As Netflix’s Umbrella Academy heads toward its fourth and final season, the series showrunner Steve Blackman has been looking for a new project. Now, he has been found as the man who will helm the new Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation that has been officially greenlit at Netflix, though that’s not the only project that he’ll be leading for the streaming service, according to Tudum.

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Blackman sat down with Tudum to talk about his plans for the fourth season of Umbrella Academy and to recap the third season that just aired earlier this summer. However, the conversation eventually turned to what he was planning and what he thinks about the Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation and his other project, Orbital. In particular, Blackman talked about how the two new projects are quite different, but there is a “clear throughline” when it comes to the heroes of Orbital and the main character of Horizon Zero Dawn. He then explained that he likes characters who are kind of “outliers” but grounded and relatable. These outliers are people who are struggling to find their place in the world. They tend to be people who are going to be going against the grain when it comes to the rules and norms of the world they exist in.

This description certainly fits the bill when it came to the characters in Umbrella Academy. The description certainly also seems to do a good job of describing Horizon Zero Dawn’s main character in Aloy. She’s someone who is absolutely an outlier in her world, considering she starts off her story as a total outcast from her community and ends up being someone who the many people she runs across look up to.

Blackman did also confirm what had only been rumored before when it came to the Netflix adaptation in that Aloy is indeed the main character of the series. Previously, there had been some talk that it might be set in the same world as the video game but would star brand new characters who gamers had never met. It turns out that this Netflix series is going to be staying more true to the original story of Horizon Zero Dawn as laid out by Guerrilla Games.

Horizon Zero Dawn is in development at Netflix.

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Source: Tudum