Netflix announces CGI Ultraman movie
 

the Ultra expansion continues!

https://en.tsuburaya-prod.co.jp/news/2629

Awesome!! I already love the style and how intentionally low-key it is. Not really much else to know right now but I'm absolutely looking forward to this one :)

A Western animation Ultraman movie? Not sure how to feel about this one.

This would be funny if it ended up being the origin story of an alternate reality version of Father of Ultra. :lolol

Can't they just give us a season 2 of the anime? Although I am interested to see how this looks.

They are doing that as well

I have nothing to really add other than that I am the target demographic there. Father of Ultra is one of my favourite characters in the whole franchise, and I have a figure of him standing atop my bookshelf next to other celebrated heroes such as Ultraseven, Stronger, and, ah, Elsa.

As a non-Ultra fan, gotta say. Sounds pretty interesting. Going off the plot synopsis, I'm definitely curious

Written by Shannon Tindle and one Marc Haimes. Seems like they're fairly new blood? Searching up Shannon only gives me Kubo and the Two Strings and Lost Ollie. Haimes also worked on Kubo along with the HBO Max Titans.

So... Cautiously Optimistic?

Ooh, Kubo? That's some pretty good stuff behind them then

Huh, sounds interesting. This'll be the first Western Animated Ultraman media since Ultraman USA, which is kind off amazing. I don't want to get my hopes up, but I am interested in seeing how this turns out.

But hearing that one or more of these people previously worked on Kubo and the Two Strings, which is a great film by the way, makes me more confident they'll do a good job.

The protagonist is gonna be named Ken so Father of Ultra came in mind the moment I read the article. :lolol

I will now hold out hope for this even though it's totally unlikely lol.

I'm not seeing this as related specifically to Father of Ultra, but as something that is laden to the nines with Easter Eggs, hence the name "Ken". I would watch this and expect to see name references on billboards and building directories and documents and visually similar imagery and how many classic kaiju they use or if they're making newer kaiju specifically for this.