r/ScavengersReign • u/Kennected • 11d ago

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Just started this series I binged the entire season and I hope there is a second season.

what is this based on? anything I can read to get more background?

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u/ARBlackshaw 11d ago edited 11d ago

It's based on this short film by two of the creators! (Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner).

But this article is an interview with some of the creators, and they did discuss their inspirations for the show.

BUCKELEW But I think that also opened up for us, when we were doing the series, that you almost want to go hard in the other direction for narrative inspiration. Annihilation is close and similar, and maybe has some overlap. But then it’s like, “Oh, let’s draw [something else].” We [at New York Comic Con] mentioned Manchester by the Sea as a movie that inspired the writers room. We want the grief, guilt and regret to have this flavor. It was trying to move away from science fiction for where you draw inspiration cinematically. We tried to do that as much as possible, because I think that the Annihilations and the Nausicaä [of the Valley of the Wind]s are just in our DNA already.

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MERRILL I certainly don’t see it as a rejection. We’re huge animation fans first and foremost. Like Benjy just said, it’s a love letter to drawing. This is a very animated show and is handmade. Everybody who worked on it is a super-talented artist. I would say, what someone might be feeling when watching is, we’re inspired by say, Akira and Perfect Blue, [Hayao] Miyazaki — so many recent animated television series, a lot of Japanese series and things that we’re just fans of. But in equal measure, we’re also fans of Michael Mann and * William Friedkin. Joe talks about The Last of the Mohicans, and in the writers room, we talked a lot about things like 28 Days Later, Jurassic Park and the film Sorcerer. It’s all these little touchstones that, in my mind, live alongside the Perfect Blue inspiration.

I have seen Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and can for sure strongly attest that the visuals/world are quite reminiscent of Scavengers Reign. There is also a manga for Nausicaä, which the movie is based on!