When Netflix introduced that it was engaged on an unique animated Ultraman film final 12 months, it did so with a daring, evocative teaser picture that left us questioning if it was simply superior idea work—or an precise indicator of simply how shut the movie would come to trying like that. Turns out the reply is, delightfully, “very very close.”

Today Netflix dropped a brand new teaser picture from the still-untitled film, directed by Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima. And whereas the streamer describes the extremely slick shot—presenting Ultraman, arms crossed, blasting his specium beam assault in a red-soaked metropolis road—as being a “bold new look drawn from the manga, anime, and of course, the original series,” that’s… not actually all that correct.

Yes, the design of Ultraman himself could be very classically just like the fits of the tokustatsu present, however this doesn’t look evocative of both Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi’s manga riff on the franchise nor its CG anime adaptation, which can also be presently streaming on Netflix. If something, it seems like Ultraman by the way in which of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a daring, shiny, wildly fashionable riff on a traditional superhero icon. And hey, what? More superheroes ought to have their very own Into the Spider-Verse, actually. Glad Ultraman’s getting with this system.

We’ll deliver you extra on Netflix’s plans for Ultraman as and once we be taught them.

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