At the Ubisoft Foresight Conference 2023 held today, the official announcement of this animated series “Captain Laserhawk – A Blood Dragon Remix” jointly created with Netflix, which is expected to premiere exclusively on Netflix in the fall.
This animation seems to be a work derived from the “Blood Dragon” DLC expansion pack of “Far Cry 3” in 2013, and it is also a fusion of Ubisoft IP and nostalgia for the early 90s .
Series creator Adi Shankar (producer of Netflix’s Castlevania series) said, “Seven years ago, I got a call from Ubisoft asking me to make an anime adaptation of their very, very, very serious IP”,” However, I come here with an idea inspired by the atmosphere of Blood Dragon. The concept is based on Ubisoft’s vast library of characters and finally mixed them into a fascinating anime series, which will become this letter to the 90s. love letter to … or at least my memory of the 90s.”
Shankar described the series as a violent, dystopian novel in the spirit of Aldous Huxley, but also a satire, dark comedy, love story and “what you’ve seen in a long time.” The most philosophically minded show.”