Shabana Azmi to work with Spielberg

Veteran actress Shabana Azmi has signed Steven Spielberg’s nine-part web-series Halo, which will be directed by Otto Bathurst who helmed the Netflix series, Black Mirror. Halo is one of the most popular video game franchises in the world, having sold more than 77 million copies since its initial release in 2001. Halo, which Showtime has described as its ‘most ambitious series ever’, is set to begin production in Budapest in the fall. Apart from Shabana, Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac and Kate Kennedy have taken on the project.