Netflix and DreamWorks Animation have expanded their film and TV rights agreement, adding a number of original series and the studio’s feature film library in a pact that will bring DWA content to all markets outside of China, Variety reports out of a press release.
Beginning this year, Netflix will launch several new DWA-produced series, including a reimagining of the “Voltron” franchise, and “Trollhunters.”
“Trollhunters,” shepherded by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, “will unleash a new, fantastical world wrapped around two best friends who make a startling discovery beneath their hometown.”
Del Toro came aboard the project back in 2010 and was said to be Cloverfield-esque.
“I wanted very much to develop a story that could be written for kids but dealt with a genre that was scary,” del Toro explained back in 2010. “It essentially combines fairy tales with modern times and is about how difficult it is to be kid. Normally, kids are idealized in animated films. But the growing pains, married with the notion that there is a world right next to us that is completely plagued by creatures of ancient lore, it’s thematically fitting with the rest of my stuff.”
“Voltron,” on the other hand, needs no introduction. The popular 80’s cartoon follows five lion robots and their pilots who defend the planet Arus and the galaxy from evil King Zarkon. Readers 30 years of age or older probably had all of the toys…
