It`s official: Castlevania showrunner Adi Shankar is making a Devil May Cry show, as the next part of what he`s referred to as `the bootleg multiverse.` After weeks of teasing, Shankar made the announcement today via IGN, and we`re incredibly excited.When we chatted with Shankar a while back about Castlevania and his movie Bodied, we asked the showrunner about how he approaches video game adaptations. Obviously, we were hoping to get a hint to how he might tackle his next show, which at the time was rumored to be a Zelda adaptation. Although it turned out to be Devil May Cry, we weren`t disappointed.`Absolutely, there`s a philosophy I have about [making game adaptations], and it spurred out of my Bootleg Universe short films,` Shankar told us. Bootleg Universe is Shankar`s YouTube channel featuring unauthorized short films starring pop culture characters like Punisher, the Power Rangers, and Mr. Rogers.`Those were made because I was a fan of the thing,` he said. In addition, he recruited other people for those projects who were either fans of the franchise and its characters, or of the genre he was working with for each specific short film. Shankar`s Punisher film Dirty Laundry, for example, is essentially a Western, so the people who worked on it included both Punisher fans, and fans of Westerns.`So I realized through this process, and I had this epiphany a few years ago, that there was this big business dichotomy between the feature stuff and the fan films,` Shankar said. `The fan films were real and fun and passion and fan service in the best possible way.` And he decided that should be the norm: `the idea that it`s made by fans, for fans. I think that is a core component, in fact it is one of the most important components, of the whole thing.``Now, that may seem super obvious,` he continued. But it`s not. Shankar shared that he was originally supposed to do a Castlevania adaptation back in 2012, shortly after that year`s well received Dredd movie, on which ...
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