>Netflix has been holding an event today where it’s announcing the bulk of its upcoming programming slate. Nestled in the press release was this:
>Castlevania Season 1, Part 1 Coming to Netflix in 2017
>This is literally all we know for sure at the moment, but the project is likely the same one that’s been reported as being in development from Frederator Networks (Adventure Time) and producer Adi Shankar, who was behind that gritty Power Rangers short back in 2015.
Timeline of Ellis trying to get this off the ground:
Forgot the concept art, wonder if Fredarator can deliver on this.
Dominic Mitchell
I want LISA instead
Ryan Peterson
>written by Warren Ellis Delayed.
Angel Lopez
WHERE THE FUCK IS FELL
Bentley Foster
It's been delayed for over a decade already.
Nathan Thomas
And it will take another decade for it to end.
Nolan Williams
>Castlevania HELL YEAH >Ellis HELL NO
Zachary Hughes
Is Ellis not good for this material?
Jack Jones
Fuck, I wanted 2
Jackson Gray
Oh, shit Adi's the guy that Wrote Dredd and all those bootleg trailers and short movies. This guy has some legitimate talent.
This could be legitimately good, if season 2 or 3 is Curse of Darkness I might legitimately buy merchandise.
The only road bumps I see is that Adi's shit always gets cancelled and delayed and Frederator is garbage that can't animate itself out of a paper bag, much less animate in a timely manner.
Josiah Smith
WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT to play a shitty game
Robert Davis
Symphony of the night
Kevin Nguyen
Ellis is simply unable to keep a deadline. He has many unfinished books.
Gabriel Jenkins
That's too juicy to not to save for a season 3.
Caleb Rogers
He already did the writing if I am reading right
Hudson James
But all the episodes? If he didn't, don't expect him to finish the job.
Jacob Gutierrez
Ellis is fine, as you said he's been attached for a long while, but why couldn't the Voltron guys animate?
Can't disassociate Frederator with Adventure Time/Bravest Warriors and it really clashes.
Dominic Wood
I highly doubt it'll come out looking like Adventure time and I'm also pretty sure they'll outsource a bit to Mir and/or Titmouse.
Lucas Cox
>he doesn't want to put dracula back together because it's a terrible night for a curse
Yeah, early Castlevanias weren't exactly the best platformers.
Connor Martinez
>first good vidya adaptation
The cartoons were generally alright. It's really the movies that suck
Zachary Rodriguez
So this is what Ellis had been writing between unexplained delays.
Lincoln Williams
and a King Arthur script for Guy Ritchie totally unrelated to that film out in a few months
I think I might have asked him about it on scans_daily
Chase Smith
>Guy Ritchie
James Sanchez
Netflix won't fund a project unless all of the scripts are fully complete
Jack Morales
>the day someone managed to have Ellis finish a job If only comic publishers were this good.
Oliver James
It's Dracula's Curse (Castlevania 3). Shankar said that if the series is a hit, then seasons will be made to cover the 1st game and Dracula X.
Hudson Hill
Because he had 10 years to finish it
William Scott
...
Josiah Ward
Remember when James Wan was attached to a movie? It might have been with the Ellis script. So that means Ellis probably expanded his script to miniseries instead of feature length.
Most importantly I wonder if he played the games. Though he did GI Joe Absolute without knowing what GI Joe was, and it was alright,
David Morales
Are action cartoons making a comeback Sup Forums? Is it finally time?
Hunter Bailey
Circle of the Moon
Julian Anderson
Only Simon's quest was bad. 1 and 3 were great unless you were a faggot who didn't know how to read your enemy
Hudson Rivera
Well my interest in this just went up several notches
Julian Stewart
You know goddamn well that LISA is too fucked up to get on TV.
Ian Sanchez
>yfw the 7th episode just abruptly ends halfway through and we never hear from it again >2 weeks later Ellis tweets about his liver
Dylan Collins
They better use the games' music. If there's one gripe I have with VLD, the theme has yet to appear.
Justin Campbell
Is it based on the old series or lords of shadow series?
Aaron Lee
Season 2 will be Season 1 but upside down.
Old Series. Castlevania 3
Benjamin Roberts
The Ellis pitch looked awful back in the day.
Joseph Lee
If this is a hit, will Konami make games that aren't EROTIC VIOLENCE slot machines again?
Is the classic timeline too crowded for more games in it? Should they just go for an Ultimate universe-style reboot (as in not throwing everything out like Lords of Shadow)?
Juan Nguyen
They're already capitalizing on classic games again with Super Bomberman R. I can see it happening.
Jackson Garcia
I'm a bat I'm a bat I'm a bat I'm a bat
Dominic Bailey
Fuck, there goes Wildstorm out the window.
Jayden Watson
>Warren Ellis.
I didn't thought he liked videogames.
Adam Myers
If Adi's backing it then I'm sure it'll be good.
Lincoln Johnson
The only video game-based Western cartoon I can think of that was legitimately good was Earthworm Jim.
Jackson Gutierrez
WHEN'S SOMA____
Evan Moore
Sounds cool
Jaxson Johnson
You lost me at "Netflix"
Expect low budget Bojack-tier flash animation.
Gabriel Brown
Awesome. Starting off with Trevor.
Grayson Edwards
Nice meme.
Eli Martinez
FUCK. I forgot this was happening. Is it still happening? I saw Warren at a book signing recently and didn't even remember it to ask.
Holy shit. James Jean. Nice. Almost similar to Japan's Ayami Kojima.
Too fucking bad Konami doesn't make fucking videogames anymore. Enjoy your tie in Castlevania pachinko machine and mobile tap "game".
What a miserable little pile of secrets.
Carter Long
I should play the original NES ones. Never did beat them. Only beat Symphony Of The Night and the GBA and DS ones.
