Tim Miller, who we all know for steering Deadpool, and creating Love, Dying & Robots, has opened up a bit about his upcoming animated anthology collection at Amazon titled Secret Stage.
Whereas chatting with Selection on the Lucca Comedian and Video games conference in Italy, Miller talked concerning the inspiration behind the present, saying:
“It looks like a easy concept: Take characters from video video games and inform unique tales. It’s what my firm Blur has been doing for nearly 30 years now.
“Once I offered Love, Dying & Robots to Netflix, I performed a reel of recreation animation from Blur studio and stated, ‘Give us some cash and we’ll provide you with extra shit like this.’
“Right here we now have 15 completely different video games, and so we get the fanbase from all these video games from Warhammer to Sifu. It’s a tide that may elevate all of the boats on this harbor.”
When requested how troublesome it’s to adapt video games, Miller defined: “You wish to honor the sport, however you additionally don’t wish to make the fabric so area of interest it doesn’t embody individuals who haven’t performed the sport. We’re working very intently with the builders.
“They provide us the lore and inform us what the followers discover attention-grabbing. We approached these writers from Love, Dying & Robots. Many play video games, so they’d affinities for particular video games. They pitch us tales set in these worlds. We choose the very best.
“They write a prose model of the story, a brief story, mainly. John Scalzi wrote one, and Peter Watt wrote the ‘Armored Core’ episode. He’s one of the attention-grabbing science fiction writers on the market.
“It’s completely different voices from all kinds of genders, ethnicities and backgrounds. It’s not simply two white guys sitting in a room.”
When requested what the subsequent degree is in his personal profession, Miller responded hopefully, saying: “The sport builders stated, ‘We loved this course of a lot.
“What do you wish to do subsequent?’ So hopefully, Amazon sees the potential to deliver to this gaming viewers a brand new solution to get pleasure from their characters and worlds.”
This sounds prefer it’s going to be a enjoyable collection for followers to get pleasure from. Every episode of Secret Stage serves as “a gateway to a brand new journey, unlocking thrilling worlds from beloved gaming classics and extremely anticipated new titles.
Put together for an unforgettable journey, the place Amazon MGM Studios and gaming’s most interesting unite in a first-of-its-kind occasion that brings collectively extra recreation IP in a single collection than has ever been completed earlier than.”
Right here is the listing of video games that impressed the 15 epic tales discovered within the collection: Armored Core, Harmony, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, PAC-MAN, PlayStation (Highlighting numerous PlayStation Studios beloved entities), Sifu, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds, Unreal Event, and Warhammer 40,000.
Secret Stage might be accessible solely on Prime Video on December 10.
