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"Tomb Raider", "King Kong" and more: These films and games get their own series

2021-01-29T10:49:32.425Z


In the next months and years there will be series replenishment on Netflix & Co. The heroes of many planned productions are known from films and video games.


In the next months and years there will be series replenishment on Netflix & Co. The heroes of many planned productions are known from films and video games.

The series material should not become scarce in the next few years.

Streaming services and showrunners are already announcing which innovations will soon go into production.

Several series based on

games

,

films

or

novels

were recently announced

.

In some cases they are even considered to be continuations of well-known stories.

To be precise, there will soon be a series for

"Tomb Raider"

,

"Kong: Skull Island"

and

"The Great Gatsby"

.

Learn more about the details below.

Netflix is ​​working on the "Tomb Raider" series

We know

Lara Croft

from the

"Tomb Raider" video games

.

The actresses

Angelina Jolie

and

Alicia Vikander

have already embodied her in the films of the same name.

It will stay with these two actresses for the time being, because Netflix * is planning an

anime series

for the popular game.

As

reported by

Deadline

magazine, among others

, the story should begin after the end of the game

"Shadow of the Tomb Raider"

.

So the planned series is a sequel of the games.

When it will appear is not yet known.

Netflix

also doesn't offer a trailer or footage yet.

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Netflix plans series for "Kong: Skull Island"

Parallel to the announcement of the

"Tomb Raider" series

,

Netflix has

other positive news: The popular monster

King Kong is also

getting its own animated series.

In the planned

"Kong: Skull Island" production

, shipwrecked people will once again land on Kong's dangerous home island, explains

Deadline

.

However, it is likely that these are not the same characters who had to fight for survival in the film of the same name.

In this case, too, the start date of the first season has not yet been announced.

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more

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"Vikings" maker is working on "The Great Gatsby" series

"Vikings" ended after the 6th season.

So it is time

for showrunner

Michael Hirst

to devote himself to new projects.

One of them is said to be a mini-series based on the famous novel "The Great Gatsby" (promotional link) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

As

The Hollywood Reporter

reports, Hirst would like to pay particular attention to the Black community of the 1920s and also to focus on the musical subcultures of that time.

It is possible that the audience can expect a

very unusual adaptation of the book

.

It is currently unclear on which station or streaming service the series will appear.

Hirst would like to negotiate with several possible partners in the near future.

(soa) * tz.de is part of the Ippen-Digital-Netzwerk.

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Source: merkur

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