Netflix and Legendary Order a Tomb Raider Anime Series
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Netflix is still making good on its promise to invest in anime, and it will do so soon with a very big adaptation. A new report has gone live from the entertainment giant concerning its partnership with Legendary. The pair are coming together to develop a
Pacific Rim: The Black.
According to the reports,
Tomb Raider will bring Lara Croft to life on screen like never before. A short logline was released for the series, and you can read up on it below:
The most iconic heroine in video games is jumping to animation! Tomb Raider is a new anime series from @Legendary following Lara Croft after the events of the video-game reboot trilogy.
King Kong & Tomb Raider Animes Coming to Netflix Through New Partnership with Legendary
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There aren’t too many details on the show’s story other than it seems to be a prequel to
Godzilla vs. Kong since in that film King Kong is removed from Skull Island. The series is said to be in an anime style of animation, a trend that Netflix leans hard into with its adult-oriented animated shows. In fact, the streamer is once again leaning on Powerhouse Animation, who is responsible for its successful
Published 27 Jan, 2021 Resting place defiler Lara Croft will be breaking into your TV screens to star in a new animated series an announcement that is giving me déjà vu, so full as my brain is of television adaptations of gaming series. This is indeed new information though, as announced by your friends at Netflix who cannot stop tossing cash at video game adaptations. Netflix announced the new show today, saying that the anime series will follow the events of the recent game series reboot by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montréal. Presumably that means we ll be picking Lara up as fully-fledged Tomb Raider after the events of the origin story trilogy. For a bit of a refresher on how that wrapped up, here s RPS s video review for the trilogy finale Shadow Of The Tomb Raider from 2018.
Netflix announces Tomb Raider, Skull Island anime series
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The shows hail from Legendary Television, which is also developing anime series Pacific Rim: The Black for Netflix.
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Tomb Raider video game trilogy that was capped off by 2018 s
Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Globe-trotting treasure hunter Lara Croft will return and embark on another adventure.
Tasha Huo (
Red Sonja) is writing and executive producing the series. Dmitri M. Johnson (
Sonic the Hedgehog), Stephan Bugaj, Howard Bliss and Jacob Robinson are also executive producing.
Skull Island will follow a shipwrecked crew attempting to escape from Skull Island, which is also home to other prehistoric monsters.
Legendary Sets ‘Skull Island,’ ‘Tomb Raider’ Anime Shows at Netflix
Series join the previously announced “Pacific Rim: The Black,” which is currently in productionReid Nakamura | January 27, 2021 @ 8:00 AM
Netflix and Legendary Television are teaming up on two more anime-style series, the two companies announced Wednesday.
The first will be based on the “Skull Island” film franchise and the second will be an adaptation of Square Enix’s “Tomb Raider” series of video games. The two projects join the previously announced “Pacific Rim” spinoff series “The Black,” which is currently in production.
“Skull Island” is described as a “new chapter” in the “Monsterverse” film franchise, which includes 2017’s “Kong: Skull Island” and the soon-to-be-released “Godzilla vs. Kong.” The new adventures series follows shipwrecked characters desperate to escape the most dangerous place on Earth a mysterious island home to prehistoric monster