Introduced throughout Opening Evening Reside, Amazon’s Secret Stage grownup animation anthology sequence from the folks behind Netflix’s Love Demise + Robots stole the present with its eye-catching trailer filled with online game variations. However one brief flew below the radar — and it appears prefer it stars probably the most fashionable actors on earth.
The glimpse and also you’ll miss it have a look at the Armored Core animation that’s part of the Secret Stage anthology sequence features a snapshot of a personality that appears loads like The Matrix and John Wick star Keanu Reeves. Test it out:
If that’s not Keanu Reeves, then I count on his agent can be on the cellphone to Amazon very first thing in the morning demanding a royalty fee. Certainly that is in truth Keanu Reeves — the face is immediately recognisable.
Reeves, after all, is not any stranger to the world of video video games. Most not too long ago he starred in CD Projekt’s 2020 motion RPG Cyberpunk 2077 as Johnny Silverhand. Now, in a shock transfer, he’s turned his consideration to FromSoftware’s Armored Core, which, whereas a well-liked sequence, will not be thought of one of many larger online game franchises round. However then, there are different shocking entries on the Secret Stage anthology listing. No-one was anticipating an animation for Unreal Event, for instance, or Spelunky, however right here we’re.
Secret Stage can have 15 episodes based mostly on numerous video video games. Right here’s the listing:
- PlayStation Studios
- Sifu
- Warhammer 40,000
- Unreal Event
- New World: Aeternum
- Dungeons & Dragons
- The Outer Worlds 2
- Pac-Man
- Honor of Kings
- Armored Core
- Mega Man
- Exodus
- Spelunky
- Crossfire
- Harmony
A phrase on the Warhammer 40,000 animation: Video games Workshop has confirmed it’s “impressed” by the upcoming online game Area Marine 2, which is due out in September. It stars “Titus and the boys” in animated motion, which is definitely one thing for Warhammer 40,000 followers to get enthusiastic about.
The 15-episode Secret Stage sequence premieres December 10. For extra, try every thing introduced at Opening Evening Reside.
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