League of Legends will soon have its animated series.
Netflix announces that it will offer its subscribers, in the coming months, "Arcane", an animated series on the universe of the very popular video game from Riot Games studios.
The program adapted from the video game will be partly designed by the French studio Fortiche Productions.
LoL.
If for you this abbreviation means "lot of laugh", that is to say that you are kidding, you are certainly not a fan of video games.
Because the abbreviation also designates "League of Legends", the name of the video game of battle in real time by teams of 5 players, become since its launch in 2011 a phenomenon at the heart of global e-sport competitions.
So much so that Netflix will broadcast the adaptation of its fantastic universe of anthropomorphic creatures in an animated series.
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A project postponed by the Covid-19
This serial project is called
Arcane
.
It will be partly designed by a French animation studio, Fortiche Productions.
Netflix announces that the series will be available on the platform next fall, without further clarification on the date or the plot.
The Arcane project was announced in 2019, but was postponed by the Covid-19 health crisis.
The name of the broadcaster was not known until then.
Netflix already offers a program around this legendary video game: the documentary
League of Legends: The Origins
, where creators and fans of
League of Legends
recount the birth of the phenomenon, from the first free "demos" of the game, to major international competitions.