Netflix turns Tomb Raider and Kong: Skull Island into anime

Having already proven – thanks to his well-received whippin vampire adaptation, Castlevania– that there are precious and precious views be pulled from the anime treatments of popular movies and games licenses, Netflix today announced that it is set to give similar treatment as in 2017. Kong: Skull Island, as well as the long tomb Raider game and movie franchise.

By The Hollywood Reporter, the Skull island is developed by Legendary Television, expanding the deeply insecure real estate featured in Samuel L. Jackson’s film. Looks like the series will go to light on the Kong Things-nobody likes to engage too much– but will feature a group of people who find themselves stranded on the titular island, and will probably end up having a pretty hectic time there. Brian Duffield, who previously wrote The babysitter for Netflix, will write and executive produce.

the tomb Raider show, meanwhile, is developed by Tasha Huo, who wrote on the next streamer Witcher spin off, Origin of blood. Rather than working in elements of the current (Suntil! Ben Wheatley is directing the new one, for whatever reason!) running Alicia Vikander’s live-action series, the show will follow up on the most recent trilogy of tomb Raider games, which started with the simply titled reboot in 2013.

So far, Netflix’s animated adaptations have made a virtue of being short and sweet: come in, tell a story, kill vampires, get out. We’ll have to see if those “brand” expansions (monkeys / vampires / action heroes who act briefly sad about killing but continue to do so). lot) can maintain this momentum.