An animated Golden Axe collection is in the works at Comedy Central, primarily based on the fashionable Sega online game collection of the identical title.
Per a Comedy Central press launch, Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan has teamed with American Dad producer Joe Chandler to create a 10-episode Golden Axe collection that may take followers of the side-scrolling beat ’em-up arcade video games on an all-new journey with some of the franchise’s beloved characters.
Chandler will function showrunner and co-write the first episode with McMahan, which, based on the logline, will inform the story of “veteran warriors Ax Battler, Tyris Flare, and Gilius Thunderhead as they as soon as once more battle to save lots of Yuria from the evil big Demise Adder, who simply will not appear to remain useless,” although, it notes, “this time they’ve the inexperienced and underprepared Hampton Squib on their aspect.”
The voice solid options Matthew Rhys enjoying grumpy battle dwarf Gilius Thunderhead, Danny Pudi as inexperienced adventurer Hampton Squib, Lisa Gilroy as fearsome battle sorceress Tyris Flare, Liam McIntyre as barbarian warrior Ax Battler, and Carl Tart as humanoid panther Chronos “Evil” Lait, initially from Golden Axe III.
McMahan and Chandler will government produce the fantasy story of blades and magic for tv alongside Haruki Satomi, President and CEO of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., Shuji Utsumi, president and COO of Sega Company, and Sega’s Toru Nakahara, in addition to Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, and Toby Ascher of Unique Movie, and Titmouse’s Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, and Ben Kalina.
The primary Golden Axe recreation hit cabinets in 1989 however rapidly advanced right into a franchise comprising 4 video games in the major collection and a number of spin-offs. Sega introduced in December that it’s creating a brand new Golden Axe recreation, the first one since 2008’s Golden Axe: Beast Rider, as half of an initiative to revive a number of dormant franchises.
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