What if Pong was performed in a massacre? If Tim Miller and Dave Wilson, producers of Amazon Prime Video’s grownup animation sequence Secret Stage, have their means, we’ll see one thing of that kind throughout our TV screens within the close to future. Talking with ScreenRant, the pair mentioned the video video games they’d like to put a disturbing twist on in a second season of Secret Stage.
No formal renewal of Secret Stage has been introduced, however that hasn’t stopped Miller and Wilson from interested by which different video games and characters they could wish to deal with. When discussing a doable second season, Miller admits there are too many video video games to select from, earlier than Wilson mentions arguably probably the most influential online game of all time. “The one I do know I wish to do is that if we will determine a means, the kind of granddaddy of all video video games, I must discover a technique to make a Pong episode.”
Earlier than any of us might conjure up the entire doable twisted angles you’ll be able to take with a 2D desk tennis-themed sport, Miller goes straight for blood, suggesting a Pong episode “might be equally disturbing as Pac-Man.” Simply to refresh your reminiscence, the Pac-Man-inspired episode from the primary season concerned a floating golden orb coaching a swordsman who emerged from a tank to flee a maze, earlier than violently taking on his physique for its personal mysterious intention. Does that imply the Pong paddles will probably be managed by people able to lob bombs as a substitute of an innocuous white dot back-and-forth in a sport of survival? Perhaps not, however Pac-Man lined in blood after consuming its means into somebody’s physique doesn’t make that suggestion an impossibility.
Miller additionally calls Fortnite the “Moby Dick of video video games,” maybe as a result of the huge assortment of IPs now current in it could make buying the rights a extremely enticing but in addition very elusive and difficult prospect, or as a result of, in his thoughts, the sport’s reputation and cultural ubiquity make working with the property an apparent purpose for anybody concerned in telling tales rooted in video games proper now. Both means, a second season of Secret Stage shouldn’t be promised, particularly given how the primary has been acquired by reviewers. If Amazon did determine to drop extra money into an anthology sequence by which robots insurgent in opposition to people in Unreal Event and Patrick Schwarzenegger’s New World: Aeternum character dies sufficient instances to bore his assassin, then put together to see Pong dripping in blood.
