Zack Snyder has shared the first image from his upcoming Netflix animated series Twilight of the Gods, and it offers a first look at the art style.
When the project was first announced it was said to be an anime series, but this style is not the style of anime. It’s more in line with the styles of projects like The Secret of Kells and Wolfwalkers.
The Netflix project was announced a couple of years ago and it’s a Norse mythology series that will tell a revenge story.
When talking about the story for the series, Snyder said: “It’s basically this: there’s a king and his queen in a small Viking village, and they want to get married. An event happens to them at their wedding that causes Sigrid, who is the bride to be, who is the child of giants, to go on a crazy mission of revenge.
“She enlists a cast of characters – a seer, a dwarf – and they come together to form a band that has this one mission to find a god and fight him. It’s a mission, it’s a revenge story.
“Sigrid is this beautiful, very Scandinavian kind of cold but passionate character that I’ve really enjoyed working through and with because she’s just so cool. Sylvia Hoeks voices her.”
Snyder also said that the show will have “a lot of sex […] because that’s fun” and that the first season will consist of eight episodes.
When talking about developing an animated series, Snyder didn’t realize how much of an undertaking it would be: “I just think that it was one of these things that we kind of did not understand, first of all, the rigors of what it would take to make eight episodes of animation. If I had known, I don’t know if I would have done it.”
The full voice cast for Twilight of the Gods includes Sylvia Hoeks as Sigrid, Stuart Martin as Leif, Pilou Asbæk as Thor, John Noble as Odin, Paterson Joseph as Loki, Rahul Kohli as Egill, Jamie Clayton as The Seid-Kona, Kristopher Hivju as Andvari, Peter Stormare as Ulfr, Jamie Chung as Hel, Lauren Cohan as Inge, and Corey Stoll as Hrafnkel.
The series is set to be released next Fall.
