Breaking News! Very excited to present to y’all my new Netflix Original Series currently in production called “Captain Laserhawk.”@Ubisoft allowed me to create a new Universe for them that acts as a “Blood Dragon remix” of all Ubisoft properties ... think Captain N: The Game Masters but good ... or the Bootleg Universe short films without copyright infringement! Thank you Hugo, Helene, Gerard, and Claire for allowing this Elseworlds inspired craziness to happen. Thank you @Netflix for seeing the potential in a cyberpunk dystopia set in 1992. After Castlevania I felt it was time to take a big, unexpected, Bootleg Universe pivot. The animation is being done by the epic folks at Bobby Pills ... together we’ve blended a plethora of art styles to deliver a visually distinct nostalgic acid trip. Mehdi Leffad is our fabulous series director. The artist known as Balak is the creative director at Bobby Pills and is also creatively overseeing this production. Finally, a heartfelt thank you to my writing team Samuel Laskey, Craig Coyne, and my #2 Alex Larsen (fun fact: Alex calls himself Kid Twist). #CaptainLaserhawk
The series that started it all! The ‘Bootleg Universe One-Shots’ are a cult series of fan films — video street art that weaponizes pop culture iconography to deliver subversive messages. Each installment is a cinematic protest, remixing beloved franchises into gritty, thought-provoking visions that blur the line between homage and rebellion.
An unapologetically badass anime adaptation of the legendary Capcom franchise. Officially licensed & totally possessed. Welcome to a new timeline.
Ubisoft joined forces with Bootleg Universe to blow up its own canon — birthing an Elseworlds-style shared universe remix of its biggest franchises, filtered through the Bootleg Universe outlaw imagination. Corporate IP has never felt this dangerous.
What if the Justice League got hijacked by a drug fueled punk rock video game from the ‘90s? The Guardians of Justice — an explosive, genre-bending fever dream that mixes live-action, animation, claymation, pixel art, and madness into one brutal satirical cocktail. It's Saturday morning cartoons if they were written by Nietzsche and edited by a hacker. Heroes? Flawed. The world? Doomed. The vibes? Justice never looked this insane.
In this mildly inappropriate & unreservedly unfiltered video blog I try my best to answer the questions that I get asked the most.
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