: When it comes to established game franchises with the universe to have a
: movie or tv show, the gut reaction is movie and focus on the big players,
: but what usually sounds and works out better would be a smaller tv show
: focusing on a little group of relative nobodies(exactly what you
: presented.)

ilovebees. Spartan "1.1"'s. Enhanced young fighters, not Spartans, and regular folk, fighting to make a difference in the Covenant war. ..though a bit similar to FUD in that sense I suppose. But each of the ILB characters has had strong character development, a great history and background to pull from, each sort of having their own story arc where also all now connect through Melissa. The story left off on the cliff hanger ending (effectively) with Covenant reaching Earth. Excellent place to continue their story, I think.
But I'm sure I'm pretty lonely in this opinion :)