The Norse Gods saw the growing hype around , upcoming Jeff-Goldblum-as-Zeus series , and , and said, “Hold my drinking horn.” Well, after 2000 years of burning and pillaging (and one ), Odin, Thor, and the rest of the gang are finally getting their day in the streaming sun. Netflix announced Zach Snyder’s all the way back in 2021, but the director famously doesn’t do anything if it isn’t really, really long.
Ergo, the streamer just announced the animated series’ premiere date today, three whole years later. That’s okay, though—Valhalla has been waiting for centuries. What’s a few years more? officially premieres September 19.
Billed by Netflix as “an all-new daring and spectacular animated vision of Norse mythology,” the official synopsis of reads as follows: “In a mythical world of great battles, great deeds and great despair, Leif, a mortal King, is saved on the battlefield by Sigrid, an iron-willed warrior with whom he falls in love. On their wedding night, Sigrid and Leif survive a wrath of terror from Thor, which sets them—and a crew of crusaders—on an against all odds and merciless mission for vengeance. This heroic story of love, loss and revenge, is a journey to Hell and beyond.
.. across fantastical lands, battlefields fierce and bloody, and wars waged against Gods and demons.
” The streamer also released a bloody first look at the series today, which recalls the art style of classics like and . “The evolution is similar to how I evolve .