The Big Picture Netflix recently debuted a brand-new adult animated series, Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, after a pretty lengthy wait for fans ready to feast on this “amalgamation” of video games and ‘90s nostalgia. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, creator Adi Shankar talks about the ideas behind Ubisoft's Far Cry: Blood Dragon spinoff series and the moves he made with the creatives to bring this universe to the screen.
SHANKAR: Yeah, and you know, through this process of the restraining order, you really blew up. Listen, you're like the Barbara Walters of the geek world. Not even the geek world now, it's just the pop culture. You're the Barbara Walters of pop culture. SHANKAR: So, I think there's two categories of things, right? One is original stuff because I would say Captain Laserhawk. You tell me if I'm wrong here because you're Frosty, but Captain Laserhawk is original. It's like an original thing, right? Then something like Devil May Cry, something like Castlevania, that's IP-based, right? It's a reinterpretation of the IP.
SHANKAR: 100%. I mean, Captain Laserhawk is part of the Bootleg Universe. It is the natural extension. It is the logical extension of where you go with these subversive fan films that are deconstructionist takes on IPs I grew up loving. Ultimately, that is 50% of what Captain Laserhawk is. SHANKAR: So I moved out here to do animation. This was my goal. When I first moved to LA, this was around 2008/2009, I made an Excel spreadsheet of all the different brands I dug growing up, everything from fucking G.I. Joe to Voltron to just everything. And I was like, “Okay, what is the brand? Who owns it? Who's optioned it? What's going on?” Because my goal was to do hard R takes on these different brands, right? I'm like, “Let's do hard R G.I.
This is something that I'm happy that this is being done. Let's jump into Captain Laserhawk. How did you guys decide you wanted it to be six episodes for the first season, or was it story-based? Was it budget-based? How did that number come up? Well, the thing is, though, A. I don't think it's in your DNA to pitch something normal, B. it's boring, C. that's the vanilla ice cream that makes no one excited. You have to mix it with sprinkles. Anyway, I want to continue. One of the characters I couldn't believe was in this was Rayman. I just was like, “Wait, what?” So, where did Rayman come from to put him in this series? Not his origin but the idea to make him an integral part of this show.
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