How “The Cuphead Show!” Brings the Golden Age of Animation to the Modern Day
variety.comWilson Chapman editorWhen the video game “Cuphead” was released in 2017, it became something of an instant classic in the animation community.
Studio MDHR’s shoot ‘em up indie platformer, in which players take control of the title character as he goes on a quest to defeat the devil, is a loving tribute to the Golden Age of animation, with graphics that mimic the rubber hose style of the earliest Mickey Mouse and Fleischer Studios shorts.
Even Dave Wasson, who doesn’t normally play video games, kept his eye on the game when it was first announced in 2013. And when he sat down to play it, he was completely blown away.“They just nailed it in a way that I don’t think anybody else really ever has in any medium since the original 1930s,” Wasson says.
Wasson is now the executive producer and showrunner for “The Cuphead Show!” a new Netflix animated series that adapts the original game.
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