Cover art for Castlevania by Harmony of Despair. Image: Konami
As Netflix has revealed the lineup of their 2017 shows, one show in particular should catch the attention of gamers everywhere – it involves a very famous vampire and the family of vampire hunters that is its sworn enemy.
Apart from the official announcement stating “Castlevania Season 1, Part 1 Coming to Netflix in 2017,” not much else is known officially. There are a few instances that lead to a few details regarding its inception, reports Gizmodo.
Earlier on, it was reported on an episode of Nick Animation that Adventure Time creator Frederator Networks and producer Adi Shankar, the guy behind the gritty Power Ranger short back in 2015, had been developing a then-unnamed video game project. Below is a transcript of Seibert’s words as per Slashfilm:
“We have a project right now that we’re doing that needs to go unnamed, based on one of the most world-famous video games of the last 30 years, that we’ve had in our shop for 12 years without being able to get it started. But there were great characters and a great story, and eventually we got it going.”
Adi Shankar also posted something on social media last year about a Castlevania series that he will be working on with Seibert.
Connecting all the dots together, it does seem that this upcoming Castlevania show on Netflix is the previously-alluded to Seibert-Shanker collaboration. Another report from The Globe and Mail state that Warren Ellis did the writing for the show’s first season.
As of now, everything is still under speculation, but the fact that Netflix has a Castlevania show in the pipeline for 2017 should be enough to get the fans hyped. Alfred Bayle