With the release of its fourth season, the acclaimed Netflix original animated series Castlevania has come to an end as Trevor Belmont and his friends battle the forces of evil for the fate of humanity. But while Trevor's adventures may have concluded, Castlevania's executive producer reveals fans will love the next animated spinoff project.
Coupled with the announcement that Castlevania Season 4 would be it's last, there were reports that Netflix was planning for the franchise to continue with a new Castlevania animated series. According to series executive producer Kevin Kolde, the planned follow-up to the original Castlevania series will be set in the same universe.
"We're not talking about what I would specifically call a spinoff because we're taking from the characters or spinning directly from this series. We're looking at another series in the Castlevania universe. I can't tell you any real specifics at this point; we can certainly talk about it once those details are solidified, right now, it's really about finishing this [series] up," Kolde told CBR. "As you know, there's a lot of great games, great storylines, great characters in the Castlevania world going back, prior to Trevor's story, and going on into the future with Soma Cruz and things like that. There's plenty there to play with -- I'm not going to tell you where we're going to play -- but those details will come out soon enough. [Laughs] I think Castlevania fans will be thrilled."
Based on the Konami video game series of the same name, Castlevania follows generations of the Belmont family as they battle Dracula across centuries to prevent the world from plunging into eternal darkness. The four-season animated series loosely adapts 1989's Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and 2005's Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. Without specifying, this leaves plenty of material for a planned animated follow-up to explore across the video game series' 35 years of titles as a new generation of monster hunters step up to rid the world of evil.
Castlevania stars Richard Armitage as Trevor Belmont, Alejandra Reynoso as Sypha Belnades, James Callis as Alucard, Theo James as Hector, Adetokumboh M'Cormack as Isaac, Jaime Murray as Carmilla, Jessica Brown Findlay as Lenore, Bill Nighy as St. Germain, Jason Isaacs as The Judge and Rila Fukushima as Sumi. The entire series is available now on Netflix.