"Cuphead" Netflix Adaptation in the works

[Pickle Dick]

Netflix to Adapt 'Cuphead' Into Animated Comedy Series

The 2017 indie game has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Care for a cup?

Netflix and King Features Syndicate, a part of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication, are bringing the massively popular indie platforming game Cuphead to the streaming platform with the new animated series The Cuphead Show!

Cuphead, developed and published by indie game studio Studio MDHR, launched in 2017 to mass critical acclaim. The game features hand-drawn animations inspired by the classic Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s (and also offers up a hefty challenge for players). The game has sold over 4 million copies and won the best independent game award at the 2017 Game Awards and a BAFTA Games award for its music.

The new animated comedy will expand upon the characters and world of the game, which centers on titular hero Cuphead and his brother Mugman who make a deal with the devil in a high-stakes gambling match.

C.J. Kettler (Carmen Sandiego) will exec produce for King Features while Cuphead creators (and brothers) Chad and Jared Moldenhauer will serve as executive producers for Studio MDHR. The series will be produced by Netflix Animation and is executive produced by Emmy and Annie award winner Dave Wasson (Mickey Mouse Shorts). Cosmo Segurson (Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling) serves as co-executive producer.

The Cuphead Show! marks the first longform animated series production for King Features (which also own rights to popular comic properties such as Popeye, Garfield and Archie) since it announced its strategy to build character franchises across multiple platforms in February.

Cuphead is the latest video game to be adapted to the small screen, following earlier announcements of a live-action series based on The Witcher coming to Netflix later this year, a Halo series in production at Showtime, an adaptation of Ubisoft's Skull & Bones and a film and television universe built around the computer game Myst in the works at Village Roadshow.

So this is a thing now. I don't really follow anything Cuphead-related, nor do I think an actual cartoon adaptation of it is necessary, especially since I think most people forgot what Cuphead is at this point.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Get ready for even more degenerate rule 34 Cuphead shit...

 

[millais]

I hope the cartoon journalists will have less trouble than games journalists with it.

 

[The Nothingness]

How many characters will be updated due to their "problematic" look?

 

[BoingoTango]

GGAAAAAYYY

 

[Desire Lines]

Cautiously optimistic. If this stays true to the game, it's going to be great. The worst case scenario is flash tweened shit which I very much doubt they would have the balls to do considering how much Cuphead is praised for it's aesthetics.

 

[Pargon]

Netflix will greenlight anything, won't they?

BRB pitching my reboot of Unsolved Mysteries hosted by Nick Frost.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

and Netflix plunges further into debt....

 

[Dom Cruise]

This might be cool.

Netflix will greenlight anything, won't they?

BRB pitching my reboot of Unsolved Mysteries hosted by Nick Frost.

Netflix is doing a reboot of Unsolved Mysteries.

 

[Pargon]

This might be cool.



Netflix is doing a reboot of Unsolved Mysteries.

Hello, LegalShield?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

This might be cool.



Netflix is doing a reboot of Unsolved Mysteries.

wow, I am not optimistic for that

 

[FH 721]

Let's take a trip down memory lane and reminiscence about which Cuphead boss(es) made you foam in anger the most.

I still get nightmares about Grim Matchstick and Rumor Honeybottoms.

 

[RG 448]

Cautiously optimistic. If this stays true to the game, it's going to be great.

That’s about where I’m at. I watched my fiance play this game and it looked like a miserable grind, but the aesthetics were good.

 

[ProfDongs]

Considering they have a games worth of stills it seems possible they could use those as basis if not just directly using some for the animation. If they do any other type of style than whats the point? The game is only memorable for the art as far as I can tell, gameplay always seemed secondary to that oddly enough.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

But why, the game already tells the story the way it was meant to be told and looks better than anything Netflix could put out. There's literally no point.

 

[Red Hood]

But why, the game already tells the story the way it was meant to be told and looks better than anything Netflix could put out. There's literally no point.

Because game journalists want to be able to enjoy Cuphead too. A version where they don't have to touch a controller is right up their alley.

Will it be the Dark Souls of sitting on your couch and watching?

 

[Pargon]

Because game journalists want to be able to enjoy Cuphead too. A version where they don't have to touch a controller is right up their alley.

Will it be the Dark Souls of sitting on your couch and watching?

That would be any Simpsons episode made in the 2010s.

 

[millais]

Because game journalists want to be able to enjoy Cuphead too. A version where they don't have to touch a controller is right up their alley.

Will it be the Dark Souls of sitting on your couch and watching?

Bugged DVD menu mechanics!

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

If the show is hand-drawn and has plots/humor like the Fleischer cartoons its based on, it will be worth watching.

Otherwise, not.

I'm a little shocked they're making this.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Just wait until we learn this will be handled by Seth MacFarlane.