Netflix announces two 'Far Cry' animated series, including spin-off series 'Captain Laserhawk'

The series will “remix” some of Ubisoft’s best-known characters.

Netflix has announced Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, an adult animated series that is one of two projects in the Ubisoft-inspired works Far away video game series. Captain Laserhawk is a derivative of the third installment of Dragon blood expansion, which saw Michael Biehn the voice of Sergeant Rex “Power” Colt in a tribute to the genre cinema of the eighties.

Adi shankar, is no stranger to the Netflix animated production that headlined all four seasons of Castlevania, is credited as creator and executive producer, with Ubisoft’s Hélène Juguet, Hugo Revon, Y Gerard guillemot Furthermore, he appears on the productive side of things, with animation studio Bobbypills that has been involved since 2019.

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Captain Laserhawk It will last for six episodes and will feature the alter egos of well-known Ubisoft characters in a tribute and pastiche of the action actors of the 90s on this occasion. The Far away franchise has sold more than 60 million units to date, with the next major entry coming in October with Giancarlo Esposito as the villain.

Shankar offered some Captain Laserhawk details on the Netflix Geeked Week event after the reveal, and it sounds wild. Set in a parallel universe where the boom in automated labor in the 1950s left most citizens unemployed, the world’s largest tech company, Eden, offers basic income support, but also manipulates to the population through mass surveillance and abuse of power. Cybernetically enhanced soldier Dolph Laserhawk is part of Eden’s army, but she’s planning a major heist so she can escape with her boyfriend.

An official release date has yet to be announced, but it’s the latest in a long line of collaborations between Netflix and Ubisoft, including a Far away anime adaptation as well as animation Splinter cell which is being supervised by John wick‘s Derek Kolstadwhile a live action episodic twist Assassin’s creed it is also in process. The transmitter previously acquired the rights to The division, the feature length adaptation of the Tom clancy game to be run by Rawson Marshall Thurber with Jake gyllenhaal Y Jessica chastain in the lead roles, in addition to Rob letterman signing to board Beyond Good and Evil last year, so all systems opt for console-to-screen translations.