Online Series: Rumored Blizzards Diablo Netflix series

[beowulf]

Diablo

Stay awhile, and take this with a pinch of salt: Revenge of the Fans alleges that Hellboy screenwriter Andrew Cosby has been hired to write a television series based on Blizzard Entertainment’s beloved computer game series, Diablo, for Netflix.

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[montreal]

sick if true but have heard rumors before.

 

[Osprey]

I was interested until I read the last line:

While I can’t confirm it just yet, I think it’s a safe bet that this Diablo series will be another animated venture, similar to Castlevania.

I loved the first two Diablo games because of their gritty realism and didn't like that Diablo III was missing some of that. An animated series (if it looks anything like Castlevania) will have even less. It's too bad because I've wanted a live action Diablo film since the 90s.

 

[Blender]

I agree that a live action series would be best, and a dark and gritty tone is a must.

 

[beowulf]

I was talking it over with a friend who I've played D1 and D2 with and we agree that it has to be a gritty live action series. Anything animated, even Blizzard animated, would just not be worth it.

 

[SniperHF]

I think Diablo would work better as a movie (or short mini-series like 3-6 episodes)
The amount of actual material for a full length series seems questionable....

 

[beowulf]

I think Diablo would work better as a movie (or short mini-series like 3-6 episodes)
The amount of actual material for a full length series seems questionable....

Really depends on how you look at it. The games themselves or the extended universe which includes a dozen novels that I am aware of.

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[Spawn]

I guess I'll go against the grain and say I think an animated series sounds like the right way to take it. Unless you're Game of Thrones, you're not going to have a TV budget to do this type of fantasy action and have it look any good.

 

[RandV]

I guess I'll go against the grain and say I think an animated series sounds like the right way to take it. Unless you're Game of Thrones, you're not going to have a TV budget to do this type of fantasy action and have it look any good.

Yeah if Game of Thrones skimps on putting Direwolves on screen how the heck are you going to make a good TV series based on material where it's one guy beating down hordes of undead, monsters, and demons? That's going to require a hell of a CGI budget.

 

[Blender]

Yeah if Game of Thrones skimps on putting Direwolves on screen how the heck are you going to make a good TV series based on material where it's one guy beating down hordes of undead, monsters, and demons? That's going to require a hell of a CGI budget.

I really don't think they should be trying to emulate the game play of the series in a film or tv series. No one is going to be very entertained by watching hours of dungeon crawling and loot gathering. The series has enough story to it to do something pretty interesting while also tossing in scenes of fighting demons or undead. Diablo came with an entire lore booklet back in 1996 that provided backstory on all the demons and a lot of characters, plus the game was full of exposition about past events. I think you could easily set a story starting with Leoric's rise to power, his descent into madness and Lazurus' scheming and betrayal, and build on things from there.

 

[Bjorn Le]

I guess I'll go against the grain and say I think an animated series sounds like the right way to take it. Unless you're Game of Thrones, you're not going to have a TV budget to do this type of fantasy action and have it look any good.

Games of Thrones didn't either in the first season. But yes, if you want to do Diablo properly, live action is probably far too expensive unless the show took off like Thrones and you never know these days.

Animated is fine depending on the art style. If it's like Castlevania that would be horrible but I can't see them going that way because Castlevania is animated in the Japanese anime style and that wouldn't fit Diablo at all.

I haven't really seen a (western) gritty animation style that really works well. I guess you could do something like Archer which is "more" realistic but even something like Clone Wars wouldn't work.

 

[Blender]

Games of Thrones didn't either in the first season. But yes, if you want to do Diablo properly, live action is probably far too expensive unless the show took off like Thrones and you never know these days.

Animated is fine depending on the art style. If it's like Castlevania that would be horrible but I can't see them going that way because Castlevania is animated in the Japanese anime style and that wouldn't fit Diablo at all.

I haven't really seen a (western) gritty animation style that really works well. I guess you could do something like Archer which is "more" realistic but even something like Clone Wars wouldn't work.

I think you'd have to go with something similar to Spawn or Batman: The Animated Series (only more gory like Spawn of course).

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Diablo2 please.

 

[beowulf]

Looks like it will be animated

Animated ‘Diablo’ Series Coming to Netflix

 

[Blender]

Looks like it will be animated

Animated ‘Diablo’ Series Coming to Netflix

The animation style chosen here will determine whether I will even give it a chance.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

Chris Metzen needs to stay far far far away from this. I don't know what happened, but somewhere between D2 and WC3 he went limp and lost what made him awesome, that being the dark, moody and gritty story telling he was able to pull off so successfully in all of his previous works.

 

[beowulf]

Still talk about Diablo animated series and also now an Overwatch series for Netflix

Diablo & Overwatch Video Game Anime Series Reportedly In The Works At Netflix

 

[Mantis]

They are all fun games but storywise

Starcraft>>>>Diablo>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Overwatch

 

[WeThreeKings]

I'm out if its animated.

 

[beowulf]

I'm not an anime fan, don't like the style and I would be unlikely to watch it at this point. I tried to get into the Castlevania netflix series and just couldn't.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I'm out if its animated.

agreed

 

[Eisen]

That game has a story to adapt to the screen? It's one dungeon grind after another.

 

[beowulf]

That game has a story to adapt to the screen? It's one dungeon grind after another.

There is indeed a story that started in the first and has evolved. There is also a ton of novels.

 

[Eisen]

There is indeed a story that started in the first and has evolved. There is also a ton of novels.

I did play the first two games and the story is very short, but I didn't know about the novels.

 

[Blender]

I did play the first two games and the story is very short, but I didn't know about the novels.

There is a ton of story in the first two games, it's just not the plot of the actual games, which is pretty simple and short. All of those tomes, character dialogue, the quest background you get, etc. contains a lot of plot, it's just plot that set up the situation your character has to resolve rather than be a part of.