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Actors Rosario Dawson and Tony Revolori are each set to star in Ghosts of Smash, a Western anime sequence from Gala Movie, the leisure arm of Web3 startup Gala Video games.
Ghosts of Smash follows a gaggle of players as they navigate a probably lethal event in a near-future dystopian model of San Francisco through which video games are synced instantly into gamers’ minds and indistinguishable from actual life.
The sequence, produced and developed by new media content material studio Battle Island, will characteristic authentic music from composer Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers collective.
Dawson, most lately identified for portraying the Star Wars character Ahsoka Tano in a number of Disney+ sequence—together with The Mandalorian, The Ebook of Boba Fett, and the upcoming restricted sequence Ashoka—will voice Prism, a stand-offish professional gamer lifeless set on successful the event.
Revolori, who starred in 2014 Wes Anderson movie The Grand Budapest Resort and Marvel Studios’ newest Spider-Man movie franchise, will voice sequence protagonist Lee, a small-time gamer who joins the event on the final minute.
The pilot episode of Ghosts of Smash will debut on Gala’s platform in August, however will initially solely be made accessible to holders of specialised NFTs bought to fund the present’s manufacturing. The NFTs, arrange in 4 tiers, supply various ranges of immersive entry to the sequence.
Essentially the most primary tier, “The Coder,” presents entry to the present, associated unique content material, and different digital collectibles for $250 value of GALA tokens. Essentially the most rarefied tier of NFT, “The Board Member,” allowed holders to be instantly concerned within the present’s manufacturing as a personality or contributor. 45 of these passes have been bought for $2,500 value of GALA every.
After debuting the pilot on Gala Movie, the sequence’ producers hope to buy it as a proof of idea to a significant streaming service.
“It was necessary for us to assist this mission. We imagine within the style, the group’s strategy and the sequence is an ideal melding of well timed storytelling with top-tier inventive expertise,” Gala Movie CEO Sara Buxton mentioned in a press release, including that the Web3 components will “present a extra rewarding expertise” for all concerned by way of digital possession and advantages.
Ghosts of Smash is showrun and written by Michael Ryan, who lately served because the showrunner on the Apple TV+ authentic animated sequence Wolfboy and The Every part Manufacturing facility. The sequence was created by Battle Island’s PJ Accetturo and Ryan Ramsey.
Final month, actors Danny Trejo and Mena Suvari jumped aboard RZR, one other Web3-native sequence from Gala set to premiere solely on the startup’s platform this summer time.
Final week, Gala bumped into some hassle when crypto alternate Coinbase abruptly introduced that it will not assist an upgraded model of the corporate’s GALA token, with out elaborating as to why.