The Castlevania Studio Almost Made a Marvel Anthology Cartoon

There’ve been plenty of Marvel cartoons over the a long time, and there’ll proceed to be extra as its characters spin off into larger properties. However, we don’t at all times hear concerning the Marvel cartoons that don’t occur, of which there’s most likely many. But Brad Graeber, CEO of Castlevania creators Powerhouse Animation, has determined to tug again the curtain on a Marvel present the studio beforehand tried to make.

To coincide with Marvel’s then-Seventy fifth anniversary again in 2014, Graeber pitched “Marvel Era,” a shortform anthology collection that might’ve had a special brief impressed by varied Marvel eras. In a Twitter thread, Graeber defined how every episode or brief would’ve include its personal animation fashion to associate with the precise decade—Captain America’s would’ve been within the fashion of Fleischer cartoons from the 40s, Power Man and Iron Fist would draw on 70s cinema, you get the concept. The most attention-grabbing of those might be the 60s X-Men, made partially by Castevania director Sam Deats.

With the work the studio was doing on the time for varied animated Disney initiatives, Graeber was requested by Disney executives to pitch some ideas, and Era was one that everybody within the studio shortly rallied behind. Keep in thoughts, this was all at a time when Powerhouse wasn’t the…nicely, powerhouse that’s in the present day due to initiatives like Castlevania or Seis Manos. Passionate because the studio was, Graeber brazenly admits that the studio didn’t have the cash or time wanted to totally spec out the challenge, although what he’s obtained within the thread itself is extremely spectacular. He even determined to set the animation to the 90s X-Men theme, which is a fairly enjoyable coincidence.

The different factor that did Marvel Era in was, unsurprisingly, Marvel itself. At the time, the MCU was nonetheless only a small assortment of films and Disney’s acquisition of the writer had every part splintered off. As Graeber explains it himself, “studio politics were complicated, and we were green.”

Sure, Powerhouse finally obtained their arms on Castlevania and the remainder is historical past, however don’t you sort of want we obtained this too?

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