After proving before – thanks to the well-received vampire adaptation, Castlevania– that there are precious, precious views Netflix is announcing that it will provide similar treatment as in 2017 Kong: Skull Island, as well as the long-term Tomb Raider franchise of games and movies.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Skull Island program is developed by Legendary Television, which expands the program profound insecure real estate that appears a lot in the movie of LL Jackson. It sounds like the series is light on the Kong well-nobody likes to commit too much—But a bunch of people beaching on the island, and probably have a fairly hectic time there. Brian Duffield, who previously penned The babysitter for Netflix, will deliver writing and executive productions.
The Tomb Raider show is meanwhile developed by Tasha Huo, who wrote about the upcoming time of the streamer Witcher spin-off, Blood Origin. Rather than adding elements from the current (Sto! Ben Wheatley is directing the new one, for some reason!) starring Alicia Vikander’s live-action series, the program will apparently follow the most recent trilogy of Tomb Raider games, which started with the simple reload in 2013.
So far, Netflix’s anime adaptations have made a virtue out of being short and sweet: get in, tell a story, kill vampires, get out. We’ll have to see if these extensions to the “brand” (monkeys / vampires / action heroes who act briefly mourn the murder, but then do so very) can sustain that momentum.