Cuphead Is Getting Its Very Own Netflix Show

Well that was unexpected...but somehow not surprising. The animation in that game is absolutely stellar. Might as well expand upon it.

This is very very cool

Could be cool. Or it could go very, very wrong, as Netflix adaptations often do.

The style and feel of the animation are probably the most important thing. Opt for something that doesn't look hand-drawn and you've already lost me and a bunch of other people.

If this Cuphead show has voice acting I want to have Mark Hamill to voice the Devil.

Or track down an old Walt Disney Treasures DVD. They're OOP now, but Silly Symphonies was excellent.

This is awesome!
Could be very cool

What?! They can do this but wouldn't pick up the new The Tick?! Well, hope this turns out great for the fans!

And still not coming to PlayStation

@Yas I'd highly recommend the "Cartoons That Time Forgot" volumes too. Mostly UB Iwerks stuff. They're out of print but vol 1 and 2 can still be snagged on Amazon or Ebay for reasonable prices.

Hopefully it’s actually able to capture some of the spirit of those cartoons. I loved that very fire and brimstone kind of philosophy. Depicting the world as a jungle of traps and doom played for laughs with no respite for the wicked, and everything is bizarrely anthropomorphized.

I'm intrigued. And it's encouraging that Netflix has some quality animated originals already. So hopefully, this follows suit

This is cool. I love the art style of the game but it's not my type of gameplay so I haven't bought it, so I'm glad I'll hopefully be able to enjoy its style in another form.

I love the 1930's art style. It's so iconic. I just hope netflix can nail it.

@ryancraddok you are not mentioning the TLoZ inspired series here! Was this unintentional or project is not moving forward?

@KingBowser86 Just finished season 2 of Tick on Sunday, and am heartbroken it's not getting a 3rd. But sure... Let's give Cuphead a go...

I dont like the game as it's mainly boss battles, but the visuals look great so will probably watch it, provided it's as weird as the 90s Felix the Cat cartoons

If this looks anything like the game then I can't wait

@NintendoFan4Lyf Amazon dropped it recently, and they tried to get picked up by Netflix/Hulu with no takers. For as much as I enjoyed that show, I'm surprised no ones interested. I guess the ratings just weren't there.

Netflix Animation, King Features staff plus Dave Wasson (Mickey Mouse Shorts) and Cosmo Segurson (Rocko’s Modern Life) are involved.

Cuphead co-creator Chad Moldenhauer “The current goal is to stay as far away from [computer-assisted] puppeteer animation as possible,” he added. “The idea will still be that every frame is hand-drawn” but probably not on paper. “It’s going to be hand-drawn but digitally. ‘Tradigital’

Why is such info lacking in this article?

@NintendoFan4Lyf It's no joke. When Amazon didn't renew for Season 3, show runner Ben Edlund approached every other service to continue the show. No dice...
Hoping the Emmy's change things.

@LaytonPuzzle27 Mark Hamill plays a good villain, he ought to voice the Devil himself!

might cheek it out hopefully is good unlike the game

Netflix, you're greenlit.

Now here's something that you didn't think would exist.

@KBuckley27 What a garbage comment, the game was one of its kind and is very challenging yet enjoyable. It's not a rush mess like the many triple A garbage that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo kept pouring on us.

Wait slow down wh wh how can they afford this

@Folkloner Thanks for the extra info. I was excited about this news already, but seeing involvement from the same people that made the wonderful Mickey Mouse Shorts makes the news even better.

Okay l'm very shock
but also on the same time l'm not, because wait when the show gets so popluar and good, Netflix will cancel it.

If their listening I got some more suggestions for Netflix

@retro_player_22 To be fair the 'triple A' garbage you're referring to is generally third party publishers. We all know who the worst are for this practice, but yet people still buy them so it won't change

cuphead's eyes look weird to me.

I brought this up on Steam a while ago and everyone bashed me for it...lol

The streaming giant also has a The Witcher series in the works, and the crossovers work the other way around too as Netflix's Stranger Things saw its brand new third season launch alongside a new Switch game on the same day.
Let's not forget the reboot of The Dark Crystal either, for that show is getting its own game as well... Even if it is a tactics game seemingly made for mobile phones.

I'd be very surprised if this maintained the level of accuracy MDHR achieved with the style. I've seen many attempts over the years to imitate classic cartoon era animation, and they've never gotten it right until Cuphead. It's been proven quite hard to do even a short sequence that really gets it right, let alone keeping it up for a series.

That's one of the key things that impressed me about the game - that they actually understood and emulated the whole look of the 30s without any modern influences creeping into it.

I'm also not sure if the characters and setting can sustain good stories, but I would at least give them a chance on that aspect.

Cool, I guess — BUT WHERE'S THE PHYSICAL RELEASE??? Seems like the priorities are out of whack!

Oh man I wanted a CGI live action Garfield style production 😭

I'm less likely to get frustrated watching Cuphead rather than playing it.

Great I feel even more pressure to beat the game...stuck on king dice😡

all i know is that more and more people are cancelling netflix in favour of Prime and several other competitors.

i'm stickin wit hulu

Why even try? They end up canceling everything I love..

I mean, the sample image there doesn't look awful, but the whole point of Cuphead is how it evokes the look and feel of a particular era and style of animation, so changing up the look is an odd choice, though not necessarily one that means the show will be bad, though it does create an obstacle to attracting fans of the game which seems to defeat the purpose of licensing it in the first place.

Oh DANG!
Netflix BETTER pay for an antique multi-plane camera and an army of people to hand paint celluloid sheets for this one!!

If they take the time and effort to replicate the 30's and 40's animations style then yeah, I'm excited.

@Mycroft
No need for a fight because you're right. There's a nice video where the two versions of Land of Chocolate (from the original episode and the Simpsons Video Game version) are compared:
https://youtu.be/S_91Id0ZYGY

Okay Netflix, now I love you!

Nice for the people who played the game. Me? I have yet to play the game...