Castlevania producer Adi Shankar is teaming with creator Alx Preston for a television adaptation of the latter’s frenetic 2D action RPG video game Hyper Light Drifter, with the search currently underway for writers. A homage to classic 8-bit and 16-bit games, Hyper Light Drifter follows a Drifter, a collector of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and […]
Castlevania producer Adi Shankar developing Devil May Cry series
Last month, Adi Shankar – producer on Netflix’s acclaimed anime series Castlevania – revealed that he was partnering up with an iconic Japanese video game company to adapt one of their video game titles as a TV series. On the back on the tease, The Wrap reported that the project in question was an adaptation […]
Castlevania producer to adapt The Legend of Zelda as TV series
According to The Wrap, Castlevania producer Adi Shankar is set to adapt of another classic Japanese video game franchise, with the trade reporting that he is teaming with Nintendo for a TV series based upon on The Legend of Zelda. Created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, The Legend of Zelda was released in 1986 […]
The Punisher: All of the Different Frank Castles Ranked
Ahead of The Punisher on Netflix, Ben Robins ranks all of the different Frank Castles… In an almost unprecedented act of genius, Marvel’s long lost, secretly loved but consistently butchered anti-hero The Punisher is finally getting his own ultra-violent spin-off series. And with star of just about every crime/drama movie/series in the last few years […]
Brigitte Nielsen joins Adi Shankar’s superhero thriller series Gods and Secrets
Actress Brigitte Nielsen has signed on to play the main villain in Gods and Secrets, a new superhero-themed show from producer Adi Shankar (Castlevania). Nielsen will replace Glee star Mark Salling, who was charged with the possession of child pornography last year and subsequently removed from the project. Speaking to Variety, Shankar revealed that “I […]
Castlevania’s Adi Shankar developing Assassin’s Creed anime series
Adi Shankar, producer of the upcoming Castlevania animated series at Netflix, has taken to Facebook to reveal that he’s dipping into the world of video games once again for his next project – an anime based upon the hit franchise Assassin’s Creed. “I’m happy to let you guys know that I’ve selected my next project,” […]
Dredd producer wants to make “hard-R” Mega Man movie
Adi Shankar, producer of 2012’s Dredd, is up for making a R-Rated movie version of the classic video game Mega Man. Shankar is known for putting his own spin on his favourite childhood films and shows. Such as the bloody short film reimagining of the Power Rangers that got many desperate for a dark feature […]
Denise Richards and Jane Seymour join Adi Shankar’s Gods and Secrets
Yesterday we brought you news of a new “dark superhero drama” from producer Adi Shankar (Dredd) entitled Gods and Secrets, which is currently in development at HBO. The official announcement revealed that Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz, Sharni Vinson, Andy Milonakis and Diamond Dallas Page are set to star in the series, and now The Wrap […]
Adi Shankar to direct dark superhero drama Gods and Secrets for HBO
Adi Shankar, the producer behind the likes of Dredd and The Grey and the fanmade shorts Punisher: Dirty Laundry, Venom: Truth in Journalism and Power/Rangers, is set to make his directorial debut with the “dark superhero drama” Gods and Secrets. Deadline reports that the show “will mine territory similar to Alan Moore’s Watchmen, exploring the […]
James Bond bootleg animated short In Service of Nothing gets reinstated
Producer Adi Shankar has fought the fight and it looks like he may have, for the time being, won the war. A month ago his bootleg short Power/Rangers: Unauthorized & Hardcore was pulled from YouTube for copyright issues only to be later reinstated after an agreement was reached with Saban Entertainment. Now, similarly, his latest […]
