With Primordial Season three is just two months away, and fans are preparing for an exciting new chapter Genndy Tartakovskyis a brutal, dialogue-free animated epic. But next season won’t just be another round of prehistoric mayhem, it’ll take a wild turn into zombie territory.
When Primordial The second season ended with the tragic death of Spear, Tartakovsky had teased that the next season would reinvent the series as an anthology, focusing on new characters and settings while keeping the show’s visceral animation and raw, emotional storytelling intact.
Season 2 episode 5, “The Primal Theory,” also served as a prototype for this direction, swapping dinosaurs for the madness of the Victorian era as an inmate escaping from asylum clashes with a group of scientists in 1890s England.
But as development on season three progressed, Tartakovsky found himself drawn to the characters who started it all. In a recent interview with Collider, he explained why the anthology idea didn’t catch on.
“At the end of season two, I talked about it Primordial becoming an anthology. So there will be different characters, different everything, just following the central idea of Primal, which doesn’t have a lot of dialogue. It’s visual storytelling. It’s visceral. It’s raw.
“After developing for a while, I realized that I missed Spear, and I spent 20 episodes for the audience to love him and really appreciate the relationship between him and Fang. And then the idea came that I could do more, and Spear became a zombie.”
Tartakovsky brings the prehistoric warrior into undead territory, though he insists this isn’t your typical zombie story.
“I feel like there’s a lot of new stuff and a lot of established stuff about zombies. I’m not a horror guy, right? I don’t really watch horror movies. I don’t like to be scared, so it was fun for me to do Primal as a series anyway, because there’s a lot of, I call it more of a thriller-type feel, right?”
“It’s more of a thriller, dramatic and exciting show than just scary. So, this pretty much follows the same rule. There are zombie movies that I like, you know, World War ZI like The last of usall that stuff, but I think we’ve made our own rules, without at the same time breaking all the laws we associate with zombies.
It’s an unexpected direction for Primordialbut it’s awesome and I love the concept! The idea of blending the show’s prehistoric ferocity with a new supernatural twist has fans excited to see how Spear and Fang’s story continues beyond death.
Primordial The third season promises to be something completely new, while maintaining the same raw spirit that made the series unforgettable.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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