Amazon Prime Video has reportedly ordered a brand new animated anthology collection that can function brief tales set inside totally different, pre-existing online game worlds. The collection is being created by Tim Miller, the identical particular person behind Netflix’s well-liked Love, Dying & Robots collection and the primary Deadpool film.
Miller’s Love, Dying & Robots premiered in 2019. The collection options numerous brief tales animated by totally different studios in several artwork types. Episodes typically revolve round a theme or matter and tales can differ tremendously, generally that includes robots, components of horror, sci-fi, and even comedy. And now Amazon needs to take this similar formulation, however apply it to video video games.
On August 14, Deadline reported that Amazon has ordered a collection known as Secret Degree from Miller and Blur Studio. Like Love, Dying & Robots, the brand new collection will probably be an anthology, with every episode set in a special online game world or franchise. Deadline reviews that some doable video games that would seem in Secret Degree embody beloved indie platformer Spelunky, Amazon’s personal MMORPG New World, and numerous, unspecified “PlayStation titles.” Every episode of Secret Degree will possible encompass brief tales set in these totally different video games.
Amazon Prime Video reps declined to supply Deadline with a remark.
Deadline reviews that Secret Degree will probably be formally revealed and introduced quickly. The outlet means that it would get unveiled at Gamescom 2024 Opening Evening Dwell, aka Geoff Keighley’s online game extravaganza: August version.
That is simply the newest instance of streaming providers and studios investing increasingly more into online game adaptions. In the previous few years, we’ve seen an enormous enhance within the variety of video game-related productions, together with this yr’s critically acclaimed Fallout and the field workplace bomb that’s this month’s Borderlands film. Amazon produced the Fallout present and is already engaged on one other season, in addition to a present primarily based on the Yakuza/Like A Dragon franchise, too.
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