Capcom's Dino Crisis Almost Became an Anime

Capcom's Dino Crisis Almost Became an Anime

Brief:

Capcom’s Dino Crisis series almost got a revival as an anime for Netflix, thanks to Adi Shankar. However, the plan shifted, and Shankar's attention turned to another Capcom franchise, Devil May Cry.

  1. The Dino Crisis Revival That Could Have Been
  2. Capcom's Decision and Shankar's Passion
  3. What's Next for Dino Crisis?

The Dino Crisis Revival That Could Have Been

Next spring, Netflix is releasing an anime based on Capcom’s famous Devil May Cry series. The show is headed up by Adi Shankar, who also helped get Castlevania and Captain Laserhawk off the ground—and according to him, he initially had his eyes set on adapting a different Capcom IP for the streamer.

On Twitter, Shankar recently revealed that he’d initially approached Capcom in 2017 about the possibility of making a Dino Crisis series. Instead, the studio countered with Devil May Cry, which he “didn’t even think would be on the table,” and the rest is history.

Capcom's Decision and Shankar's Passion

If you haven’t played Dino Crisis, players take on the role of special operatives who fight dinosaurs brought to the present through time travel. The series was short-lived, with just three main games and a light gun spinoff, but it has a passionate fanbase. You can definitely count Shankar among them: he praised the first two games and considered it his mission to revive the series after 2003’s Dino Crisis 3 “took the franchise off Earth, but left behind the suspense.”

Capcom has never seemed interested in continuing Dino Crisis, not even with a remaster or by putting the games on Steam. (Surprisingly, the soundtracks for the first two games are on there.) It’s been a frustrating experience for fans, especially after early trailers for last year’s multiplayer game Exoprimal—which has players fight dinosaurs in high-tech mech suits—sparked interest that it was a secret revival, before Capcom shut those hopes down.

What's Next for Dino Crisis?

If that weren’t bad enough, creator Shinji Mikami believes the series ran its course, suggesting that the Monster Hunter games satisfy players’ needs to kill dinosaurs and other beasts.

While Capcom has left the franchise in the dust, Shankar still hopes to bring Dino Crisis to the screen one day. For now, though, he’s fully focused on Devil May Cry, which hits Netflix next April.  

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