Written by best-selling author and comic book legend Warren Ellis and inspired by the classic video game series from Japan’s Konami, Castlevania is a dark medieval fantasy that follows the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepes himself. The voice cast includes Graham McTavish (The Hobbit, Outlander, Preacher) as Dracula, Richard Armitage (The Hobbit trilogy) as Trevor Belmont, James Callis (Battlestar Galactica) as Alucard, Emily Swallow (Supernatural) as Lisa, Matt Frewer (Orphan Black) as The Bishop, Tony Amendola (Annabelle) as The Elder and Alejandra Reynoso (G.I. Joe: Renegades) as Sypha Belnades.
Warren Ellis, Kevin Kolde, Adi Shankar and Fred Seibert are executive producers. Production services are provided by Austin, Texas based Powerhouse Animation with Brad Graeber supervising producer, Jason Williams as producer, and Sam Deats as director.
The series, which is based on Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, only has four episodes, each spanning anywhere from 23 to 30 minutes in length. A second season has already been ordered. The series brings a mature and adult approach to storytelling and the faithfulness of the adaptation, which does not hold back on the level of violence. Season 1 hit netflix today.
Just finished the season. It's crazy good. Fluid animation. Reminds me of Reign: The Conqueror, which was a great series itself. You all will like this once you get around to watching it.
Finally got around to watching the first season now that the second one's coming out. I don't remember a lot of the Castlevania games, but man for fans of the series that must have been great. It took me a while, but + Show Spoiler +
Once the wizard came out, I was like "wait a second, I remember this! Holy shit, does that mean that Alucard is gonna come out? OH SHIT THE SLEEPING SOLDIER!
. Action was pretty good and I really like what they did with Trevor's character. Hopefully second season is just as good, especially around Halloween.
I am still kinda shocked this series is as good as it is. It should be trash that no one invested money or talent into. But somehow they MCUed Castlevania into the best and purest parts what makes it compelling. The characters are fun, with Trevor set to play the humor to Alucard's melodramatic straight man.
It understands vampires fiction has sexual, straight/gay overtones and uses that for pretty great visual humor(watch the last moment of the last fight of season one again). The writers take their time to make Dracula be sympathetic on some level, even if the end result is way over the top that only a man with a floating teleporting castle can really see as justified. A lesser series would have gotten right into the monster killing, but they spend a whole episode on him and his wife.
Netflix has some great Halloween offerings this year across the board.
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