HBO Max is perhaps bringing The Final of Us to streamers in January 2023, and Fallout looks as if it’s not too far behind on Amazon. However as a trailer this week for the animated sequence Dragon Age: Absolution shortly reminds us, Netflix is the undisputed dwelling of online game variations. It has a whopping 15 initiatives within the works to go together with the large names it has already delivered, like League of Legends spinoff Arcane, The Cuphead Present, and the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, whose first season premiered in September.
Encompassing characteristic movies and TV sequence, each live-action and animated, right here’s a recap of all the things video video games that’s in Netflix’s pipeline, together with the latest information we’ve heard about it.
Murderer’s Creed
An “epic, genre-bending” live-action adaptation would be the first sequence in a partnership Netflix and Ubisoft’s Movie & Tv group introduced in October 2020. The 2 have extra Murderer’s Creed content material in thoughts, however they haven’t mentioned what that is perhaps. On the Ubisoft Ahead showcase in September, Netflix and Ubisoft introduced they had been partnering on a cell sport as nicely.
Past Good & Evil
It looks as if blasphemy to speak about this getting a display screen adaptation, with Past Good & Evil 2, the long-awaited prequel to the 20-year-old cult hit, virtually AWOL since 2018. However, additionally in 2020, Ubisoft confirmed it was working with Netflix on a Past Good & Evil characteristic movie. “We sit up for sharing extra sooner or later,” the writer mentioned. Like with the sport, it hasn’t but.
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BioShock
Again in February, Netflix mentioned that it, 2K Video games, and Take-Two Interactive (2K’s mother or father firm) reached an settlement to make “a movie adaptation of the famend online game franchise BioShock.” 2K Video games and Vertical Leisure are the manufacturing companions. BioShock final noticed a online game with 2013’s BioShock Infinite, although 2K Video games mentioned in 2019 {that a} new inner studio, Cloud Chamber, was engaged on the following installment, nonetheless “a number of years” away.
Castlevania: Nocturne
After 4 seasons as an animated hit, Castlevania returns to Netflix with Castlevania: Nocturne, led by showrunner Kevin Kolde, who labored on the unique sequence. Castlevania: Nocturne will characteristic Richter Belmont, the protagonist of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Evening. Netflix confirmed the animated sequence was in manufacturing again in June.
Satan Might Cry
Adi Shankar, government producer of the animated Castlevania sequence that aired on Netflix from 2017 to 2021, mentioned in 2018 that he had acquired the rights to make an animated DMC sequence. Final 12 months, Shankar informed IGN Japan that the scripts for season 1 had been completed, that the primary 12 months would encompass eight episodes, and that it was being made with a “multi-season arc” in thoughts. Manufacturing was supposed to start earlier this 12 months; no premiere date has been introduced.
Dragon Age: Absolution
We simply heard on Thursday that this animated adaptation of BioWare’s fantasy RPG will premiere Dec. 9. The sequence will run for six 30-minute episodes and tells the story of a heist (of an historic artifact) gone sideways. Stars who’re in on the job embrace Kimberly Brooks, Matthew Mercer, Ashly Burch, and Sumalee Montano. BioWare, in the meantime, remains to be at work on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, formally introduced by Digital Arts this previous June.
Dragon’s Lair
The Hollywood Reporter reported within the spring of 2020 that Netflix had closed a deal for the rights to adapt the Nineteen Eighties LaserDisc sport, and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) was in talks to supply and star in it. Dragon’s Lair matches, considerably, with Netflix’s programming aesthetic, because it cameoed in Stranger Issues as a recognizable piece of Nineteen Eighties nostalgia. Simply this week, Collider requested Reynolds how the undertaking was going, and Reynolds mentioned Netflix is “taking such a swing with it. […] I believe [it] will probably be fairly shocking to lots of people.” There are nonetheless no different particulars on when this characteristic would possibly premiere.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Who is aware of precisely what this will probably be ultimately, however Adi Shankar can also be creating an animated sequence referred to as Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, which relies on Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, the 2013 stand-alone growth that mocked Nineteen Eighties action-flick VHS leases. The present’s hero is the cybernetic super-soldier Dolph Laserhawk, and in accordance with Shankar, he has full permission from Ubisoft to remix the writer’s IP, so this needs to be particularly bizarre.
Gears of Battle
Netflix has gained the rights to 2 Gears of Battle variations, one a feature-length movie that has been envisioned for almost 15 years, the opposite an “grownup animated sequence.” On Monday, Netflix confirmed each initiatives had been within the works, “with the potential for extra tales to observe!” Netflix will accomplice with Gears’ developer, The Coalition, on getting the film and cartoons onto the display screen, however thus far no filmmakers, administrators, writers, or different stars are hooked up to any of the variations.
Horizon Zero Daybreak
First revealed in a Sony Photos briefing to traders in Might, Horizon Zero Daybreak was later confirmed for a Netflix live-action adaptation, with The Umbrella Academy’s Steve Blackman aboard as showrunner. Talking throughout Netflix’s Tudum showcase in August, Blackman mentioned the present would star Aloy, the protagonist of 2017’s Horizon Zero Daybreak and this 12 months’s Horizon Forbidden West.
Pokémon
A live-action Pokémon sequence, within the mode of 2019’s profitable Detective Pikachu, was reportedly within the works as of late July 2021. Joe Henderson, the manager producer of Netflix’s Lucifer, was mentioned to be the author and government producer. However that’s actually all anybody is aware of thus far. The sequence hasn’t been formally confirmed by both Netflix or The Pokémon Firm, a lot much less named.
Sonic Prime
This animated sequence starring the Blue Blur premieres Dec. 15. In it, Sonic and fan favorites Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Shadow, Rouge the Bat, and Huge the Cat are all introduced collectively due to a “universe-shattering occasion” brought on by Eggman. (Who else?) The present will run for twenty-four episodes and places new voices in key roles, resembling Deven Christian Mack as Sonic, Ashleigh Ball as Tails, and Brian Drummond as Eggman.
Tom Clancy’s The Division
First introduced in 2016 as a characteristic movie, Ubisoft informed followers at E3 2019 that the undertaking was headed to Netflix. Jake Gyllenhaal remains to be hooked up, as each producer and predominant character. Jessica Chastain additionally got here aboard the undertaking earlier than the 2019 announcement. Finally examine, director Rawson Marshall Thurber mentioned he anticipated filming to start “hopefully” someday this 12 months.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
Good buddy Ubisoft’s fifth collab with Netflix is an animated adaptation of the stealth/motion online game franchise, which, like a number of different titles on this checklist, hasn’t seen a brand new online game in almost a decade. Selection reported in 2020 that Netflix had signed up for 16 episodes over two seasons, which Ubisoft later confirmed to Polygon. In 2021, Netflix teased followers with some key artwork for the present. Derek Kolstad, the co-creator of the John Wick franchise, is hooked up to the undertaking.
Tomb Raider
Netflix introduced in early 2021 that an animated adaptation of Tomb Raider was coming quickly, though it didn’t give a launch date or window. Tasha Huo, of The Witcher: Blood Origin, a miniseries prequel coming Christmas Day, is on the undertaking as government producer and author.
