Brand

Additional Cast (In Order of Appearance)

  • Julia Bronte Carmichael
  • Ensign Bishara Sonny Poon Tip
  • Clive Mich Todorovic
  • Oswyn Ákos Inotay
  • Spiff Henchman #1 Zar Succarotte
  • Spiff Henchman #2 Narantsogt Tsogtsaikhan
  • Antares Ivanno Jeremiah
  • Carina Juliette Motamed
  • Castor David Crowley
  • Virgil Iliasz Shweirif
  • Danilo Christian Ochoa Lavernia
  • Manuela Perez Maria Luisa Costa
  • Cousin Mateo Eliseø Barrionuevo
  • Cousin Ant Sebastian Orozco
  • Aunt Lucia Maria Jose Bavio
  • Marine PVT Enikő Fülöp
  • Marine LT Jack Nevils

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Wojciech Zielinski

Visual Effects Producer Mike May

Supervising Stunt Coordinator Philip Silvera

Halo Canon Technical Consultant Kenneth Peters

Halo Transmedia Producer Cheryl Marine

Senior Halo Franchise Manager Corrinne Robinson

Production Manager Veronika Dobos

Production Supervisor Lillie Fleur

Assistant Production Managers

  • Gábor Vyjau
  • András Balazs
  • Nóra Simon

Production Coordinator

  • Veronika Bojtos
  • Caroline Houghton

Script Supervisor

  • Morag Cameron
  • ZImbini Pafa

Script Coordinator Sam Besser

Writers Assistant Sam Reynolds

Clearance Coordinator Paula Byrden

Floor Second Assistant Directors

  • Lee-Roy Titus
  • Ákos Strommer

Crowd Second Assistant Directors

  • Rita Nagy
  • Anna Geréb

2nd Second Assistant Directors

  • Joe Newson
  • Hayley Westray

Third Assistant Directors

  • Ferenc Tóth
  • Attila Pataki

Supervising Art Director Matt Hywel-Davies

Senior Art Directors

  • Andrew Ackland-Snow
  • Kiera Tudway

Art Directors

  • Gergö Rieger
  • Kriszta Szilagyi

Supervising Art Director Matt Hywel-Davies

Senior Art Directors

  • Gergö Rieger
  • Kriszta Szilágyi

Art Directors

  • Catherine Palmer
  • Francesc Masso
  • Áron Horváth
  • Attila Illés
  • Jirí Karásek

Standby Art Director James McCallum

Junior Art Director Andras Bódy

Assistant Art Directors

  • Hannah Versfield
  • Csaba Bányai

Additional Costume Design by Jane Holland

Costume Supervisor Balázs Labancz

Spartan Suit Development and Manufacture FBFX

Hair & Makeup/Prosthetics Designer Natalie MacGowan Spencer

Lead Makeup Department Supervisor Claudia Cavalli

Special Effects Supervisor Paul Stephenson

SFX Floor Supervisor Dave Stewart

SFX Pyro Supervisor Csaba Kiss

SFX Workshop Supervisor Ruan Liebenberg

Armoury Department Head Liam Byrne

Lead Military Advisor Jack Nevils

Set Decorators

  • Guy Potgieter
  • Nimród Hajdu

Property Masters

  • Andrew Orlando
  • András Máté

Lead Graphic Artist Willi Hartmann

UPM Stunt Department & Action Unit Ravi Dube

Stunt Coordinator Gáspár Szabó

Stunt Coordinator-Logistics Brady Romberg

Fight Coordinator/Choreographer Micah Karns

Assistant Fight Coordinators

  • Zar Succarotte
  • Brian Jansa

Stunt Coordinators – Rigging

  • Jayson Dumenigo
  • Mariusz Kubicki
  • Bryce Branagan
  • Tim Garris
  • Urs Inauen

A Camera/Steadicam Operator Adi Visser

B Camera Operator Márton Miklauzic

First Assistant Camera Operators

  • Matt Waving
  • Srdjan Uršičić

Digital Imaging Technician Péter Rácz

Data Management Technician Mariann Galanics

Video Assist Operator Gábor Nagy

Gaffer Florin Mihalache

Rigging Gaffers

  • Jamie Whickman
  • Ernő Demeter

Practical Gaffer István Törzsök

Key Grip Róbert Jász

Supervising Key Rigger Ádám Stankovits

VFX Key Rigger Zoltán Ács

Production Sound Mixer Tamás Dévényi

Senior Location Manager András Rudolf

Location Managers

  • Dániel Tóth
  • Csaba Sepsi

Transport Coordinator Sándor Viserálek

Picture Vehicles Coordinator Sándor Parádi Jr.

