4 Years Later,BrightLives… as an Anime?

It ’s been four eld of peace since Netflix cursed the universe with theDavid Ayer / Max Landis orc cop incubus Bright . The streamerhas threatened since , in fits and commencement , to bring us more , but in maliciousness of the pic ’s success on the program , it ’s been a while since we ’ve discover anything about a continuation of its story … until now .

Netflix confirmed that the next addition to what it distressingly describes as an “ expanding ” Bright universe is not a sequel to the film , but Bright : Samurai Soul . The movie is described as an animize prequel set 100 of twelvemonth sooner in the blended humanity of human company co - exist with fantastical civilizations like orcs and elves . Specifically taking station in a post - feudal Japan , Samurai Soul follows a sellsword named Izou ( Shang - Chi ’s Simu Liu ) , who finds himself crossing paths with an orc named Raiden ( Fred Mancuso ) , as they both encounter a young elf with access to a powerful sorcerous wand . When the lady friend , Sonya ( Yuzu Harada ) , recognize a mysterious organization is after her , wishing to steal the wand to secure Japan ’s hereafter as the Meiji period of early Imperial Japan begin afoot , Izou and Raiden are forced to put aside prejudice to shape together and safeguard Sonya ’s quest to get the wand home to the Elven settlements in the country ’s northern regions .

Neither Ayer nor Landis is tie to the labor , the latter of whom was already rumour to not be returning in light of severalallegations of sexual harassment and ravishment . Instead , the movie is the study of brio studio apartment ARECT , manoeuvre by Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop and Your Lie in April ’s Kyohei Ishiguro , and written by Michiko Yokote . Their many credit include writing on Cowboy Bebop and a plethora of other gum anime , as well as several Super Sentai series , leading the writing teams on Juken Sentai Gekiranger and Tensou Sentai Goseiger .

It’s Bright, but definitely not as you know it.

It’s Bright, but definitely not as you know it.Screenshot:Netflix

All jokes aboutBright ’s questionable quality apart — and whether or not the great unwashed are really bang-up to see it become a enfranchisement four years down the business line — it ’s interesting that Samurai Soul is , ultimately , so far removed from what Bright was ( and really , the aspects of the motion picture that did n’t work ) , that it feels like it could almost just drop the brand entirely and be its own pseudo - historical fantasy creation . We ’ll see if the Bright association helps or stymy when Samurai Soul beginsstreaming on Netflixon October 12 .

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