Earlier this month, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series full of short films based on Video games like Speleology And Mega-Man, called Secret level. Now we have a first look at the teaser trailer for the series and it looks like there will be a short film based on Armored corethe mech games from FromSoftware, the star is none other than Keanu Reeves.
Secret levelwill be released on December 10th, is produced by Tim Miller and the CGI studio Blur Studio, who are also behind the first Dead Pool Movies and Netflix Love, death and robots Science fiction anthology. The new trailer showed clips from a number of different short films in the new series, and one of them definitely looks like Reeves is about to pop his head forward in the sweaty cockpit of a robot in three seconds.
Here is the trailer:
Here’s the part that looks like Reeves:
And here FromSoftware confirms that it is a Armored core Story:
There are two reasons why this blows fans away. First, Reeves is great and in addition to his performances in timeless classics like The Matrix, John WickAnd Dangerous surfalso delivered an incredible performance as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk2077which shows that you can bring top Hollywood talent into a blockbuster video game in a way that feels elegant and earned, rather than a cheap rip-off (Idris Elba demonstrated the same in the Phantom Liberty expansion last year).
But secondly, Armored core is a popular but relatively unknown video game IP that could be leveraged for an Amazon Prime adaptation. The series is known for thrilling mech battles, brutal post-apocalyptic sci-fi scenarios, and effective but extremely tight writing and storytelling. And of course, the red robot eyes you can see in the teaser.
The pilots of these mechs are usually pumped up and stuffed with all sorts of weird body-horrifying cyber-stuff, and are tasked with keeping their existential crises at bay by blowing things up with giant cannons. Reeves seems perfect for the role.
Last year Armored Core VI: Fire of the Rubicon demonstrated each of these virtues and was excellent, but not exactly the kind of phenomenon you would expect to trigger a transmedia cameo, even a relatively small one like that in an anthology series. FromSoftware’s other games, including Dark Souls, Blood transfusedand the mega-seller Fire ring all seemed like much more likely candidates.
What Armored core Fans lack in numbers, but they make up for it with unwavering devotion. If you doubt that, consider this five-and-a-half-hour YouTube explanatory video To Armored Core VI‘s story, which has over a million views. I assume the one for Secret Level’s Armored core The entry will be shorter, but not much.
