A television universe of video games and characters that millennials grew up with is forming, and I’m not mad at it.
With several critically acclaimed gaming adaptations already in out and even more in the works at several networks, Netflix is now tapping PlayStation legend Crash Bandicoot for an animated series, according to a report by What’s On Netflix.
Not only that, but a top animation studio is the one behind it: WildBrain Studios, who recently worked on all three seasons of the recent Sonic the Hedgehog Netflix series, Sonic Prime, and may be primed to tackle another iconic 1990s gaming icon.
Netflix has released adaptation successes such as Arcane, Castlevania, Cyberpunk: Edge Runners, and The Witcher, and has several others in the works like a BioShock movie and Assassin’s Creed series, so it’s clear that video game stories being brought to a new medium will be the new normal for a while. And I’m totally cool with it.
This may not have been the case years ago, because it took decades and several terrible projects for networks to start producing some solid video game adaptations, in both TV and movies. But things are trending in a proper direction, spearheaded by series like HBO’s The Last of Us, which has been honored with nine Emmy Awards to go with 40 nominations in just two seasons. Prime Video’s Fallout, with its season two coming in December, is also worth a shout for its one win and 16 nods.
Crash Bandicoot and the whacky world around him began on the PS1 way back in 1996, and it’s rife with potential as an animated series, too, so we may be in for some more peak when it’s ready in a few years, if this report ends up being accurate.
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