A year ago, the film producer Adi Shankar (The Grey) posted on Facebook that he was going to make a "super violent Castlevania mini-series" with the ambition that it would "be dark, satirical, and after a decade of propaganda it will flip the vampire sub-genre on its head." Now it turns out we're not going to have to wait much longer to see if Shankar can live up to these promises, since this TV show will launch on Netflix this year.
This was announced by Netflix in a press release and Shankar himself took to Facebook to write:
"Castlevania is a Netflix Original Series with Season 1 launching in 2017 and Season 2 in 2018. Furthermore, I personally guarantee that it will end the streak and be the Western world's first good video game adaptation."
We will of course get back to you with more information about this, but a TV series with the dysfunctional Belmont's, vampires, whips, old castles and Dracula himself... Sign us up! It's a big claim to promise the "Western world's first good video game adaptation", but do you think he can pull it off?