'Cuphead,' inspired by the cartoons of the 1930s, will soon be a TV show.
The video game “Cuphead” wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for vintage cartoons, namely the wacky, even sadistic works of the 1930s. With its escape-from-Satan setup,of Walt Disney Pictures’ “Silly Symphonies” and the surreal, rough-around-the-edges work of Fleischer Studios.
While a premiere date has not been set, Dave Wasson, a veteran of the recent “Mickey Mouse” shorts, and Cosmo Segurson, a principal on Netflix’s upcoming “Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling,” will serve as executive producers. The original “Cuphead,” which also boasts a big band jazz soundtrack, was envisioned in part as a love letter to the earliest days of hand-drawn animation, where a fluid, so-called “rubber-hose style” lent a constant feeling of motion to the works. Chad Moldenhauer, who with his brother, Jared, started the small Canadian firm Studio MDHR that developed the game, strove for that same sense of activity.
The TV show, said Chad, may refer to certain events and characters from the game, but the goal isn’t to re-create the latter’s story of two siblings working to pay off a devilish debt. “They exist in the same world, but we don’t want to have any time-line mash-ups,” Chad said. “We want the cartoon to stand on its own and the game to stand on its own.”
While King had been licensing “Cuphead” merchandise, it was King’s recently appointed president C.J. Kettler, also an executive producer of Netflix’s well-received game-inspired show “Carmen Sandiego,” who spearheaded the creation of “Cuphead.”
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