Duke Nukem Rights Acquired by Devil May Cry and Castlevania Showrunner

Netflix’s Castlevania and Devil May Cry showrunner Adi Shankar has turned his attraction to the Duke Nukem bid aft acquiring the surface rights from Gearbox Software.

The animated adaptation originative pb teased his adjacent task during an interrogation with Esquire. Although projects similar Devil May Cry Season 2 are presently apical of mind, it sounds similar thing based connected the legendary tongue-in-cheek first-person shooter franchise is presently successful the works.

“I'm being approached with antithetic IPs and companies that privation to enactment with me,” Shankar said. “I bought the rights to Duke Nukem. Not the gaming rights, but I bought it from Gearbox.”

Duke Nukem is an unmistakably ‘90s video crippled franchise that got its commencement successful 1991, but it wasn’t until 1996 that it would find its FPS footing with Duke Nukem 3D. Although a laundry database of sequels arrived passim the 15 years that followed, its 2011 entry, Duke Nukem Forever, was heavy criticized by critics and fans alike. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360-era rubric did truthful overmuch to harm the blond, buzzcut hero’s estimation that determination has not been a caller Duke Nukem installment since.

Shankar is already cooking up ideas for what a present-day instrumentality connected Duke Nukem could look like. It’s unclear if fans tin expect to spot an animated Duke Nukem amusement successful the vein of Shankar’s different projects, a movie, oregon thing wholly different, but it’s wide Shankar is trying to enactment unneurotic a task of immoderate benignant down the scenes.

“It's a mediate digit to everybody,” Shankar said erstwhile describing his imaginativeness for Duke Nukem. “When Duke Nukem blew up, a clump of radical sat astir trying to crook it into a brand, erstwhile it's conscionable a mediate finger. Duke Nukem can't beryllium made by a corporation, due to the fact that the infinitesimal a corp makes Duke Nukem, it's nary longer Duke Nukem. I don't mean connected having anyone archer maine what to bash connected this one.”

We’ll person to hold to spot what Shankar has successful store for the ‘90s icon. For now, nary casting, plot, oregon merchandise day details for the Duke Nukem amusement person been revealed. It's unclear however the caller rights aquisition volition interaction the Legendary Entertainment Duke Nukem movie reported connected successful 2022.

For a amended look astatine what to expect, you tin work up connected his different Netflix projects. We gave Season 1 of Devil May Cry an 8/10 successful our review, with Castlevania Season 1 earning an 8.1/10 from america upon its merchandise successful 2017. Shankar is progressive successful different Netflix projects, too, including the Castlevania: Nocturne spinoff series, an Assassin’s Creed series, and adjacent an animated PUBG show.

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