Additional Casting by Carla Hool CSA

Hungarian Casting by Katalin Baranyi

Casting Associate Verity Naughton

Senior Casting Assistant Matt Sheppard

Casting Assistant Sophie Aiken

Second Unit

Second Unit Director Philip Silvera

Directors of Photography

  • Márton Miklauzic
  • Buda Gulyás

Second Unit 1st Assistant Director Mircea Hategan

Camera Operators

  • Dániel Szőke
  • Eszter Galambos
  • Gergely Vass

Gaffer Tibor Kecskeméti

Key Grip László Egyedi

Sound Mixer Levente Udud

Video Assist Operator Attila Szilágyi

Digital Imaging Technician Róbert Gradvolt

Data Management Technicians

  • István Stecz
  • Csaba Kriston
Iceland Unit

Line Producer Hjortur Gretarson
Unit Production Managers

  • Mara Cereda
  • Tindur Karason

Second Unit Production Manager Trausti Haflidasson
Production Coordinator Vignir Dadi Valtysson
B Camera Operator Agust Jakobsson
B Camera 1st AC Nicholas Helgason
Gaffer Maria Run
Key Grip Viktor David Johannson
Art Director Gunnar Palsson
Sound Mixer Johannes B. Bjarnason
Data Management Technicians (VFX)

  • Arnor Einarsson
  • Benedikt Jóhannesson

Financial Controller Wendy Ellerker

Production Accountants

  • Carla Self
  • Kolos Trimmel
  • Péter Danó

Post Production Accountant Linda Gillespie

Language Consultants

  • David J. Peterson
  • Carl Buck

Dialogue Coach Christine Grace Szarko

Post Producer Lee Hughes

Post Associate Producer Kathleen Harris

Post Production Supervisor Kelsey Thompson

Post Production Coordinator Renée Perrin

Assistant to Nick Iannelli Robert Ryan Reyes

Additional Editing by Roderick Deogrades CCE

VFX Editor Andrew Bukovac

First Assistant Picture Editors

  • Wes Demkiw
  • Daisy MacLean

Assistant VFX Editor Jesse Scarrow

Assistant Picture Editor Lavinia Terletchi

Assistant Editor (London) Louisa Hawkins

Assistant Editor (Budapest) Péter Politzer

Sound Designer Brennan Mercer

Supervising Sound Editor Adam Stein

Supervising Sound Editor (ADR) Dale Sheldrake

Sound Effects Editor David Caporale

Dialogue Editors

  • Claire Dobson
  • James Bastable

Foley Editor Nadya Hanlon

First Assistant Sound Editors

  • Jean Bot
  • Nadya Hanlon
  • Andrew Wright

Composers

  • Etienne Monsaingeon
  • Ramin Kousha
  • Jesse Hartov

Music Editors

  • Michael Baber
  • Joe Mancuso

Sound Post Production

  • Formosa Group Toronto
  • Footsteps Post-Production Sound Inc.

