The cast of Showtime's Halo series continues to grow, with the network revealing that it has cast two more series mainstays, Jacob and Miranda Keyes, and production set to begin this month in Budapest.

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David Sapani (Penny Dreadful) will play Captain Jacob Keyes, described as "a dedicated military man, a war hero and a caring father. He finds that working alongside his daughter and his ex-wife is usually the cause of conflict rather than comfort." Olive Gray (Half Moon Investigations) has been cast as his daughter Dr. Miranda Keyes, "a brilliant UNSC Commander who is dedicated to understanding the technology, language and culture of the Covenant, but she'll have to learn to navigate the politics of the UNSC to get what she wants." The friction between father and daughter will be explored in the new series.Showtime has also announced that Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders) will play a character named Makee. Makee is an orphaned human raised by the Covenant to hate her own people. According to Showtime, Makee is a different character from the games' Mahkee, who debuted in Halo 5: Guardians and is the first female Sangheili character in the series.Sapani, Gray, and Murphy join a growing cast that also include Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief Natascha McElhone as both Dr. Catherine Halsey and her AI creation Cortana, Bokeem Woodbine as Soren-006, Shabana Azmi as Admiral Margaret Parangosky, Bentley Kalu as Vannak-134, Natasha Culzac as Riz-028 and Kate Kennedy as Kai-125.The Halo series is expected to premiere on Showtime in spring 2021. Otto Bathurst, who worked on shows like Peaky Blinders and Black Mirror, will direct and executive produce the live-action Halo series for Showtime. He replaced director Rupert Wyatt, who left the project in December 2018. Kyle Killen and Stephen Kane will both serve as showrunners “There’s all kinds of new drama that we will be exploring but we will stay faithful to the canon,” Showtime president Gary Levine told Deadline at the annual Television Critics Association. “We’re not going to violate anything that’s in the canon.”However, the show may stray from the canon in one important respect. There's a chance we could see Master Chief's face

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