What simply occurred? There’s by no means been a greater time for followers of animations primarily based on video video games. Netflix has revealed trailers for the brand new Tomb Raider and Satan Might Cry reveals. They’re fairly transient, particularly the latter, however these preliminary glimpses look promising.
First introduced in 2021, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft was unveiled throughout Netflix’s Drop 01 livestream yesterday. The present is ready straight after the superb Survivor trilogy, which is made up of the 2013 reboot, 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider from 2018.
Netflix’s model is produced by Legendary Tv and Crystal Dynamics, developer of the video games, whereas the animation is being dealt with by Castlevania’s Powerhouse Animation. Tasha Huo, author of The Witcher: Blood Origin, can be writing and govt producing the present.
The trailer additionally reveals that actress Hayley Atwell – Peggy Carter from Marvel’s Agent Carter – can be voicing the enduring adventurer.
Along with the Tomb Raider trailer, Netflix additionally revealed a teaser for one more animated sport adaptation: Satan Might Cry. Adi Shankar, who labored as showrunner and govt producer on Castlevania, is the showrunner, with the animation supplied by Studio Mir, the corporate that animated Legend of Korra and The Boondocks season 4.
The Satan Might Cry animation was first introduced method again in 2018. Shankar confirmed in 2021 that Vergil and Girl are two of the characters that can be within the present. It is also set to be eight episodes lengthy and span a number of seasons.
There’s little or no to be gleaned from the 44-second trailer, which accommodates about 4 or 5 seconds of precise animation. The Doom-like heavy steel within the background is fairly catchy, although.
It additionally seems that Shankar is planning a crossover of Satan Might Cry and Castlevania in some unspecified time in the future. He beforehand mentioned that the DMC animated present will “be part of Castlevania in what we’re now calling the bootleg universe.”
Not all online game TV adaptions, animated or in any other case, are well-received. Whereas Arcane gained an Emmy award, the live-action Resident Evil was canceled after one season. Shankar no less than is a fan of DMC, having beforehand informed IGN that he had “acquired these rights myself so the jabronis in Hollywood do not f**ok this one up too.”