Netflix adapts the next book by the Ugly creator – the teaser turns World War I into a sci-fi adventure

While Ugly is still ranking in Netflix’s film charts, the streamer is already announcing the next project based on the author

Scott Westerfeld. This is his futuristic and adventurous steampunk version of the First World War from Leviathan, complete with Pickelhaube, Panzer-Mechs and Sci-Fi Monsters.

The alternate history is adapted from the novels Leviathan, Behemoth and Goliath. But not in live action with flesh and blood people, but in anime form.

News from the Ugly author: The anime series Leviathan is coming to Netflix in 2025

Leviathan is about Prince Aleksandar, the fictional Son of Archduke Franz Ferdinandwhose murder is known to have triggered the First World War. In 1914, right before the war began, he was on the run with a so-called Stormwalker, as the new steampunk war machines were called. Caught between several parties, he fled from his own people in the Teutonic mech.

In the Alps, Aleks finally comes into contact with the British airship Leviathan – an innovative Mixture of animal and machine. The crew is on a secret mission to the Ottoman Empire and has the aviator Deryn on board, who disguises herself as a boy and from now on works together with Aleksandar.

The CGI-supported animation for the Leviathan series comes from the anime studio Orange (The Land of Jewels). Christophe Ferreira is the director, and the film is produced by Quibic Pictures, which is based in New York and Tokyo.

Here is the Leviathan teaser from Netflix:

When is the Leviathan series coming to Netflix?

The Leviathan anime does not have a specific start date yet, the teaser only tells us that it 2025 There are no details yet regarding the casting of German voice actors.