Re-recording Mixers

  • Matthew Chan
  • Graham Rogers

Re-recording Mix Assistant TJ McCarthy

Dailies Colorfront

Digital Dailies Supervisor Ádám Jurkovich

Colour and Finish Company 3 Toronto

Colorist Bill Ferwerda

Finishing Editor Darren Hinchy

Project Manager Shane Allan

VFX Production Manager Mitchell Callisch

VFX On Set Supervisor Fir Suidema

VFX Artist (London) Joe Pavlo

VFX Coordinators

  • Anna Engel
  • Iván Karajz
  • Áron Ecsedy

On Set VFX Coordinator Fruzsina Szőke

Digital Asset Coordinator Benett Gyurik

Lead VFX Data Wrangler Bence Tóbik

VFX Data Wranglers

  • Tamás Hajdu
  • Gergely Z. Orbán
  • Mohamad Fawzi Alnazer

Production Support Judit Cseh

Visual Effects by Cúbica VFX

VFX Supervisors

  • Joan Amer
  • Cesc Bienzobas

VFX Producer Mariano Liwski

VFX Coordinators

  • Anna Cabañas
  • David Vallès

Additional Production Crew

  • Olaia Casal
  • Anna Gispert

Lead VFX Artists

  • Carles Zamorano
  • Carlos Navarro
  • Javi Verdugo

VFX Artists

  • Arturo Arjona
  • Llorenç Borràs
  • Toni Buenavida
  • Ole Bunger
  • Gabriel Casado
  • Marc Costa
  • Ilona Escudero
  • Laura Gil
  • Juan Carlos Gracia
  • Hosam Mansouri
  • Álvaro Moga
  • Guillem Pagès
  • Mari Carmen Pallarols
  • Helena Palomares
  • Alba Ribera
  • Iñaki Sánchez
  • Oriol Massana
  • Joak Cuervo
  • Juan Listello
  • Roberto García
  • Gloria Bernabeu
  • Noa Bofill
  • Francesc Macià
  • Marco Rossi
  • Gerard Dunleavy
  • Kiko Navarro
  • Taio Prince
  • Joan Azpeitia
  • Washington Neira
Visual Effects by Luma Pictures

Senior VFX Supervisor Vince Cirelli

Senior VFX Producer Shauna Bryan

VFX Supervisor Alex Cancado

Lighting Supervisor Pavel Pranevsky

Tracking/Matchmove Supervisor Louis Scott Cox

VFX Producer

  • Adam Goins
  • Marie-Eve Authier

Animation Supervisor Raphael de Almeida Pimentel

FX Supervisor Wayne Hollingsworth

Associate Digital Production Manager Grey Centauro

Digital Matte Painting Quimet Delgado

Crowd Andrew Adams

Roto/Paint Harkeerat Singh

Digital Production Manager Jenny Bae

Lead Artists

  • Benjamin T. Kay
  • Conor Schock
  • Edward Zhou
  • Kittitus Chinatiworn

Animation

  • Aram Lakhotia
  • Eunyoung Wang
  • Huy Ngo
  • Ian Lade
  • Jihyeon Kim
  • Juan Arias Cabrales
  • Kyeongsub Park
  • Pei Fen Lee
  • Sylvia Chin
  • Tiffany Wang
  • Yukari Kawasoe

Compositing

  • Calvin Nimmo
  • Florian Schuck
  • Gian Ignacio Lombardi
  • Hanna Goodman
  • Harshid Saini
  • Jessica Hart
  • Jihyeon Hong
  • Joe Banerjee
  • Meagan Green
  • Neil Ghaznavi
  • Pauline Liquido
  • Phillip Berg
  • Priya Ayengar

FX

  • Asuka Murata
  • Carlo Fontana
  • Helen Kwok
  • James Clift
  • Jules Machicot
  • Marine Hergault
  • Matthew Eng
  • Eric Hollands

Layout

  • Bethany Ringvall
  • Daniel Cohn
  • Jaryl Cabal
  • Lenny Gordon
  • Meagan Chancellor
  • Nathasha de Bakkar
  • Roberto Velio Genito
  • Sebastian Ness

Lighting

  • Anthony Russo
  • Jennifer Thompson
  • Jina Yoon
  • Povilas Pavilonis

Tracking/Matchmove

  • Blake Sala
  • Jake Golding
  • Liliana Campuzano
  • Nathan Jennings
Reach City Asset by El Ranchito

VFX Supervisor Sonsoles Aranguren

VFX Producer Deneb Sabater Ventura

Lead Compositor Alberto Cadenas Esteban

3D Lead José Luis Barreiro Gómez

FX Lead David Blanco Castillero

Production

  • Reyes Arnal Risueño
  • Marco Sacido Lechap
  • Sara Terol Miralles
  • Marta Muñoz Ovejero
  • Sara Lucia Alvarez

DMP

  • Javier Sicilia
  • Manuel Huertas

FX

  • Pau Calsina Bové
  • Pol Villa
  • Adrián Salazar Fernández

Compositors

  • Carlos Claramount
  • Fernando Adem
  • Juan Carlos Atares
  • Paco Sánchez Real
  • Carlos Rivera Urbina
  • Alejandro Rivas Llave
  • Pablo Cano
  • Borja Herraiz Mengual
  • José Ramón Lastras
  • Ander Moreno Martínez
  • Bernat Enrich Miquel

