I’m ready to go Ultra-verse Photo: Netflix
When Netflix announced last year that they were working on the original animated movie Ultraman, it did so with a bold, evocative trailer image that made us wonder if it was just amazing concept work – or an actual indicator of how close the movie would look like this . It turns out that cute the answer is “very, very close.”
Today, Netflix released a new trailer for the still untitled movie directed by Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima. And while the streamer describes the incredibly neat shot – of Ultraman with his arms crossed firing his specium beam on a red-soaked city street – as “a bold new look taken from manga, anime, and of course the original series,” it’s … not quite that accurate.
Yes, the design of Ultraman itself is very classically similar to the costumes from the tokustatsu series, but it’s nothing like Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi’s manga riff on the franchise, or his anime adaptation of CG, which is currently broadcast on Netflix. If anything, it looks like Ultraman referencing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a bold, bright, insanely stylish riff on a classic superhero icon. And hey, you know what? More superheroes should have their own Into the Spider-Verse, really. I’m glad Ultraman is coping with the program.
We’ll show you more about Netflix’s Ultraman plans once we find out.
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