Netflix has lots of of tasks in growth and extra not too long ago they’ve been leaning into the online game area (as has many different networks and streamers) so let’s check out all of the online game TV collection and films presently in growth/manufacturing at Netflix.
Amazon Prime has been busy selecting up online game licenses together with most not too long ago saying that it will be the streaming service to create a TV collection round Bethesda’s Fallout collection.
HBO additionally made a giant stride final yr with the announcement that The Final of Us could be getting the TV therapy too.
However Netflix isn’t standing nonetheless within the area and has already produced/acquired quite a lot of online game tasks to this point together with:
- Castlevania
- Dragon’s Dogma
- Minecraft: Story Mode
- The Witcher (initially a e-book however popularized by the online game franchise)
However let’s now have a look into the long run and see what online game adaptation tasks Netflix presently has within the works:
Resident Evil
Sort: TV Collection
Created for tv by long-time Supernatural producer Andrew Dabb, Resident Evil is an upcoming live-action collection based mostly on the Capcom franchise of the identical identify. Much like the movie collection helmed by Paul W. S. Anderson starring Mila Yovovich, Netflix’s Resident Evil doesn’t seem like based mostly on anybody recreation of Capcom’s lengthy franchise, however will somewhat have its personal story and interpret the world and the characters in its personal approach.
In line with the official synopsis, Resident Evil will happen in two timelines. The primary will revolve round Jade and Billie Wesker, the 2 teenage daughters of essentially the most iconic Resident Evil villain, Albert Wesker. They may discover themselves in a manufactured company city and can start questioning their environment and their very own father. The second timeline will see Jade fifteen years later, when your entire planet is overrun by zombies. Jade, now thirty, struggles to outlive on this New World, whereas the secrets and techniques from her previous, about her sister, her father, and herself proceed to hang-out her.
Presently, no manufacturing dates for Resident Evil have been revealed, however simply earlier than the COVID-19 lockdown, the collection was deliberate to be filmed from June via October 2020. If all goes nicely, manufacturing could start in early 2021. Read our full summary of everything we know about Resident Evil.
Predicted launch date: 2022
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Sort: TV Collection
CD Projekt Purple’s highly-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 has been in growth since 2012 and can lastly launch in November 2020 launching a brand new franchise just like CDPR’s The Witcher. The Witcher recreation creator teamed up with Darkish Horse Comics for comic-book diversifications of Cyberpunk and with Netflix for an animated collection. The newly introduced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a 10-episode restricted animated collection and will probably be developed by Studio Set off (Reside Witch Academia, Promare).
In line with the official synopsis Edgerunners will inform the story of “avenue child making an attempt to outlive in a know-how and physique modification-obsessed metropolis of the long run. Having all the pieces to lose, he chooses to remain alive by turning into an edgerunner – a mercenary outlaw often known as a cyberpunk”. The animated collection can have its personal authentic characters and isn’t anticipated to overlap with Cyberpunk 2077 in any main approach besides being set in the identical Evening Metropolis.
Predicted launch date: 2022
Splinter Cell
Sort: TV Collection
Tom Clancy’s iconic spy thriller is coming to Netflix within the type of an animated collection with John Wick author Derek Kolstad main the event. In line with Variety, the collection has obtained a two-season 16-episode deal at Netflix.
Sadly, nothing else is thought about Netflix’s Splinter Cell in the meanwhile not to mention whether or not Michael Ironside will reprise his position because the collection protagonist Sam Fisher.
Predicted launch date: 2021/2022
The Division
Sort: Film
One other manufacturing based mostly on Tom Clancy’s works, The Division will arrive to Netflix in type of a characteristic movie. Directed by Deadpool 2‘s David Leitch, The Division will star such Hollywood A-Listers as Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain.
The Division will observe the identical primary storyline because the online game it’s based mostly on: Within the close to future, a devastating virus is launched upon the residents of New York Metropolis on Black Friday. The virus, unfold via paper cash, kills thousands and thousands inside the metropolis, and what little stays of society has descended into chaos. A extremely skilled group of operatives are tasked with going into New York Metropolis and saving any potential survivors.
Presently, there are not any manufacturing dates on The Division, but when all goes nicely, manufacturing could start within the coming months. We’ve acquired much more on this so learn up on everything we know about The Division.
Predicted launch date: 2022
Satan Could Cry
An animated collection based mostly on the favored fantasy franchise of the identical identify by Capcom has been announced in 2018, however sadly information about Netflix’s Satan Could Cry has been scarce ever since. Castlevania collection creator Adi Shankar is about to develop Satan Could Cry as nicely. In an interview with IGN, Shankar stated that Satan Could Cry “will be a part of Castlevania in what we’re now calling the bootleg multiverse”.
Predicted launch date: TBA
Closing Fantasy
A live-action Closing Fantasy collection is within the works at Netflix. Produced by Hivemind, the studio behind The Witcher and Amazon’s The Expanse, Closing Fantasy will happen within the realm of Closing Fantasy XIV. In line with a press launch the brand new collection will probably be about “the battle between magic and know-how in a quest to deliver peace to a land in battle”. The press launch additionally signifies that we’ll see some iterations of beasts, airships, and Cid
There was no information about Closing Fantasy’s manufacturing begin and as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, it may be months till we hear something new.
Predicted launch date: TBA
The Cuphead Present!
Netflix’s The Cuphead Present! will “observe the misadventures of impulsive Cuphead and his brother Mugman in an animated collection based mostly on the favored online game. Cuphead and Mugman will probably be voiced by Tru Valentino and Frank Todaro respectively.
You will discover much more about Cuphead in our comprehensive preview including some of the first footage!
Predicted launch date: 2021
Different Rumored Video Recreation Initiatives
- By no means truly confirmed however a Zelda collection based mostly on the
That’s all we have now proper now. Have we missed any upcoming Netflix diversifications? Tell us within the feedback down beneath.