Let the demon looking start. Netflix is giving Devil May Cry the anime therapy — and we lastly have a style of what it has in retailer with a model new trailer the streamer simply dropped. But what could be much more thrilling is that the legendary late voice actor Kevin Conroy will posthumously star within the new recreation adaptation.
Conroy, who’s finest identified and celebrated because the longtime voice of Bruce Wayne and Batman within the many animated movies and TV reveals which have centered on the character over time, stars within the collection as VP Baines, a brand new character that may be heard in voiceover at first of the sneak peek.
Back in July 2024, Conroy was praised for his posthumous voice efficiency in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part 3, so it’s superior that followers can have one other likelihood to expertise his artistry after his premature passing in November 2022 on the age of 66. Rounding out the solid alongside the late actor is Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary, Hoon Lee as White Rabbit, Chris Coppola as Enzo, and Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante himself.
According to the official synopsis supplied by Netflix, “Sinister forces are at play to open the portal between the human and demon realms. In the center of all of it is Dante, an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire, unaware that the destiny of each worlds hangs round his neck.”
Producer Adi Shankar will function showrunner for the collection. He is understood for his work as government producer on the 2012 Judge Dredd reboot movie Dredd, in addition to the Brad Pitt star automobile Killing Them Softly from the identical yr, and 2014’s Ryan Reynolds automobile The Voices. He can also be slated to government produce an adaptation of Assassin’s Creed, however contemplating it was introduced in 2017 and nonetheless has but to see the sunshine of day, who is aware of if that collection will ever truly get made? Fingers crossed, although.
Studio Mir, a well-established South Korean studio identified for his or her work on widespread initiatives like The Legend of Korra and X-Men ‘97, will function the chief manufacturing studio on this new collection. Devil May Cry can be launched on Netflix on April 3, 2025.
Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can observe her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
