Netflix Announced Castlevania Animated Show

Netflix Announced Castlevania Animated Show

It was recently announced by Netflix the first season of a Castlevania animated series, Netflix also revealed Castlevania Season 1, Part 1 will be arriving this year, though no specific date was revealed. Netflix’s website lists the series as a four-part season, with each episode running for approximately 30 minutes.

According to Netflix’s official description of the series, Castlevania will focus on the game franchise’s Belmont clan, as it follows “the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself.”

“Inspired by the classic video game series, Castlevania is a dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself. The animated series is from Frederator Studios, a Wow! Unlimited Media company, written by best-selling author and comic book icon Warren Ellis and executive produced by Warren Ellis, Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert and Adi Shankar.

 IGN spoke with producer Adi Shankar following the announcement, and he confirmed that the show will indeed be an adaptation of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, but could not give further plot details at this time.

“This is very much Castlevania done in the vein of Game of Thrones,” Shankar said of the project, noting that Warren Ellis, who wrote the series and is on board as a producer, “added so much depth to the material.” Dracula’s Curse followed Trevor Belmont as he fought to stop Dracula from ravaging Europe in the 1400’s. Those fighting with him included Alucard, Dracula’s son.

“[The series is] going to be R-rated as f***,” Shankar said of the series’ level of violence, as many entries in Konami’s game series were rated M for mature due to blood and violence”

For more information, check the source at IGN.