While it has recently arrived on Netflix the film Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scarmaker (review here), second chapter of his science fiction saga, the director Zack Snyder has now shared a first official look at his next project: the Norse mythology animated series titled Twilight of the Gods. First announced in 2019, the series took a while to get to the screen, but it will finally debut on Netflix next fall, as confirmed by Snyder.
The project was described as “influenced by Anime“, but judging by this image, we’d say the animation style is more similar to that of the Oscar-nominated Cartoon Saloon studio, which developed the Irish feature films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner And Wolfwalkers. Plot details are still mostly under wraps, but Snyder gave an idea of what to expect during an interview with Collider late last year.
“There is a king and his queen in a small Viking village and they want to get married. During the wedding an event occurs that pushes Sigrid, the future bride, daughter of giants, to undertake a crazy mission of revenge. He enlists a cast of characters – a seer, a dwarf – and they band together to form a group with the sole mission of finding a god and fighting him. It’s a mission, a story of revenge“. On that occasion Snyder also added that the series will contain “a lot of sex […] because it is fun“.
Zack Snyder’s new project: Twilight of the Gods
Twilight of the Gods was created by Zack Snyder Jay Olivia and Eric Carrascowith Snyder who will be the showrunner. Set in the world of Norse mythology, the anime will feature the voices of Sylvia Hoeks like Sigrid, Stuart Martin like Leif, Pilou Asbaek like Thor, John Noble like Odin, Paterson Joseph like Loki, Rahul Kohli like Egill, Jamie Clayton like The Seid. -Kona, Kristopher Hivju like Andvari, Peter Stormare like Ulfr, Jamie Chung like Hel, Lauren Cohan like Inge, Corey Stoll like Hrafnkel.
The executive producers are Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller, with the production of Carrasco. Zack Snyder and Jay Olivia they will direct the anime. Stone Quarry Animation developed the series in collaboration with Xilam Animationa Parisian production company that produced Oggy and the Cockroaches. Twilight of the Gods is rated TV-MA, with warnings for language, nudity, sex and smoking.
