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‘Devil May Cry’ Showrunner Adi Shankar On Crafting A “New Continuity” While Keeping The “Emotional Core” Of The Capcom Series
‘Devil May Cry’ showrunner Adi Shankar on crafting a new continuity while keeping the emotional core of the Capcom video game series.
Netflix’s Devil May Cry follows Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch), a young demon hunter who turns out to be the world’s best hope for salvation when a mysterious villain threatens to open the gates of Hell. I wanted my show to feel like Devil May Cry, to take the spirit of DMC, but I thought of it as like Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, or even X-Men the animated series, like reinterpretations that preserve the emotional core while restructuring the mythology to suit a new medium. So, it was balancing this larger love letter to Capcom with this visceral, over-the-top, stylish action that is the Devil May Cry brand at the end of the day, and then taking some more elements as well.
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