How “The Cuphead Show!” Brings the Golden Age of Animation to the Modern Day
18.02.2022 - 19:11
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Wilson Chapman editorWhen the video game “Cuphead” was released in 2017, it became something of an instant classic in the animation community. Studio MDHR’s shoot ‘em up indie platformer, in which players take control of the title character as he goes on a quest to defeat the devil, is a loving tribute to the Golden Age of animation, with graphics that mimic the rubber hose style of the earliest Mickey Mouse and Fleischer Studios shorts.
Even Dave Wasson, who doesn’t normally play video games, kept his eye on the game when it was first announced in 2013. And when he sat down to play it, he was completely blown away.“They just nailed it in a way that I don’t think anybody else really ever has in any medium since the original 1930s,” Wasson says.
Wasson is now the executive producer and showrunner for “The Cuphead Show!” a new Netflix animated series that adapts the original game. The show is set to launch Feb.
18, with 12 episodes that run around 10 minutes each, telling the story of Cuphead (Tru Valentino) and his brother Mugman (Frank T. Todaro) as they navigate the colorful and often dangerous Inkwell Isles.The developers of the “Cuphead” game, brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, serve as executive producers on the Netflix adaptation.
According to Chad, Netflix approached them about creating a “Cuphead” series shortly after the game launched, and while they initially assumed a deal would never come to fruition, their licensing company King Features and agent C.J Kettler worked to eventually make it a reality for them. The brothers conducted extensive interviews to find a creative head for the show, but knew when they met Wasson that he and his co-executive producer Cosmo Segurson that they would be a perfect fit to
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