2022. LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS. Volume 3: Episode Guide

Created by: Tim Miller
Executive Producers: David Fincher, Tim Miller, Jennifer Miller, Joshua Donen

Supervising Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Supervising Producer: Victoria Howard
Supervising Creative Director: Jerome Denjean

Casting by: Ivy Isenberg, CSA
Senior Supervising Colorist: Doug Delaney
Colorist: Santiago Padilla
Sound Supervisor: Brad North, MPSE
Series Music Consultant: Rob Cairns
Titles by: Elastic
Additional Design Services by: Blur Studio

01. 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.

Running Time: 00:10:20

Director: Patrick Osborne
Animation Produced by: Blow Studio (Spain)
Based on the Short Story Written by: John Scalzi
Adapted Script by: John Scalzi

Music by: Rob Cairns
Editor: Matt Mariska

Starring:
K-VRC: Josh Brener
XBot 4000: Gary Anthony Williams
[3rd Robot]: Siri
Elena: Katie Lowes
The Cat: Chris Parnell

02. 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.

Running Time: 00:21:25

Directed by: David Fincher
Animation Produced by: Blur Studio (USA)
Based on the Short Story Written by: Neal Asher
Adapted Screenplay by: Andrew Kevin Walker

Music by: Jason Hill
Editor: Kirk Baxter, ACE

Prologue Design: Neil Kellerhouse
Colorist: Eric Weidt
Post Producer: Peter Mavromates
Sound Designer: Ren Klyce

Starring:
Torrin: Troy Baker
Turk: Kevin Jackson & Fred Tatasciore
Melis / Calis: Anthony Mark Barrow
Maril: Chantelle Barry
Suparin: Parry Shen
Deacon: Time Winters
Jorvan: James Preston Rogers
Paln: Jason Flemyng
Chantre: Elodie Yung
Cert: Max Fowler

Love, Death + Robots. Inside the Animation: Bad Travelling

03. 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.

Running Time: 00:16:16

Directed by: Emily Dean
Animation Produced by: Polygon Pictures Inc. (Japan)
Based on the Short Story Written by: Michael Swanwick
Adapted Script by: Philip Gelatt

Music by: Rob Cairns
Editors: Matt Mariska, Julian Clarke

Starring:
Martha Kivelson: Mackenzie Davis
Juliet Burton: Holly Jade
Heads Up Display: David Shatraw

Love, Death + Robots. Inside the Animation: The Very Pulse of the Machine

04. 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 LA to the Vatican. It’s the end of the world as we gnaw it.

Running Time: 00:06:03

Directed by: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon
Animation Produced by: BUCK (USA)
Based on the Short Story Written by: Jeff Fowler and Tim Miller
Adapted Script by: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon

Music by: Rob Cairns
Editor: Dave Conte

05. Kill Team Kill

Young, dumb and full of… blood, lots and lots of blood, a ’roid-raging, adrenaline-fuelled force of US 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.

Running Time: 00:12:38

Directed by: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Animation Produced by: Titmouse, Inc. (USA)
Based on the Short Story Written by: Justin Coates
Adapted Script by: Philip Gelatt

Music by: Skrillex
Editor: Matt Mariska

Starring:
Sergeant Morris: Joel McHale
Private Folen: Seth Green
Sergeant Nielsen: Gabriel Luna
Private Coutts & Private Macy: Steve Blum
Private Erwin: Andrew Kishino

Love, Death + Robots. Inside the Animation: Kill Team Kill

06. 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.

Running Time: 00:16:16

Directed by: Tim Miller
Animation Produced by: Blur Studio (USA)
Based on the Short Story Written by: Bruce Sterling
Adapted Script by: Tim Miller, Philip Gelatt

Music by: Tom Holkenborg
Additional Music by: Shwan Askari
Editors: Julian Clarke, Jim May
Sound Designer: Craig Hennigan

Starring:
Dr. Mirny: Rosario Dawson
Afriel: Jason Winston George
Springtail & Investor: Fred Tatasciore

07. 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.

Running Time: 00:09:37

Directed by: Carlos Stevens
Animation Produced by: Axis Studios (UK)
Based on the Short Story Written by: Neal Asher
Adapted Script by: Joe Abercrombie

Music by: Rob Cairns
Lead Editor: Stephen Mulholland, BFE

Starring:
Mason: Craig Ferguson
Nigel & Technician: Dan Stevens

08. 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.

Running Time: 00:13:48

Directed by: Jerome Chen
Animation Produced by: Sony Pictures Imageworks (Canada)
Based on the Short Story Written by: Alan Baxter
Adapted Script by: Philip Gelatt

Music by: Rob Cairns
Editors: Jim May, Tyler Nelson, Sabrina Pitre
Sound Designer: Craig Hennigan

Starring:
Coulthard: Joe Manganiello
Harper: Christian Serratos
Spencer: Jai Courtney
Beaumont: Noshir Dalal
Dilman: Stanton Lee
Gladstone: Jeff Schine
Possessed Harper: Debra Wilson
Bound God & Raptor Base: Fred Tatasciore

Unreal Engine Spotlight: Behind the scenes of Netflix’s ‘In Vaulted Halls Entombed’

Love, Death & Robots: Layering Sounds of Terror

09. 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.

Running Time: 00:17:16

Directed by: Alberto Mielgo
Animation Produced by: pinkman.tv (Spain)
Written by: Alberto Mielgo

Music by: Killawatt
Editor: Alberto Mielgo
Sound Design: Alberto Mielgo

Starring:
Jibaro: Girvan ‘Swirv’ Bramble

Choreographer: Sara Silkin
Dancers (Golden Woman): Sara Silkin, Megan Goldstein
Additional Dancers: Raymond Ejiofor, Myles Lavallee, Judson Emery

Love, Death + Robots. Inside the Animation: Jibaro