{"id":48489,"date":"2021-01-27T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=48489"},"modified":"2021-02-11T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:43:17","slug":"netflix-orders-skull-island-tomb-raider-animated-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/27\/netflix-orders-skull-island-tomb-raider-animated-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Orders SKULL ISLAND, TOMB RAIDER Animated Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/animated-king-kong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/animated-king-kong.jpg\" alt=\"King Kong\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/animated-king-kong.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/animated-king-kong-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netflix has ordered up two animated series &#8211; <em>Skull Island<\/em>, home of Legendary&#8217;s Monsterverse&#8217;s version of King Kong and <em>Tomb Raider<\/em>, based on the popular video game and occasional movie franchise.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/netflix-orders-skull-island-tomb-raider-anime-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, <em>Skull Island<\/em> will center on &#8220;a group of shipwrecked characters trying to escape a dangerous and mysterious island,&#8221; with presumably one of those dangers being a rather oversized ape. Underwater scripter Brian Duffield is set to write and executive produce the series with Powerhouse Animation, the studio behind Netflix&#8217;s Castlevania series, will be doing similar duties here.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Tomb Raider<\/em> series is set to serve as a sequel to the 2013-18 reboot trilogy of video games from game publisher Square Enix. Tasha Huo, (<em>The Witcher: Blood Origin<\/em>) is set to write and executive produce the series.<\/p>\n<p>No other talent has been announced for either series, nor has an expected release date been scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The streaming service is adding two new animated series based on popular existing franchises.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/27\/netflix-orders-skull-island-tomb-raider-animated-series\/\" title=\"Netflix Orders SKULL ISLAND, TOMB RAIDER Animated Series\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10285],"tags":[3737,7390,3714],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv-news","8":"tag-netflix","9":"tag-skull-island","10":"tag-tomb-raider"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48489"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=48489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}