Amazon Prime Video has reportedly ordered a brand new animated anthology sequence that can function brief tales set inside completely different, pre-existing online game worlds. The sequence is being created by Tim Miller, the identical particular person behind Netflix’s fashionable Love, Demise & Robots sequence and the primary Deadpool film.
Miller’s Love, Demise & Robots premiered in 2019. The sequence options numerous brief tales animated by completely different studios in several artwork kinds. Episodes usually revolve round a theme or matter and tales can fluctuate significantly, generally that includes robots, components of horror, sci-fi, and even comedy. And now Amazon desires to take this identical system, however apply it to video video games.
On August 14, Deadline reported that Amazon has ordered a sequence referred to as Secret Stage from Miller and Blur Studio. Like Love, Demise & Robots, the brand new sequence will likely be an anthology, with every episode set in a special online game world or franchise. Deadline stories that some potential video games that would seem in Secret Stage embrace beloved indie platformer Spelunky, Amazon’s personal MMORPG New World, and numerous, unspecified “PlayStation titles.” Every episode of Secret Stage will probably encompass brief tales set in these completely different video games.
Amazon Prime Video reps declined to offer Deadline with a remark.
Deadline stories that Secret Stage will likely be formally revealed and introduced quickly. The outlet means that it would get unveiled at Gamescom 2024 Opening Night time Stay, 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 couple of years, we’ve seen an enormous improve 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 based mostly on the Yakuza/Like A Dragon franchise, too.
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