Adi Shankar, American film producer (The Grey, Dredd), film director, YouTube personality, and occasional actor, announced a couple of hours ago through his Facebook account:

Breaking News: I’m producing a super violent Castlevania mini-series with my homies Fred Seibert and Kevin Klonde. It’s going to be dark, satirical, and after a decade of propaganda it will flip the vampire sub-genre on its head.

https://www.facebook.com/theadishankarbrand/posts/1662553890644905

Shankar, the man behind such works as Dredd, The Punisher: Dirty Laundry, Venom: Truth in Journalism, Judge Dredd: Superfiend, and a brutally reimagined Power Rangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5vcUPyL90

Is teaming up with Frederator Films for the upcoming animated series.

Steve Weintraub reached out to him and made him the following questions about the project:

Question: How did the project come about?            

Adi Shankar: In a meeting with Kevin Kolde … he’s a really awesome dude.  Frederator and Kevin acquired the rights a few years ago.

What are you basing the story on?            

Shankar: Castlevania III.

What kind of violence/gore can you show?    

Shankar: There will be a lot.  The goal is to bring hard hitting anime to the America and be America’s first animated series for adults.    

What animated stuff would you say influences the look and feel of your series?    

Shankar: Akira, Ghost in a Shell, Ninja Scroll, Young Justice aka the best series ever and it shouldn’t have been canceled wtf.

Are you planting easter eggs that only the gamers will know?    

Shankar: Yes.  Always yes.    

Are you already thinking about music? Will it have a score or songs or both?    

Shankar: The first thing I thought about was music and how we needed to avoid the traditional sword-and-sandal orchestra cliche and use the heavy metal electro guitar vibe found in the early games.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3358541/castlevania-iii-receive-super-violent-animated-series/

Excited?

About time.

The original games were a campy monster mash full of 20th century horror movie tropes (I suppose you could argue it was a celebration of the genre itself) , trying to turn it into an edgy satire seems a bit backwards.

Have to admit, those fan shorts were pretty impressive. May well be the best adaptations of the punisher and venom I've ever seen. The dredd cartoon was dogshit though.

I'm glad they are going to use the original style music.

Yup. Going out on a limb here, but I believe Konami doesn't understand what it has on its hands now.

I could live without the super violent stuff. I could also do without the animated series. In fact I'd rather see them doing nothing!

Difficult to say on what Konami is thinking now a days, however it wouldn't suprise me that they would not only sanction this but also request Erotic Violence.