Arcane, the League of Legends spinoff series on Netflix, has made history by becoming the first video game adaptation to win big at the Emmy Awards.
During the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony on Saturday, Arcane won Outstanding Animated Program. Beating out other popular programs like Rick and Morty, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, and Marvel’s What If…?
According to Deadline, series co-creator Christian Linke was overjoyed with the outcome.
“Thank you [for] this. It’s a big deal for us as we come from video games,” Linke said. “It’s been amazing to see the world embrace our characters and our stories, so thanks to Netflix, who believed in us from the beginning, thanks to Riot Games, who worked on the whole IP, and to all the people that have been with our game and League of Legends for the last 12 years or so who helped make it as big as it is now.”
Honored doesn’t even begin to describe how we feel about winning the #Emmy for 𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎.
Thank you to our incredible team at @RiotGames and Fortiche, the @TelevisionAcad, and the greatest fans (yes, you) for making this possible. pic.twitter.com/xFNWt4eNc7
— Arcane (@arcaneshow) September 4, 2022
Many already think of Arcane as the best games-to-film adaptation ever. A second season is already in the works, and Riot Games invested heavily in animation studio Fortiche Productions. We have come a long way since BloodRayne and Double Dragon, huh?
The show is also a clear front-runner for that ‘best adaptation’ category at The Game Awards this fall.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
