Overwatch Cartoon and Diablo Anime Seem to Be on the Way - IGN Nick van Dyck, who is the president of the film and TV division of Activision Blizzard, says he has worked on both of these unannounced projects in his LinkedIn profile. His profile lists him as being the executive producer of a TV adaptation of Diablo that is "rendered in anime style." Apparently it's in pre-production and will be distributed worldwide through Netflix. This isn't the first time we've heard about a possible Diablo animated series for Netflix. More of a surprise is that Dyck's profile also says that he has "developed and sold an animated series based Blizzard's Overwatch franchise." Nothing else about this is revealed. The fact that this has been "sold" suggests it isn't another of Blizzard's in-house Overwatch short films and is potentially a larger project. Where they now fail in games they could make up for it with this. People have been asking for an Overwatch series/movie for years...
Okay, Diablo has twenty three years of games and such to draw from but Overwatch is still a rookie at five years....
But Overwatch, by contrast, has a massive array of colourful characters and locales that people have been clamouring to see more of since the game's reveal. Diablo has 23 years worth of biblical end-times nerd-lore. There's plenty of room for both.
That's what OW2 is ostensibly for. But whatever, I'll take it all. The OW universe is too rich in potential to leave fallow like it has been.
UMmm... why would you think the fact a short existed would mean no more should be made? I just brought it up as I doubt many people are aware of it. Also I wonder if the new show will use the same art style.
