The John Wick franchise reworked Chad Stahelski’s public picture from being Keanu Reeves’ former stunt-double to one of the crucial influential motion administrators of the twenty first Century. Following the discharge of John Wick in 2014, followers had one query on their collective minds: What’s subsequent? For over a decade, the reply was much more John Wick. However, Stahelski selected 2025 because the yr to department out, and his new venture is an surprising, however very welcome, new motion sequence. Stahelski lent his motion abilities to Lazarus, the brand new anime from Cowboy Bebop‘s creator, Shinichiro Watanabe, and motion followers can’t get sufficient of the brand new present.
Lazarus is streaming on Max, and viewers are obsessive about the brand new sci-fi/motion anime. The sequence is at present the fourth hottest present on the streaming service. Watanabe wrote and directed Lazarus, and the sequence looks like a non secular successor to his magnum opus, Cowboy Bebop. So, the place does Chad Stahelski match into all of this? The John Wick veteran designed all of the motion for the sequence. Stahelski is credited as being the present’s motion supervisor, however he did way over simply supervise. Stahelski designed the present’s many motion scenes, and even recorded all of the motion in live-action for the animators at MAPPA to make use of as visible references — we have to see that live-action footage!
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Lazarus is about within the close to future, the place the mysterious Dr. Skinner has created a miracle painkiller, Hapna, that cures nearly any ailment. When Skinner disappears for 3 years after releasing the drug, he instantly returns and tells the world that the drug will quickly mutate, killing everybody who has taken it. The world has simply 30 days to search out Skinner to get the treatment for Hapna earlier than it is too late. The sequence follows a ragtag group of criminals, beneath the codename Lazarus, who’re blackmailed by a personal financier to seek out Skinner earlier than anybody else.
Chad Stahelski Labored on ‘Lazarus’ for Free
Shinichiro Watanabe is to anime what Chad Stahelski is to motion films. By means of his reveals like Bebop, Samurai Champloo, House Dandy, and so many extra, Watanabe has turn into one of the crucial influential anime administrators of all time, and is held in the identical regard as Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai. It should not come as a shock that Watanabe’s action-heavy works had been an enormous affect on Chad Stahelski. So, when the John Wick creator was given the possibility to collaborate with Watanabe on Lazarus, he jumped on the probability.
“We had been a bit involved about how a lot this venture was going to price us,” Watanabe informed Anime Information Community. “I needed to apologize and inform him upfront that we’ve by no means labored with Hollywood-level budgets. Chad mentioned within the name, ‘Don’t fear about the price. Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo have impressed me for years. Let me do that for you.'” Six episodes of Lazarus are at present obtainable to stream on Max. New episodes are launched weekly. It hasn’t been confirmed if the present will run for 12 episodes or a full 24-episode season, as Watanabe’s previous works have assorted in size.
Supply: Anime Information Community
Lazarus
- Launch Date
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April 5, 2025
- Administrators
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Shinichirô Watanabe
- Writers
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Shinichirô Watanabe
