Every Video Game Adaptation in Development at Netflix

September 12, 2020 steezy

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CD Projekt Red’s highly-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 has been in development since 2012 and will finally release in November 2020 launching a new franchise similar to CDPR’s The Witcher. The Witcher game creator teamed up with Dark Horse Comics for comic-book adaptations of Cyberpunk and with Netflix for an animated series. The newly announced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a 10-episode limited animated series and will be developed by Studio Trigger (Live Witch Academia, Promare).

According to the official synopsis Edgerunners will tell the story of “street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner – a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk”. The animated series will have its own original characters and isn’t expected to overlap with Cyberpunk 2077 in any major way except being set in the same Night City.

Predicted release date: 2022

Splinter Cell

Type: TV Series

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An animated series based on the popular fantasy franchise of the same name by Capcom has been announced in 2018, but sadly news about Netflix’s Devil May Cry has been scarce ever since. Castlevania series creator Adi Shankar is set to develop Devil May Cry as well. In an interview with IGN, Shankar said that Devil May Cry “will join Castlevania in what we’re now calling the bootleg multiverse”.

Predicted release date: TBA

Final Fantasy

A live-action Final Fantasy series is in the works at Netflix. Produced by Hivemind, the studio behind The Witcher and Amazon’s The Expanse, Final Fantasy will take place in the realm of Final Fantasy XIV. According to a press release the new series will be about “the struggle between magic and technology in a quest to bring peace to a land in conflict”. The press release also indicates that we’ll see some iterations of beasts, airships, and Cid

There has been no news about Final Fantasy’s production start and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it might be months until we hear anything new.

Predicted release date: TBA

The Cuphead Show!

Netflix’s The Cuphead Show! will “follow the misadventures of impulsive Cuphead and his brother Mugman in an animated series based on the popular video game. Cuphead and Mugman will be voiced by Tru Valentino and Frank Todaro respectively.

You can find even more about Cuphead in our comprehensive preview including some of the first footage!

Predicted release date: 2021