09 July, 2017
On Friday, the same day as the first season of Castlevania debuted on Netflix, the streaming service renewed the show for a longer, eight-episode Season 2 slated to premiere in 2018.
Have you watched the Netflix Castlevania series yet?
David Cox, the producer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, expresses one of the truest things said about the creative process, or really any creative work. Unlimited Media company, written by best-selling author and comic book icon Warren Ellis and executive produced by Warren Ellis, Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert and Adi Shankar. "So the chapter definitely hasn't fully closed on this story".
There is now no information on when the second season will debut.
The move shows just how much faith Netflix have in the Castlevania project, as such decisions are usually saved until enough time has passed to properly measure the fan response and viewing numbers for the debut season.
Understandably of course, many fans of the Castlevania games will approach this series with a sense of trepidation.
Season 1 of Castlevania is described as: A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself. "This is going to be the best fucking video game adaptation we've had to date".
