The TV universe of video games and characters that millennials grew up with is taking shape, and I'm not mad about it.
With several critically acclaimed live-action adaptations already released and even more in development at multiple networks, Netflix is now tapping PlayStation legend Crash Bandicoot to create an animated series, according to a report from Netflix. What's on Netflix.
Not only that, but there's a leading animation studio behind it: WildBrain Studios, which recently worked on all three seasons of the recent Netflix series Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic Primeand may be set to take on another gaming icon from the 1990s.
Netflix has produced successful adaptations such as Arcane, Castlevania, Cyberpunk: Edge Runners, And Witcher, and a few more people in the works, for example BioShock film and Assassin's Creed series, so it's clear that video game stories brought to a new medium will be the new norm for a while. And I'm absolutely fine with that.
This may not have been the case a few years ago, because it took decades and some terrible projects for networks to start making serious video game adaptations, both for television and film. But things are moving in the right direction, helped by shows like the HBO series. The last of us which won nine Emmy Awards and received 40 nominations in just two seasons. Prime Video fall out the second season, which will be released in December, also deserves praise for its one win and 16 awards.
Crash Bandicoot and the strange world around it originated on the PS1 back in 1996, and it also has potential as an animated series, so perhaps we'll be in for another peak when it's ready in a few years if this report turns out to be accurate.
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