survival, dinosaurs and a super cast worthy of Hollywood

If you’re really into ARK: Survival Evolved, the first big trailer for the long-promised animated series You’re going to love it. As it is. And if you haven’t played the Studio Wildcard game yet or you’re directly going to wait for the sequel to arrive, what’s shown for small screens already has enough ingredients for you to start following the track very closely.

The project known as ARK: The Animated Series has shown a trailer of more than four minutes focused on the first season. In it, a very complete review is made of the plot, the theme, the animation style and the cast of voices in English that will participate in the series. And it’s serious: Vin Diesel, Gerard Butler, Monica Bellucci, David Tennant, Michelle Yeoh, Karl Urban

… Put like that, it almost seems like one of those big Marvel events.

From this point it is time to talk about the essentials: what is the series about? Events center on Helena Walker (played by Madeleine Madden, from Wheel of Time) a 21st century Australian paleontologist who has just awakened on the ARK. And from what we’ve seen, she’ll need to take an advanced course if she doesn’t want to be eaten by the dinosaurs on the loose.

With the help of other survivors from different periods of history such as Bob (Karl Urban) y Meiyin Li

(Michelle Yeoh), Helena will begin to adapt to that wild environment, although in that territory not all threats come from extinct species: the 19th century scientist Sir Edmund Rockwell (David Tennant) is up to something, and we can tell it’s up to no good.

As an additional detail, the series will participate Vin Diesel like Santiago, a pilot and handyman who comes from the 24th century who will also be the protagonist or one of the relevant figures of the future ARK 2 and that in this animated project, he also acts as Executive Producer. Studio Wildcard does not stitch without thread.

In addition to a spectacular cast, ARK: The Animated Series It has the participation of Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, creators of the video game, and its script is in the hands of Marguerite Bennett and Kendall Deacon Davis. And no less interesting is that Gareth Coker (Ori and the Blind Forest, Halo Infinite and the video game itself ARK: Survival Evolved) will orchestrate the entire soundtrack for the series.

All the pieces are very well aligned for the series to be a huge success, although two key elements remain to be specified: when and where. We know that ARK: The Animated Series it will be released sometime in 2023, on a platform yet to be announced. Netflix, HBO Max, Disney, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube…? Although what has been shown has been a very generous advance in all aspects, some surprises have been saved for the future. Can’t blame them for it.