Hollywood producer, director, and screenwriter Adi Shankar has acquired the rights to Duke Nukem.
Shankar – who developed each the Castlevania and Satan Might Cry animated reveals for Netflix – advised Esquire he has “video video games in manufacturing”, and has been approached with “totally different IPs and firms that need to work with [him]”, in addition to “clearly extra” Satan Might Cry. In amongst that’s Duke Nukem, albeit “not the gaming rights”.
“I obtained video video games in manufacturing. Clearly extra Satan Might Cry,” he mentioned. “I am being approached with totally different IPs and firms that need to work with me. I purchased the rights to Duke Nukem. Not the gaming rights, however I purchased it from Gearbox.
“It is a center finger to everyone. When Duke Nukem blew up, a bunch of individuals sat round attempting to show it right into a model, when it is only a center finger. Duke Nukem cannot be made by a company, as a result of the second a company makes Duke Nukem, it is now not Duke Nukem. I do not intend on having anybody inform me what to do on this one.”
As for his Satan Might Cry present? Shankar mentioned Season 1 “needed to be the gateway drug”, however in Season 2, “the storytelling goes to pivot”.
“Season 2 goes to be totally different, stylistically and tonally, from season 1. Virgil is a giant, essential character. It is basically a brand new present,” Shankar added.
“I’ve objectives. I need to physique Arcane, surpass it in viewership… Arcane is the Joker lighting money on fireplace, and it is nice. With season 2 of Satan Might Cry, I need to beat that. Present as much as a tank combat with a water balloon and destroy the tank. As a result of that is cool.”
Celebrating Satan Might Cry’s newest gross sales milestone, Capcom mentioned the anime had been met with important acclaim and boasts greater than 5.3m views, and has now been renewed for a second season. Together with Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante, the primary collection of Satan Might Cry included legendary Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy as VP Baines.
“Netflix’s long-gestating animated adaptation of Capcom’s venerable hack-em-up provides Dante his blockbuster motion hero second,” reads Eurogamer’s Satan Might Cry season one assessment.
