Animated adventures of your favorite Sci-Fi franchises are all the rage these days with new Star Wars animation, and possibly Star Trek animation coming to a television or browser near you in the very near future…but one property that I didn’t expect to see get this treatment just might…Aliens.

You can take a look at the images below and get a look at what Aliens: War Games might just look like. These are not final character designs, but it’s pretty clear that they’re going for that “Samurai Jack” stylized look with this proposed series.

This micro series would be presented in the same fashion as Clone Wars was a few years back, and there is supposedly network interest (which network, we don’t know).

Here’s a bit more detail about the concept.

From the Aint-It-Cool article:

Newbie is a rookie Colonial Marine in a future where the Alien threat is widespread and feared by all. Marine training now involves HOT “Bug Hunt” scenarios - HOT meaning this is not a simulation. Rookies are dropped into a semi-controlled environment with live ammunition and REAL aliens (though tethered with remote stun collars). Each episode of the animated series would start with a mini-episode of Newbie and his training exercises, which get more elaborate each week. The animated piece at bluefieldscreative.com represents the first training exercise, pitting Newbie, with very limited ammo, in the middle of an abandoned terraforming station that is home to one single alien. A very dangerous game of one-on-one hide-and-seek.



Of course, by the end of the first season, Newbie will be integrated into the main storyline and seeing his first taste of real action in the war against the bugs, but these mini-episodes will serve as a fun pre-credits adventure prologue to each episode.

I’m excited about seeing these franchises appear in animated form…as long as they can keep the thing adult oriented, and not a water-down Saturday Morning Cartoon version of the story. You can actually see an animated clip from this proposal right here.



What do you think? Would you watch this?