Netflix Announces Neil Gaiman Series, Zach Snyder Movie, Anime 'Terminator' and 'Exploding Kittens' (theverge.com) 33
Netflix's annual virtual event "Geeked Week" pre-announces its biggest upcoming shows. This year Netflix released a trailer for its upcoming adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, and for its new live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series. (And there's also going to be some kind of live-action Stranger Things stage show opening in London in December.)
Variety noted the "explosive" new trailer for Zach Snyder's new "action-packed space opera" Rebel Moon. The film — which will also have a one-week theatrical run in December — takes place in the same universe as Snyder's Army of the Dead. But instead of being set in Las Vegas, "The story centers on a young woman living on the outskirts of a galaxy who must find a group of warriors to save the galaxy from an invasion from a tyrant."
The Verge pulled together a good rundown of all the other announcements — one of which involves Neil Gaiman: Following last year's The Sandman, Netflix is bringing even more beloved Neil Gaiman characters to the small screen. This time it's Dead Boy Detectives — which was originally slated to stream on Max — based on a crime-solving duo who made their debut in a Sandman comic in the '90s. The news was paired with the first trailer for the series, which shows off a pretty fun-looking supernatural whodunit...
Netflix says the new eight-episode series is part of its growing "Sandman universe"... with Gaiman serving as one of the executive producers. [Coming sometime in 2024]
They're also launching several animated series.
Variety noted the "explosive" new trailer for Zach Snyder's new "action-packed space opera" Rebel Moon. The film — which will also have a one-week theatrical run in December — takes place in the same universe as Snyder's Army of the Dead. But instead of being set in Las Vegas, "The story centers on a young woman living on the outskirts of a galaxy who must find a group of warriors to save the galaxy from an invasion from a tyrant."
The Verge pulled together a good rundown of all the other announcements — one of which involves Neil Gaiman: Following last year's The Sandman, Netflix is bringing even more beloved Neil Gaiman characters to the small screen. This time it's Dead Boy Detectives — which was originally slated to stream on Max — based on a crime-solving duo who made their debut in a Sandman comic in the '90s. The news was paired with the first trailer for the series, which shows off a pretty fun-looking supernatural whodunit...
Netflix says the new eight-episode series is part of its growing "Sandman universe"... with Gaiman serving as one of the executive producers. [Coming sometime in 2024]
They're also launching several animated series.
- Netflix released a short teaser for Terminator: the Anime Series.
- An animated new take on Ultraman.
- An animated He-Man reboot, Masters of the Universe: Revolution (with Mark Hamill providing the voice of Skeletor).
- An adult animated comedy series based on the card game Exploding Kittens. (The Verge writes that its trailer "features god in the body of a cat and a very confounding garage door" — and that there will also be an accompanying mobile game.)
- Netflix also has a new Chicken Run movie coming in December with its own tie-in game called Eggstraction.
Dead Boy Detectives (Score:2)
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Captain Harlock (Score:1)
As long as they're bringing back shows, I would like to see a remake of the Captain Harlock and Grendizer animes.
My predictions (Score:4, Informative)
I predict if any of them are any good at all (which is unlikely), they'll just cancel after the initial 2 season pickup so they don't have to pay the increased price. I'll never forgive them for cancelling "Haters Back Off!"
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The movies I might watch if they get good reviews, and they are stand-alone in most cases. The shows... Unless the reviews are fantastic, I'll wait to see if they get renewed before investing any time in them.
Re:My predictions (Score:4, Interesting)
Netflix has Googled themselves into a classic chicken and egg problem. I don't trust them not to cancel shows on cliffhangers, so I don't watch shows until I know that they'll run to completion, and I'm not alone, so new shows don't gain an audiences (because critical masses are waiting to ensure they don't just get canceled), so they end up being canceled.
And, much like Google, Netflix needs to go a long way to regain trust, because they've canceled shows they had renewed. You can't trust Netflix if they say a show is getting a second season until they release the second season, much like you can't trust Google when they say that they'll keep a service running.
Plus, it's cheaper this way: I don't need a Netflix subscription to not watch Netflix shows because I assume they'll be canceled before they end.
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so I don't watch shows until I know that they'll run to completion
Modern Serials do not have a completion. It's a fools game you're playing, denying yourself entertainment because of a concern that the story won't be finished while the people writing the stories do not finish them on purpose.
