While there are only three months left in 2021, Netflix has pulled out all the stops to ensure there is more than enough original programming for the remainder of the year, and into 2022. As part of the cheekily named TUDUM event, Netflix brought out the big guns for its upcoming series and original movies. From excerpted scenes to stylish opening title sequences, the extended presentation did not disappoint, with the event including a full wave of trailers and teasers.
Here are all the biggest and best teasers from Netflix's TUDUM event, with details of when fans can expect to see some of the biggest announced series and films.
The massively popular video game League of Legends gets adapted into an anime series this November, with Arcane. Boasting an all-star voice cast, the nine-episode series will be divided across three acts, released over the course of November, as it provides a deeper look at some of the cyberpunk world's fan-favorite characters.
Directed by Ash Brannon, Arcane premieres Nov. 6.
Director Zack Snyder returned to his horror roots with the Netflix zombie heist film Army of the Dead. Now, a prequel film, Army of Thieves, leans into the crime caper aspects of the story. Six years before the zombie outbreak that set the stage for Army of the Dead, expert safecracker Ludwig Dieter is approached to aid in a high-stakes heist by a team of misfit burglars looking for an epic score.
Directed by Matthias Schweighöfer, Army of Thieves premieres Oct. 29.
Cobra Kai Season 3 ended with lifelong rivals Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence setting aside their differences and combining their karate schools for an epic showdown against Cobra Kai founder John Kreese. The latest teaser trailer for Cobra Kai Season 4 highlights the clash in training styles that Daniel and Johnny bring while hinting at the return of Cobra Kai co-founder Terry Silver teaming up with Kreese once again.
Developed for television by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, Cobra Kai Season 4 premieres Dec. 31.
One of Netflix's most eagerly anticipated original anime films is Drifting Home, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Hiroyasu Ishida. It follows two childhood friends, Kosuke and Natsume, who play in a building scheduled for demolition before the structure begins mysteriously drifting out to sea. Now they must support each other to survive and find a way safely back home.
Directed by Hiroyasu Ishida, Drifting Home premieres in 2022.
After its inaugural season brought aspiring American young professional Emily Cooper to the City of Lights in the popular series Emily in Paris, the second season is set to double down on all the unique foibles and peccadilloes that come with Parisian society. A teaser trailer for Season 2 confirmed a December premiere date, as Emily ventures out of the French capital to further explore her new home country.
Created by Darren Star, Emily in Paris Season 2 premieres Dec. 22.
Last year's acclaimed action thriller Extraction ended on an ominous note, with Chris Hemsworth's soldier of fortune, Tyler Rake seemingly, meeting his untimely end, with the final scene only vaguely hinting at his survival. The teaser trailer for Extraction 2 confirms that Rake indeed lived to fight another day, with the mercenary emerging from a Bangladeshi river, severely wounded but still alive.
Directed by Sam Hargrave, Extraction 2 does not yet have a release date.
After years of being stuck in development hell as a feature film and television adaptation, Neil Gaiman's landmark comic series The Sandman finally coming to Netflix. A first-look teaser introduces The Sandman's protagonist, Dream, played by Tom Sturridge: As a nefarious cult conducts a ritual to trap the personification of Death, its members are surprised when, instead, they summon Death's sibling, Dream.
Developed for television by Allan Heinberg, with Neil Gaiman as a writer and executive producer, The Sandman does not yet have an announced release date.
The latest teaser for Stranger Things Season 4 introduces the new setting of the Creel House, a home in Hawkins, Indiana, with a particularly dark history. Opening with a look at the house in the 1950s as a picturesque young family moves in, the proceedings quickly shift to the sinister as Robert Englund's Victor Creel surfaces. And as the Hawkins gang of the 1980s breaks into the abandoned home, they discover its reputation may be well-deserved.
Created by the Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things Season 4 arrives in 2022.
While Jupiter's Legacy, the big-budget television adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's bestselling comic of the same name, may have lasted only a single season, the fictional world will continue on in the anime adaptation Super Crooks. Based on the comic book miniseries by Millar and Leinil Francis Yu, the series follows supervillain Johnny Bolt as he returns to a life of crime after being released from prison.
Directed by Motonobu Hori, Super Crooks premieres Nov. 25.
The documentary miniseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness caught the world by surprise last year, following the bizarre real-world antics of Joe Exotic, complete with murder plots and wildlife rivals. Netflix announced the miniseries would receive a follow-up this November, but kept details for the aptly titled Tiger King 2 under wraps as it teased a return of sorts for Exotic.
Tiger King 2 premieres Nov. 17.
And the main Vikings series concluded last year with the completion of its sixth season, the historical drama is moving to Netflix for the spinoff series Vikings: Valhalla. Set approximately a century after the events of the main series, the 24-episode series boasts the same creative team as its predecessor, and explores the end of the Viking Age as the Vikings are opposed in England by the Anglo-Saxons.
Created by Michael Hirst and Jeb Stuart, Vikings: Valhalla premieres in 2022.
Of all of the projects highlighted at the TUDUM presentation, The Witcher appeared to unveil the most, from two scenes straight from the upcoming second season to a new trailer to keep fans excited for the launch in December. Focusing on the dynamic between Geralt of Rivia and Princess Ciri, the trailer teases what the main characters have been up to since the epic Season 1 finale.
Developed for television by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, The Witcher Season 2 arrives Dec. 17.
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