Vampire Survivors dev admits it has no plot but is getting a movie anyway

Developer poncle has casually dropped the quality that Vampire Survivors is getting a unrecorded enactment movie portion teasing much cross-media projects to travel successful 2025.

When adjacent games hardly anyone remembers, similar Sega’s Eternal Champions, are acceptable to person movie adaptations, it should travel arsenic nary astonishment to perceive that indie deed Vampire Survivors has secured its ain unrecorded enactment movie deal.

This is connected apical of the animated TV amusement that was announced successful 2023. Both adaptations are being produced by Story Kitchen, which seems to beryllium a go-to for specified projects, arsenic it’s besides handling Amazon’s upcoming unrecorded enactment Tomb Raider show arsenic good arsenic the Streets Of Rage and Shinobi movies for Sega.

Developer Luca ‘poncle’ Galante has had thing factual to stock astir either project, but helium has acknowledged that some volition beryllium tricky to get right, due to the fact that of the game’s astir implicit deficiency of story.

This is thing we discussed regarding Sega’s movie plans, wherever the institution seemed to beryllium oblivious to the information that astir of its aged games had lone the flimsiest of narratives.

However, Galante does look to beryllium alert of this evident problem. In a caller Steam post recapping each of 2024’s Vampire Survivors content, helium talks astir however helium and his squad wanted to instrumentality their clip uncovering the close partners for adaptations due to the fact that of however hard specified projects volition be.

‘Rather than jumping the weapon and marque worldly for the involvement of making it, we person preferred to hold to find partners that felt right, particularly due to the fact that to marque thing that isn’t a video crippled retired of Vampire Survivors requires bully ideas, creativity, and that quirky cognition of the game, that is simply a precise hard triplet to get 100% right,’ explains Galante.

That said, helium does find the imaginable exciting, specifically due to the fact that of Vampire Survivors’ deficiency of a due story, adding: ‘Nobody tin truly expect however a movie astir it is going to be.’

For what it’s worth, Vampire Survivors does person immoderate backstory involving a Dracula stand-in called Bisconte Draculó, who unleashes monsters successful agrarian Italy, which prompts the Belpaese household to halt him.

It’s each precise Castlevania, but this does spend a vague ground for a movie oregon TV amusement plot, portion allowing tons of originative state with however the characters and wide code are handled.

In fact, that’s precisely what Galante suggested erstwhile we spoke with him past year: ‘In Vampire Survivors, determination isn’t a beardown and coherent narrative. For maine that’s a precise beardown point, actually. Because whoever is penning the TV series, the movie, whatever… it gives them originative state to archer immoderate communicative they want.’

Galante has besides teased different cross-media projects that the squad is hoping to uncover aboriginal this year, though you astir apt shouldn’t expect immoderate in-depth teasers for the movie oregon TV show.

Both projects are apt inactive successful the aboriginal stages and Galante besides says that they’re ‘respecting each the strikes,’ which suggests the ongoing Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) strike is having an interaction connected production.

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