3D

  • Alberto C. Martínez
  • Iván Torres Pardo
  • Gustavo Labrador
  • Carlos Esteban Díez
  • José Daniel Núñez
  • Frédéric Martinez Menendez
  • Jorge José Sánchez
  • Jose Angel Ramirez
  • Nauzet Naranjo
  • Santi Bonet Garrote
  • Zaida De Torre
  • Javier Argente Gómez

MM

  • Yusef El Khadir Palomo
  • Pao Durán
  • Miguel Susaeta Vallejo

Assembly

  • Carlos G. Cardoso
  • Aníbal Del Busto
  • Paula Rodríguez García
Visual Effects by Monkey Rave Production

VFX Supervisors

  • Arman Yahin
  • Andrey Maksimov

VFX Producers

  • Dilik Rahmanova
  • Julia Huene

VFX Coordinators

  • Anna Abragina
  • Senya Radchenko

Digital Artists

  • Irina Selezenko
  • Nadezhda Dmitrieva
  • Alexey Shalnov
  • Anastasia Tsvetaeva
  • Sergey Shuppo
  • Alexey Pershin
  • Irina Grigorova
Visual Effects by The Yard VFX

VFX Supervisor Harry Bardak

VFX Producer Diego Cordier-Royer

VFX Coordinator Julie Dijoux

CG Supervisor Gregory Lanfranchi

Compositing Supervisor Alexis Caresche

Visual Effects Assembly

  • Jade Gautier
  • David Pedreira

Heads of Departments

  • Laurens Erhmann
  • Alexis Oqblet
  • Marie Afriat
  • Virginie Wintrebert
  • Gregory Ginsburger
  • Noemie Cauvin
  • Fabian Nowak
  • Corentin Bachelet
  • Denis Scolan
  • Gianni Manno

Lead Compositors

  • Simon Auquier
  • Arnaud Ortmann

DMP Artist Bora Min

Assets Artist Gabriel Mori

Environment Artists

  • Jean-Baptiste Caillet
  • Joelle Sadok

Lighting Artists

  • Mathieu Trevisan
  • Mathieu Bron

Support Team

  • Lucas Coulmance
  • Matteo Erhmann
  • Haudegond Julien[sic]
  • Neglokpe Jeff[sic]
  • Aurele Boquet
  • Brandon Castel
  • Abygaelle Fabre
  • Celine Pischetola
  • Muriel Lorach
  • Victor Pecoste
Visual Effects by Rocket Science Visual Effects

VFX Producer John Markle

VFX Supervisor Nikola Simeonov

VFX Coordinator Carly Baker

VFX Assembly Steve Elliot

Pipeline Supervisor Ryan McDonald

Compositing Supervisor David Rezek

Lighting Supervisor Rachad Meya

Animation Artist Bhavya Gala

Layout Supervisor Eugene Chucha

Asset Supervisor Bikram Sarkar

Compositors

  • Louisa Au
  • Sylvie Ngoka
  • Amber Evans
  • Clayton Blake Mathias
  • Janine Razon
  • Ian Britton

Lighting Artist Elliot Dawson-Clark

Layout Artists

  • Sujin Lee
  • Rambaboo Sainy
  • Julian Fadalti

Asset Artists

  • Aya Aboudi
  • Sethen Young
  • Greg Winhall

Matte Painters

  • Igor Garanovschii
  • Ahmed Raslan
Visual Effects by Take 5 VFX

VFX Compositing Supervisor Maria Gordon

Lead Compositor Jerry Lai

Sequence Lead Kyle Boylen

Lead Matte Painter Alphonso Young

VFX Compositors

  • Ben Funk
  • Anna Joukova
  • Rima Kulkarni
  • Xi Luo
  • Corey Mayne
  • Lee Pierce
  • Travis Pond
  • Rachit Raval
  • Genesis Rivas
  • Yuri Shubenin
  • Ksenia Shutova
  • Wes While
  • Yuki Ye

