Posts about Adi Shankar
Taken from an interview from USAToday, Adi Shankar had this to say:
“Without getting into the weeds on dirty laundry, [writer] Warren [Ellis] and I did not have a good personal or professional relationship after Season 3 and 4 commenced, and we stopped communicating directly around mid-2019,” Shankar explains “It turned ugly very fast. The wonderful folks at Netflix attempted to mend the bridge, but there is beef there.”
So it's possible, but not in any way, shape or form confirmed, so don't take my word for it, that the way Ellis handled Alucard and Hector in S3 were done to spite Shankar, since in his early interviews, Shankar talked about how those two in particular were his favourites and he promised that Hector would become more like his game counterpart.
Here's the full interview for context. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/11/adi-shankar-interview-devil-may-cry-anime-netflix
Edit: To clarify my opinion on Ellis spiting Shankar, it's due to the freudian nature of the sex scenes and the power plays/domination involved and the specific choice of those two characters in particular, who Shankar stated were his favourites and wanted to adapt faithfully so it can be read as a very intentional slight. I used to study psychology, so I'm applying what I learned, I'm in no way claiming to be 100% right, I'm just stating my opinion.
People like Ellis are an open book, really, once you really study their interviews. Ellis is very, very controlling, it's part of the reason he and IGA never got along back in 2007 when the project was still a movie since IGA tried his best to really tone down some of his weirder antics through extensive review of his drafts and demanding several rewrites and I feel it might've been the same case with Ellis and Shankar, with the rest of the team ultimately siding with Ellis.
It's all theorising on my part, even if some of the interviews act as proof of sorts, though, so feel free to disregard it if you disagree.
