Highlights
- Director Jeremy Stieglitz discusses adapting Ark recreation into TV collection in unique interview with GameRant.
- Ark: The Animated Sequence boasts a star-studded forged and a singular narrative method totally different from the sport.
Throughout a latest interview with our sister website GameRant, Ark: The Animated Sequence director Jeremy Stieglitz mentioned the method of adapting Studio Wildcard’s well-liked survival recreation into a success tv collection.
In addition to being a co-showrunner for The Animated Sequence, Stieglitz was additionally the director for Ark: Survival Advanced and its accompanying enlargement packs, Ark: Genesis Half 1 and Half 2. After discovering big success with the Ark franchise, Stieglitz joined forces with Paramount to launch Ark: The Animated Sequence, which launched its first six episodes on Paramount+ earlier this 12 months.

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Whereas The Animated Sequence debuted to blended evaluations again in March, it does characteristic a star-studded line-up of voice actors. Russell Crowe, Gerard Butler, David Tennant, Elliot Web page, and Michelle Yeoh are simply among the critically acclaimed actors who lend their voices to the collection’ forged of characters.
With six episodes already out within the wild, and extra to come back at a at present unconfirmed date, director Jeremy Stieglitz has been discussing the creation course of with GameRant.
Ark: The Animated Sequence Director Talks Variations Between The Present And Recreation
When requested about the important thing variations between The Animated Sequence and Survival Advanced, such because the elevated function of Helena Walker (the primary protagonist of The Animated Sequence), Stieglitz stated the staff checked out it as a possibility to create one thing extra emotionally partaking.
“We requested ourselves: What benefits do we’ve got within the narrative medium versus the interactive? Some video games are extra closely narrative primarily based. Ark: Survival Advanced’s narrative is nearer to context for why you are there taming dinosaurs and so on. This was a possibility to create one thing emotionally partaking in a means that we could not with the sport.”
Stieglitz additionally dived into the explanation as to why the collection was not a “literal 1:1 of the Explorer Notes plot.” For individuals who could be unaware, Explorer Notes are collectable objects in Ark: Survival Advanced. Whereas they do not do a lot in-game apart from granting a short XP increase, they do supply background info on the Arks, left behind by survivors.
With a plethora of notes accessible to gather, every provides additional context and data to the sport’s lore. Whereas many followers anticipated this to be the premise of The Animated Sequence, Stieglitz stated that would not enable for any surprises.
“Whereas by and enormous it has been very constructive, some had been dissatisfied that it’s not a literal 1:1 of the Explorer Notes plot. We explicitly determined early on we had been going to do an adaptation quite than a transliteration. For followers who might not have been anticipating that, seeing issues modified might be off-putting, particularly in the event that they’re very acquainted with these particulars. However I feel it permits for surprises, as a result of they then don’t essentially know precisely how all the pieces’s going to play out within the present.”
If you wish to learn the complete interview with Ark: The Animated Sequence’ director, head on over to GameRant.

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