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Netflix orders Gypsy, and kid shows - Voltron & Trollhunters (Guillermo del Toro)

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GK86

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Netflix has added a physiological thriller to its original slate, ordering a 10-episode season of one-hour series “Gypsy” from Universal Television, Working Title and writer Lisa Rubin, the streaming service announced on Tuesday. It’s set to debut in 2017.

The show will follow Jean Holloway, a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationship with the people in her patients’ lives.

Rubin, Liza Chasin, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will exec produce, with Rubin also serving as writer. Rubin is also adapting novels “I Was Here” for New Line and “Food Whore” for DreamWorks.
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If you’re a parent with a Netflix subscription, chances are strong that you’re already intimately familiar with DreamWorks Animation‘s contributions to the streaming giant. If you have no spawn of your own, track down and ask the youngest person in your life capable of enjoying animated entertainment and receive an earful. While you were binge-watching Making a Murderer and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, these kids were taking in hours of The Adventures of Puss in Boots, All Hail King Julien, and other shows based on the studio’s lucrative film properties.

Speaking of lucrative, Netflix and DreamWorks Animation have decided to continue putting money in each other’s pockets. The two companies have extended their distribution deal, giving Netflix global (excluding China) rights to several upcoming new shows. The original 2013 deal was the biggest in Netflix’s history, so obviously things went exactly as planned.

So what’s next for DreamWorks’ continuing streaming venture? How about a new Voltron series and a new show created by Guillermo del Toro?

For many of you ’80s kids, the mere mention of Voltron is going to make you venture into the kid-friendly corner of Netflix to indulge your nostalgic whims. Perhaps best remembered as a direct competitor for Transformers, the original cartoon series (and its toy line, of course) followed the gigantic robot Voltron and the space adventurers who piloted him throughout space, battling evil and defending the Earth from the forces of evil. Hollywood has been threatening to make a live-action Voltron movie for some time now, but rights issues have kept any potential film adaptation on the back burner for years. That’s probably for the best. Voltron belongs to the kids, not adults who’ll want to see this goofy premise grim-n-gritty’d up.

However, the slightly more intriguing news here is that DreamWorks is is backing a project from Guillermo del Toro, the legit genius behind Pan’s Labyrinth, the Hellboy movies, and last year’s massively underrated Crimson Peak. This new show is called Trollhunters and it takes place in “a new, fantastical world wrapped around two best friends who make a startling discovery beneath their hometown.” Considering the title, this startling discovery will presumably involve trolls. And later, trollhunting.

This series appears to have no connection to Trollhunter, the Norwegian faux doc horror movie about a group of film students following a government employed hunter tasked with keeping the secret troll population under control. An American remake has been in development hell for a long time now (Chris Columbus was involved at one point) and the fact that this new series is getting away with using that title suggests that a English-language version may be dead.

And because we know nothing about del Toro’s series, here’s a clip from Trollhunter. Trollhunter is awesome.

No release date for Volton and Trollhunters has been revealed, but both are expected to debut in 2016.
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Dan

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Trollhunters was picked up by Dreamworks Animation back in 2010 or so as a feature film based on a young adult book del Toro co-authored that was just finally released last year. He was going to write and direct. This all stems from when he signed on to consult on their films 5+ years ago.

I love how so few outlets reporting this today can be bothered to even search their own databases for reports on this stuff.
 
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Koriandrr

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I actually shed a tear of joy at the Voltron news. Yay nostalgia.


I'm curious to see Trollhunters. I would've never imagined GDT doing a children's show. I'm hoping it's like Adventure Time.
 
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neorej

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My little girl will adore Trollhunters. She's crazy about shit normal 4yr olds would piss their pants over :D
 
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- Variety: First Look at Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Trollhunters’ Series.
reamWorks and Netflix have unveiled the first image of Guillermo Del Toro’s animated series Trollhunters. The new show promises to “unleash a new, fantastical world wrapped around the residents of the fictional suburb of Arcadia who make a startling discovery that the world beneath their hometown is as vast and mind-blowing as anything on the surface.”

The new series is based on Daniel Kraus and Del Toro’s novel of the same name, which means fans will get to enjoy epic battles between underground creatures and young warriors. The show will be released later this year on Netflix.
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Finaj

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I hope things start to look brighter for Dreamworks. Besides KFP3, all their other films over the past 2 years have underperformed.
 
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