Previously this month, Amazon revealed that it had actually purchased an animated series loaded with shorts based upon computer game like Spelunky and Mega Man, called Secret LevelNow we’ve gotten our very first take a look at the teaser trailer for the series, and it definitely appears like there’s a brief based upon Armored Corethe FromSoftware mech video games, the stars none aside from Keanu Reeves.
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Secret Levelout December 10, is being made by Tim Miller and CGI home Blur Studio, who lagged the very first Deadpool film and Netflix’s Love, Death & & Robots sci-fi anthology. The brand-new trailer revealed pieces of a lot of various shorts from the brand-new series, and among them certainly appears like 3 seconds of Reeves moving his head forward in the sweaty cockpit of a robotic.
Here’s the trailer:
Here’s the part that appears like Reeves:
Gif: Secret Level/ Kotaku
And here’s FromSoftware validating that it’s an Armored Core story:
Now there are 2 factors this is blowing fans minds. Reeves is remarkable, and in addition to starring in ageless classics like The Matrix John Wickand Point Breaklikewise provided an amazing efficiency as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077revealing you might bring A-list Hollywood skill to a hit computer game in a manner that felt sophisticated and made instead of as a low-cost cash-in (Idris Elba showed the very same in the video game’s Phantom Liberty growth in 2015).
2nd, Armored Core is a precious however reasonably unknown computer game IP to mine for an Amazon Prime adjustment. It’s a series understood for tense mech battles, ruthless post-apocalyptic sci-fi settings, and reliable however incredibly austere writing and storytelling. And naturally its red robotic eyes, which you can see in the teaser.
Pilots for these mechs are generally drugged up and entwined with all sort of unusual body-horror cyber-junk, and charged with keeping their existential crises at bay by blowing things up with huge weapons. Reeves appears ideal for the part.
In 2015’s Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon showed each of those virtues and was exceptional, however not precisely the kind of phenomenon you ‘d anticipate to start a trans-media cameo, even a fairly little one like representation in an anthology series. FromSoftware’s other video games, consisting of Dark Souls Bloodborneand the mega-seller Elden Ring all appeared like far more most likely prospects.
What Armored Core fans do not have in numbers, they offset with diehard commitment. If you question that, consider this five-and-a-half hour YouTube explainer on Armored Core VI‘s story which has more than one million views.