Earlier this month, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series full of shorts based on video games like Spelunky and Mega Man, called Secret Level. Now we’ve gotten our first look at the teaser trailer for the series, and it certainly looks like there’s a short based on Armored Core, the FromSoftware mech games, the stars none other than Keanu Reeves. Secret Level , out December 10, is being made by Tim Miller and CGI house Blur Studio, who were behind the first Deadpool movie and Amazon’s earlier Love, Death & Robots sci-fi anthology.
The new trailer showed slices of a bunch of different shorts from the new series, and one of them definitely looks like three seconds of Reeves sliding his head forward in the sweaty cockpit of a robot. Here’s the trailer: Here’s the part that looks like Reeves: And here’s FromSoftware confirming that it’s an Armored Core story: A new ARMORED CORE saga awaits. Just one of fifteen epic stories from Secret Level, the new revolutionary gaming anthology series coming December 10 on Prime Video.
pic.twitter.com/SHm80ZWqwC — ARMORED CORE (@armoredcore) August 20, 2024 Now there are two reasons this is blowing fans minds.
First, Reeves is awesome, and in addition to starring in timeless classics like The Matrix, John Wick, and Point Break, also delivered an incredible performance as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077, showing you could bring A-list Hollywood talent to a blockbuster video game in a way that felt elegant an.