Furi Slices Into TV: First Teaser For The Stylish Game Adaptation

Furi is making the jump from sweaty-palmed controller killer to TV miniseries, and the first teaser just landed. Midnight Embers Productions is behind it, working directly with the original game studio The Game Bakers, and they are aiming to drop the show on digital on November 8, 2025.

So, what is this thing?

The teaser gives a first look at Barty Shepherd (Next Big Thing, Sinners Haven) as The Rider. He has legit fight chops — he has performed martial arts at the London Royal Opera House — and the footage leans hard into that. The vibe they are pitching is very much: trippy visuals, relentless action, big existential stakes.

Cast and characters

• Barty Shepherd as The Rider (also the showrunner and writer)
• Yanick Ghanty as The Voice
• James Unsworth as The Chain and The Hand
• Julian London as The Line
• Olivia Jannesson as The Song
• Ermar Alexander as The Line
• Fabio Miale as The Edge
• Tamaira Hesson as The Beat
• Charlie Griffiths as The Star

Yes, the materials list two different actors as The Line (Julian London and Ermar Alexander). Either there are multiple incarnations, or someone typoed a character name. We will see which way that goes.

Who is making it

Shepherd is not just starring — he is writing and running the show too. Lucy Miles is producing for Midnight Embers Productions. To keep it faithful, they developed the series in close collaboration with The Game Bakers. Music-wise, they are promising a soundtrack stacked with the game’s cult-favorite artists: Carpenter Brut, Danger, and (as the blurb puts it) The Toxic Avengers. The plural there is... interesting.

The setup

Here is the clean version of the premise: The Rider, a lone warrior who has been locked up for years in a mystical otherworldly prison, gets sprung by a figure called The Voice. From there, it is a gauntlet through surreal worlds and brutal arenas, each ruled by a Guardian with their own agenda — and with secrets buried under the boss-fight veneer. The Rider’s bigger mission: fight his way out and stop his species from being wiped out.

"Enter Furi and meet The Rider, a lone warrior, who, after years of incarceration in an otherworldly, mystical prison, has been freed by a mysterious figure known as The Voice."

The show is framing all of these warriors as people with their own demons and their own definitions of justice — freedom, redemption, pride, power, love — which means the line between hero and villain is intentionally blurry. It is pitched as a mind-bender with pulse to spare; that tracks with the game’s DNA.

When and where

The Furi miniseries is expected to hit digital on November 8, 2025. Trailer’s out now. Hat tip to Maggie Dela Paz at SuperHeroHype for catching it first.