The hit sizzling the hittie the hittie to the hit hit sizzling hearsay going round once more is that an animated sequence primarily based on Diablo is probably going coming streaming film-o-TV service Netflix. This newest action-RPG rumourburp is predicated on a now-deleted tweet by an aspiring showrunner however look, I don’t care if this hearsay is true or not. Let’s hijack the eye it’s raised and bend that in the direction of persuading Blizzard and Netflix to make what we actually want: a type of hour-long fire movies, with Deckard Cain hanging across the embers and greeting us “Stay awhile, and listen.”
We gained’t see Deckard on this video, after all. It’ll merely present a close-up view of a campfire, blazing and popping, as is the fireside video custom. It may have no monsters, no weapons, no bulging luggage of gold, solely a hearth. In the space we’ll hear Charsi clanging away, however the one one talking is our pal Deckard.
“Stay awhile, and listen!” he’ll greet us. Then say nothing for 23 or so minutes. “You have quite a treasure there in that Horadric Poker!” he’ll declare, earlier than falling silent once more. Towards the tip of the hour, he’ll pipe up “Have I told you about the Horadrim?” then trailing off because the video ends. That’s it. That’s all. Blizzard, Netflix, get on this.
Sadly, it appears they could be doing a little animated doodad as a substitute of this much better thought. Supposedly Andrew Cosby, a comics and TV author recognized for co-creating Eureka, is within the operating to deal with it. Rumours Rumours about Cosby’s Diablo have circulated since August, and on Thursday he appeared to verify that such a sequence is at the least deliberate.
“I guess I can confirm I am indeed in final talks to write and show-run the new Diablo animated series for Activision and Netflix,” Cosby mentioned in a tweet he has since deleted (however numerous webthings have stored cached). “It’s very exciting and I hope to the High Heavens it all works out.”
Of course tweeting it doesn’t imply he’ll land the job, that he’s even essentially within the operating (although that might be a bizarre joke), or that the present will go forward. Cosby, fire, y’hear me?
Netflix have dabbled in video game cartoons earlier than. Their Castlevania sequence, written by Warren Ellis, is because of return shortly before Halloween.