VFX Studio Manager Kelly Weisz

VFX JR Coordinator Mariah Fleetham

Visual Effects by Incessant Rain Studios

VFX Supervisor Rameshwor Shrestha

VFX Producer Deepa Chipalu Joshi

Production Coordinator Abhishek Chitrakar

Lead Compositor Krijan Shrestha

Compositors

  • Amir Shrestha
  • Anup Shakya
  • Anurag Shrestha
  • Manil Shrestha
  • Prakash Senchuri
  • Rohin Maharjan
  • Sanjay Jyapu
  • Udaya Ratna Maharjan
Visual Effects by Fillscrn

VFX Supervisor Balázs Balogh

VFX Producer Balázs Rozgonyi

Lead Compositors

  • Gergely Kanyog
  • József Morvay

Compositors

  • Bence Hegybíró
  • Péter Hostyánszki
  • Gábor Kutyik
  • Gergely Attila Velki

2D/3D Animation Lead Balázs Fekti

2D/3D Motion Designers

  • Richard Besenczi
  • Gábor Kamlah

Matchmove Artist Róbert Illés

Digital Artists

  • Zoltán Fiedler
  • Sándor Mankó
Visual Effects by El Ranchito

VFX Supervisors

  • Carlos Puigdoller
  • Oscar Perea

VFX Producer Lucía Olano

Production

  • Luis S. Cossio
  • Rubén Bustos
  • Julia Fierros

Lead Compositor Álvaro Moya

3D Lead Alberto Moreno

Compositors

  • Alexandre Hurtado
  • Bernat Enrich
  • Jhon de la Cruz
  • Jorge Gutiérrez
  • Marcos González
  • Nikolas Duque

FX

  • David Blanco
  • Ernesto Tejedor
  • Pau Calsina
  • Guido Floriani

DMP

  • Carlos Simón
  • Manuel Huertas

MM

  • Yusef El Khadir
  • Pablo Durán

Assembly

  • Carlos G. Cardoso
  • Jerome Juan
  • Paula Rodríguez
  • Aníbal Del Busto
Visualization and Motion Capture by Prewizards Studio

Previz/Postviz Supervisor Laszlo Maczo
Previz/Postviz Artist Andras Grega-Kovacs
Previz Artists

  • Eniko Kives
  • Norbert Szocs

Post Production Services Take 5 Productions

Main Title Design Goodbye Kansas Studios

  • Creative BC
  • Ontario Creates
  • Production Services Tax Credit Sodec
  • British Columbia
  • DGC (Directors Guild of Canada) Ontario

Produced with film and television tax credit assistance from the Government of Ontario
With the participation of the Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit

Production services in Hungary provided by Mid Atlantic Films Producers

  • Adam Goodman
  • Howard Ellis

Head of Production Gergő Balika Thank you to the National Film Office - National Media and Info-Communications Authority of Hungary and the Hungarian National Film Fund
National Film Institute Hungary
Supported by the Hungarian Film Incentive

Production services in Iceland provided by True North
Producer Leifur B. Dagfinnsson
With Support from Film in Iceland

Production services In Slovenia provided by Pakt Media
Producer Diego Zanco
The film was supported by the Cash Rebate Scheme of the Republic of Slovenia, operated by the Slovenian Film Centre, a public Agency, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

This audiovisual production has benefited from the tax credit for the production of foreign motion picture granted by the Spanish Government

This film has benefited from the French Tax Rebate for International Productions
Cette oeuvre a bénéficié du crédit d'impôt en faveur de la production de films étrangers en France
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The events, characters and firms depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental.

©2024 Microsoft. Halo, Master Chief, 343 Industries and all related properties, titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Many of the Halo games include notable music composed by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori.

Microsoft is the author and creator of this motion picture for the purpose of copyright, trademark, and other laws in all countries throughout the world. All rights reserved.

This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States, Canada and other countries, and its unauthorized duplication, distribution, or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution.

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Gallery[edit]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ Internet Movie Database, IMDb (Retrieved on Jan 28, 2024) [archive]
  2. ^ Writers Guild of America West, Halo (Retrieved on Jan 28, 2024) [archive]
  3. ^ Rotten Tomatoes, Halo – Season 2, Episode 2 (Retrieved on Jan 29, 2024) [archive]