If you don't want to watch them, just don't. No need to make up logically insane excuses.
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Wow (Score:3)
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I've been enjoying it.
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You mean the panademic. Everything went to crap. :(
Let's see how the netflix TBP compare (Score:3)
To the chinese version.
The CG is a bit goofy at times, but the series are quite good.
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Reading comments about the Chinese version, I think the key to the Netflix version will be to make the motivations and actions of the characters more understandable to a Western audience. People have been complaining that some of what happens doesn't seem to make much sense, and in every case it's because they don't understand why a Chinese person might say or do something, or think a certain way.
Good luck to them.
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Sometimes watching that show I wondered where the chinese censure bureau was hiding. Especially in the historical events depicted.
When I read that Netflix was doing the 3-body, my thought was; why? Then I sighed and thought back to every other time someone thought a remake could improve on the first version, because that happens, right?
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Maybe watching it you learned something about China.
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The chinese censors are probably not as overly sensitive as internet moderadors or north korea, as those probably got fired and fired at for causing more harm than good for the governments image.
But 3-body does a pretty good job painting as "current government good".
Anime Terminator (Score:2)
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The Terminator franchise just needs to be put to an abrupt end. It needs to be... eliminated.
T2 reused and exhausted the franchise's formula just about as far as it could go while still being a good movie. Everything starting with Rise of the Machines has been tropey hack job poo-poo. Took a cool idea and made it not fun anymore.
Terminator, He-Man, Avatar reboot/rehashes/reheats (Score:1)
...dozens of bland Marvel movies, a handful of Fart and Furious movies, Lego movies, Barbie movies (like... Lego and Barbie for real?! What next? My Little Pony vs Furby?).
What more proof do you need that the entertainment industry has simply quit trying to come up with new ideas and it just shamelessly milking older franchises for all they're worth?
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We need to stop rewarding them for rehashes is the problem.
With the news that the latest MCU movie is set to be the lowest performing one yet it might be sign for Disney to rethink it's approach on that franchise.
Good movies can come from licensed properties, in your examples Barbie was very successful for being a well written and produced feature that clearly is someone's artistic vision and that is the key. Same with that first Lego movie. It was a well written script with creative execution even workin
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What more proof do you need that the entertainment industry has simply quit trying to come up with new ideas and it just shamelessly milking older franchises for all they're worth?
Meh, my Disney+, Netflix and Amazon queues are so full of "new idea" programs it would take me a year to get through it all.
...but sure, trot out the tired old trope about how there is nothing "new" being released.
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I noticed you're hating on the Lego movies, suggesting them as an example of bad trends in cinema.
Are you trying out to be a character in The Eltingville Club?
Still Canceling (Score:3)
Netflix's annual virtual event "Geeked Week" pre-announces its biggest upcoming shows.
Still not enough to prevent me from canceling at the end of this month in response to their latest round of price hikes. The content just isn't worth what they're charging for it.
Tom Ellis (Score:2)
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has now played Lucifer, and God both. Seems a bit worrying.
His family is filled with priests. I'll bet reunions are great fun for him.
pass. (Score:3)
That's ok.
We were on the verge of dropping Netflix anyway.
I've been a subscriber since month 1 for the DVDs when they first started, were early subs to their streaming service, etc.
They were great, once, when they were the only game in town.
Now with Balkanization of the streaming market (not really Netflix's fault, imo) it's impossible to find much of anything on there I want to watch.
Their own content is hit or miss (which I'd expect) but I got pretty tired of the preachy woke bullshit. Glad to see they've apparently mostly abandoned it (out of financial necessity) and glad to see they've apparently done right by Chapelle.
But as we now see that our adult children are being blocked out by their password crackdown, nah, it's just not worth it anymore.
Netflix Games (Score:2)
The bigger part of the announcement (for me) is that they're adding Hades to their mobile games. Netflix has some decent mobile games that are included with a subscription. Into the Breach is pretty great and plays well on tablet. I'm sure Hades will be the same way.
Click to Hide (Score:2)
How about adding a crucial feature to the platform instead? The ability to permanently add titles to a blacklist from the UI? "Click to never see this title ever again."