Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix will officially be released on Netflix on October 19, 2023. Furthermore, Netflix has revealed many of the cast members that will help bring this series to life.
This new series that is inspired by Far Cry 3's beloved Blood Dragon DLC was announced back in 2021 and comes from Netflix's Castlevania showrunner Adi Shankar. While we've already received a teaser for the series, Netflix has finally released a full trailer that gives us our best look yet at this new story.
Free the citizens of Eden with lasers, video games, and a frog assassin. From Ubisoft and Adi Shankar, Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix invades Netflix on October 19th. #NetflixDrop01 pic.twitter.com/VSKxllDaO3
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) September 27, 2023
As for the new cast members, they include Caroline Ford as The Warden, David Menkin as Rayman, Courtney Mae-Briggs as Jade, Glenn Wrage as Pay’J, and Daniel York Loh as Pagan Min. You'll definitely recognize some of those names, including Rayman from the video game series of the same name, Beyond Good and Evil's Jade and Pay'J (it was spelled Pey'J in the game), and Far Cry 4 villain Pagan Min.
As for what Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix is about, Netflix previously released its official synopsis and you can check out below;
"The year is 1992. The country formerly known as the USA is now called Eden, a technocracy ruled by propaganda and corruption," the official description reads. "Super-soldier Dolph Laserhawk has just been betrayed by the love of his life, his boyfriend Alex Taylor, and locked up in Eden’s off-the-grid maximum security prison, Supermaxx.
"Dolph is forced to lead a team of rebel outcasts on risky undercover missions under the order of the prison's shadowy Warden. CAPTAIN LASERHAWK: A BLOOD DRAGON REMIX is an original animated series mixing alternative Ubisoft characters from beloved franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Rayman, and Far Cry in a highly referenced homage to the early 90s."
Far Cry 3's Blood Dragon DLC was released back in 2013 and, in our review, we said its "playful focus on humor, nostalgia, and self-aware absurdity allows it to delve into a subject far more important than African arms races or tropical sociopaths: Video games are really, really fun."
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