{"id":49575,"date":"2018-09-21T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327078"},"modified":"2018-09-21T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:23:00","slug":"blizzards-diablo-series-tapped-for-possible-netflix-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/blizzards-diablo-series-tapped-for-possible-netflix-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard&#8217;s Diablo series tapped for possible Netflix show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision and Netflix look to be pulling together a team to develop an animated series based on Blizzard Entertainment\u2019s <em>Diablo<\/em> series, at least according to a now-deleted tweet from a possible writer on the project.<\/p>\n<p>If everything falls into place, this would see <em>Diablo<\/em> join the animated <em>Castlevania<\/em> series in Netflix\u2019s library of game-inspired content and adds another notable franchise to the growing list of games being picked up for TV and film adaptations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cosby, Hellboy writer and founder of the comic publisher Boom! Studios, tweeted yesterday that he is in final talks to sign on as the showrunner and writer for an otherwise unannounced <em>Diablo<\/em> animated series on Netflix. The tweet has since been deleted, but the folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/video-games\/3522810\/diablo-netflix-series-confirmed-andrew-cosby-final-talks-write\/\">BloodyDisgusting<\/a> were able to grab the text before Cosby removed the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I can confirm I am indeed in final talks to write and show-run the new <em>Diablo<\/em> animated series for Activision and Netflix,\u201d read Cosby\u2019s now-deleted Tweet. \u201cIt&#8217;s very exciting and I hope to the High Heavens it all works out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision and Netflix look to be pulling together a team to develop an animated series based on Blizzard Entertainment\u2019s Diablo series, at least according to a now-deleted tweet from a possible writer on the project. If everything falls into place, this would see Diablo join the animated Castlevania series in Netflix\u2019s library of game-inspired content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49575","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=49575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}