{"id":24121,"date":"2018-06-08T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/netflix_has_already_renewed_castlevania_for_a_third_season_says_belmont_voice_actor"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:50:00","slug":"netflix-has-already-renewed-castlevania-for-a-third-season-says-belmont-voice-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/netflix-has-already-renewed-castlevania-for-a-third-season-says-belmont-voice-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Has Already Renewed Castlevania For A Third Season, Says Belmont Voice Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/netflix_has_already_renewed_castlevania_for_a_third_season_says_belmont_voice_actor\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/netflix_has_already_renewed_castlevania_for_a_third_season_says_belmont_voice_actor\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Fangs for the memories\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/netflix_has_already_renewed_castlevania_for_a_third_season\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/netflix_has_already_renewed_castlevania_for_a_third_season\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fangs for the memories\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/07\/feature_castlevania_season_1_review_plenty_of_blood_bad_language_and_bite\">We really liked Netflix&#8217;s <strong>Castlevania<\/strong> series<\/a>. Adapting a beloved franchise is always tricky, but it struck the right balance between doing something fresh and new with the source material and honouring the original games &#8211; in this case, the story of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/castlevania_iii_draculas_curse\">Castlevania III<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The series clearly did well enough as Netflix renewed it for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/castlevanias_second_season_airs_on_netflix_this_summer\">second season of eight episodes last year<\/a>, due to air this summer. Now, actor\u00a0Richard Armitage &#8211; who voices Trevor Belmont and is perhaps most famous for his role in <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong> films &#8211; has revealed that a third season has already been ordered by the streaming giant.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/castlevania\/news\/a858887\/castlevania-season-3-renewal\/\">Digital Spy<\/a>,\u00a0Armitage said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019re about to record a third. The second season hasn\u2019t been aired yet, but we\u2019re about to do a third.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also spoke a little about the upcoming second season, which picks up with Belmont joining forces with Alucard:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The son of Dracula [Adrian Tepes, voiced by James Callis] and my character get much more collaborative. I think that\u2019s one of the most exciting things, they start to really work together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also said that he&#8217;d love to do a live-action movie, something that has been attempted in the past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2009\/05\/castlevania_movie_bites_the_dust\">without much success<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I love my character in\u00a0Castlevania&#8230; he&#8217;s this anti-heroic, drunk, slightly foul-mouthed, irritable git! I feel like it would make the most brilliant live-action piece. It&#8217;s slightly anarchic and humorous \u2013 we don&#8217;t often see vampire heroics in that vein. One day, maybe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let us know if you&#8217;re looking forward to more animated Castlevania by posting a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We really liked Netflix&#8217;s Castlevania series. Adapting a beloved franchise is always tricky, but it struck the right balance between doing something fresh and new with the source material and honouring the original games &#8211; in this case, the story of Castlevania III. The series clearly did well enough as Netflix renewed it for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}