The critically acclaimed, audience celebrated adult animation anthology Love, Death + Robots is returning to Netflix with nine visually stunning sci-fi/horrror shorts this month. In the official trailer debuted today, catch a glimpse of strange worlds, wild alien lifeforms and some familiar robot faces…
As detailed in the newly revealed episode & directors list, these tales are brought to life by a lineup of celebrated directors, including exec producer David Fincher (making his animation directing debut) and the return of Oscar- and Emmy-winning director Alberto Mielgo (Windshield Wiper, LDR – The Witness). The 11-time-Emmy-winning series is executive produced by Tim Miller, David Fincher, Jennifer Miller and Joshua Donen.
Ahead of its rollout to streaming screens, fans can catch the best of Volumes 1 & 2 and a sneak peek at Volume 3, plus a livestream Q&A with Fincher, Tim Miller and supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson on May 10 at Alamo Drafthouse cinemas across the U.S. (More info here.)
Love, Death + Robots Volume 3 premieres on Netflix on May 20. You can read more about the third season in the supersized 35th Anniversary Issue of Animation Magazine (June/July ’22, No. 321), available soon!
Volume 3 Episodes:
Three Robots: Exit Strategies
The first direct sequel in Love, Death + Robots history — from the mind of acclaimed sci-fi novelist John Scalzi. The titular trio of droll droids return to take a whirlwind tour studying post-apocalyptic human survival strategies before mankind was finally snuffed out.
Director: Patrick Osborne (Pearl,Feast)
Writer: John Scalzi
Studio: Blow Studio
Bad Travelling
A jable shark-hunting sailing vessel is attacked by a giant crustacean whose size and intelligence is matched only by its appetite. Mutiny, betrayal and ventriloquism with a corpse… welcome aboard the animation directing debut of David Fincher.
Director: David Fincher (Mindhunter, Mank)
Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker, based on the short story by Neal Asher
Studio: Blur Studio
The Very Pulse of the Machine
When an exploratory expedition on the surface of the moon Io ends in disaster, an astronaut must trek to safety dragging the body of her co-pilot while using potentially mind-warping drugs to deal with the pain of her own injuries in this trippy tribute to comic-book legend Moebius.
Director: Emily Dean (Andromeda; story artist: The LEGO Batman Movie, Hair Love)
Writer: Philip Gelatt, from a short story by Michael Swanwick
Studio: Polygon Pictures
Night of the Mini Dead
The apocalypse is conceived — literally — in a graveyard in this biting zombie satire, which starts with some cheeky cemetery sex and accelerates into a walking dead invasion of everywhere — from downtown L.A. to the Vatican. It’s the end of the world as we gnaw it.
Directors: Robert Bisi, Andy Lyon
Writers: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon, from a short story by Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller
Studio: BUCK
Kill Team Kill
Young, dumb and full of… blood, lots and lots of blood, a ’roid-raging, adrenaline-fuelled force of U.S. soldiers faces a foe unlike any they have faced before, the result of a CIA experiment that gets really fucking Grizzly. From the director of Kung Fu Panda 2.
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Writer: Philip Gelatt, from a short story by Justin Coates
Studio: Titmouse, Inc.
Swarm
A story of fear, sex and philosophy on the farthest frontier, as two post-human scientists study an apparently mindless insectoid-race. Tim Miller writes and directs the first ever screen adaptation of the work from renowned Cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling.
Director: Tim Miller (Deadpool,Terminator: DarkFate)
Writer: Tim Miller, based on the short story by Bruce Sterling
Studio: Blur Studio
Mason’s Rats
You know you have a pest control problem when they start to shoot back. The ratpocalypse comes to Scotland, as a grumpy farmer takes drastic steps to deal with an invasion of hyper-evolved rodents. Exterminator: Judgment Day.
Director: Carlos Stevens (The Alchemist’s Letter)
Writer: Joe Abercrombie, based on the short story by Neal Asher
Studio: Axis Studios
In Vaulted Halls Entombed
Deep in the mountains of Afghanistan, a squad of Special Forces soldiers has the dangerous job of recovering a hostage held by terrorists. But the real evil they must confront is an elder god of ancient and terrifying power.
Director: Jerome Chen (LDR – Lucky 13)
Writer: Philip Gelatt, based on a short story by Alan Baxter
Studio: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Jibaro
Fantasy and greed combine in this re-imagining of the traditional folktale of a siren whose song lures men to their doom. But her sorcery fails to work on the deaf knight, Jibaro, and the Golden Woman becomes fascinated by him. Thus begins a deadly dance of two predators.
Director: Alberto Mielgo
Writer: Alberto Mielgo
Studio: Pinkman.tv
