Having previously tried, courtesy of his well-received vampire adaptation, Castlevania—That there are beautiful and beautiful views Netflix announced today that it plans to give a similar treatment to 2017 Kong: Skull Island, as well as long duration Tomb Raider game and movie franchise.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, el Skull Island The program is being developed by Legendary Television, expanding the program deeply insecure real estate that appears heavily in the Samuel L. Jackson film. Sounds like the series is on Kong things—No one likes to overdo it—But it will have a lot of people trapped on the titular island and you’ll probably have a pretty hectic time there. Brian Duffield, who previously wrote The babysitter for Netflix, he will write and produce executives.
He Tomb Raider meanwhile, the program is being developed by Tasha Huo, who wrote about the upcoming broadcast Wizard spin-off, Origin of blood. Instead of working on elements of the current (Sto! Ben Wheatley directs the new one, for some reason.) with live action series by Alicia Vikander, the show will follow the latest trilogy of Tomb Raider games, which began with the simple reboot of 2013.
So far, Netflix anime adaptations have made the virtue of being short and sweet: come in, tell a story, kill some vampires, come out. We’ll have to see if these extensions of the “brand” (monkeys / vampires / action heroes that act briefly sad to kill, but then do a lot) can maintain this momentum.