A new trailer has finally been released as a well as a date of 2023 for the series.
Yeah I'm not feeling this like...AT FUCKING ALL and wasn't for the longest fucking time which is insanely disappointing for me to feel like since I loved the game and the story in it and required ZERO of the changes they made.
Enda Mc Nabola
So Alasie's girlfriend died, just like that? Classic Bury Your Gays.
Do we have any idea what platform/streaming service/channel/whatever it's going to be playing on?
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That's actually tied to one of bigger peeves in all of this in that Helena's sexual or gender preferences are never brought up in any way and if anything heavily comes off as Aromantic and/or Asexual and is heavily implied to have died in an accident of some kind likely involving a nature hike gone wrong and not suicide like in the trailer. On paper this really wouldn't be an issue if not to the absurd amount of clashing with how she's portrayed in the game as well as there not being a VA for Diana Altares. I can go into more detail, but it's a LOT to unpack, but others include a much older seeming John Dakheya...who is on The Island for some reason and not Scorched Earth. It's also...weirdly going heavily on the whole peacul settlers vs oppressive conquerors thing it feels like when that was never important except on The Island(to an extent) and even then it only pertained to Nerva.
Edited by doomrider7 on Dec 26th 2022 at 5:26:21 AM
I don't think that character is actually John Dakheya. I think he's supposed to be an original character named Thunder Comes Charging.
Pretty sure there was a character sheet and that it WAS him with that being his Native American name. I'll post it once I dig it up. All in all though, it's still MASSIVELY RADICAL shift in just about everything from the story in ways that make it completely different.
Edit: You might be right or that was an old promo thing, but I do recall them having a character list and there was a "John" listed there.
Edited by doomrider7 on Dec 26th 2022 at 7:05:12 AM
X4: No, that's still to be determined by 2023.
Furthermore, the description has a new synopsis, voice cast, and character listing:
- Dee Bradley Baker vocalizes many of the ARK's furry and scaly creature friends.
- Monica Bellucci plays Cassia Virila, a strong-willed Roman noblewoman during the Augustan Empire.
- Gerard Butler plays General Gaius Marcellus Nerva, a brutal ancient Roman despot.
- Devery Jacobs plays Alasie, a peppy 17th century Inuit teenager, now finding her place on the ARK.
- Cissy Jones plays The Gladiatrix, a formidable commander in Nerva's army.
- Madeleine Madden plays 21st century Australian paleontologist Helena Walker, newly awoken on the ARK.
- Deborah Mailman plays Deborah Walker, a 21st century Aboriginal Australian activist, and mother to Helena Walker.
- Zahn Mc Clarnon plays Thunder Comes Charging, a 19th century Lakota warrior who leads a thriving community on the ARK.
- Malcolm Mc Dowell plays Senator Lucius Cassius Virilis, a manipulative aristocrat during the reign of Caesar Augustus.
- Juliet Mills plays Chava, a wise healer and village councilmember.
- Elliot Page plays Victoria Walker, an idealistic humanitarian aid worker, and wife of Helena Walker.
- Ragga Ragnars plays Queen Sigrid, a bellicose 10th century Viking warlord.
- David Tennant plays Sir Edmund Rockwell, an egocentric 19th century scientist harboring dark ambitions.
- Alan Tudyk plays The Captain, a crusty buccaneer who profitably sails the dangerous waters around the ARK.
- Karl Urban plays Bob, a recent square-jawed ARK arrival.
- Jeffrey Wright plays Henry Townsend, an 18th century American watchmaker and Patriot spy.
- Michelle Yeoh plays Meiyin Li, a 3rd century Chinese rebel leader, known on the ARK by her reputation as the formidable “Beast Queen.”
- Ron Yuan plays Han Li, a 3rd century Chinese rebel leader and brother to Meiyin.
- With Russell Crowe playing Kor the Prophet, an eccentric ‘dino-whisperer’ hailing from a time before recorded history.
- And Vin Diesel playing 24th century ‘Mek’-pilot, gearhead, & freedom-fighter Santiago.
Series written by Marguerite Bennett and Kendall Deacon Davis, with fully-orchestrated music by Gareth Coker.
Yeah I had previously seen that list before and it was one of my MAJOR red flags since only like...five names from it are from the actual game(Helena, Mei-yin, Rockwell, Nerva, Santiago) and even THOSE don't resemble their counterparts from the game in any real ways besides the names.
Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
The show just surprise dropped on Paramount+. Today.
Source is Deadline: https://deadline.com/2024/03/ark-the-animated-series-paramount-plus-release-michelle-yeoh-russell-crowe-1235864121/
And I let my Paramount+ account expire a couple months ago.
Seriously though, they didn't even leave a damn trailer for this.
Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
Here’s a trailer:
I’ll give it a look after work.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Mar 21st 2024 at 7:33:44 AM
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
Disasturbator
not available in the UK booo
New theme music also a box
The Guy Rambling Online at Midnight
It’s a great show with plenty of tropes. I say let’s make a page for it.
Bazinga!
Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
WesternAnimation.Ark The Animated Series
There you go. Have a page image:
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Mar 26th 2024 at 12:43:42 PM
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
I dunno about great, but sure I'd like to read a page for it.
Edit: With that in mind, I think stuff from the game and the animated series should be kept separate as they're both VERY different works and often contradict each other.
Edited by doomrider7 on Mar 26th 2024 at 7:20:34 AM
How to make the storyline true to the game:
The main character is kidnapped while sleeping and awakens in a wooden cage with their pockets so full of poo they cannot move. Then they are assailed with slingshots by a tribe of whistling dwarves in power armor until they die from heatstroke.