Ugly author Scott Westerfeld is in business with Netflix. After his dystopian film about a sci-fi beauty craze, his alternative World War I story is now being adapted by the streaming service.
While Ugly – Don’t Lose Your Face is still in the Netflix movie charts, the streamer is already announcing the next project based on author
Scott Westerfeld. This time, it’s a futuristic and adventurously pumped-up steampunk version of World War I from Leviathan, complete with spiked helmets, tank mechs and sci-fi monsters.
The alternative history is adapted from the novels Leviathan, Behemoth and Goliath. But not in live action with people of flesh and blood, 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 Ferdinand, whose assassination is known to have triggered the First World War. In 1914, right before the war begins, he finds himself on the run in a so-called Stormwalker, as the new steampunk war machines are called. Caught between several parties, he flees from his own people in a Teutonic mech.
In the Alps, Aleks finally comes into contact with the British airship Leviathan – an innovative mix of animal and machine. The crew is on a secret mission to the Ottoman Empire and has the aviator Deryn on board, who is disguised as a boy and henceforth makes common cause 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:
