I posted this on the Castlevania Subreddit, but I think it belongs here, too.
With Castlevania season 4 being the last season with Warren Ellis' involvement, there are three possibilities, the first is that they get a new writer to replace him, preferably Scott Snyder since he played the games, the second is that season 4 is the last season and the third is that they reboot the series. With the exception of the way Alucard and Hector were handled, I quite liked the Netflix series and am grateful that it put Castlevania back on the map, so I hope it doesn't end too abruptly.
I've had this idea for a reboot that you guys might find crazy, but the more you think about it, the more it will make sense.
My idea for a reboot is to use Castlevania Legends as a starting point with Sonia Belmont and Alucard as the protagonist. It hits all the right spots, you get an awesome female protagonist in Sonia, a brooding and charismatic love interest in Alucard and a coming of age story with the same story beats as the Netflix series and the backstory of Symphony of the Night also you get the bonus of having the best part of Lords of Shadow's story, the Belmonts being descendants of Dracula and the entire story being one big family affair. I know Legends was a poorly received and obscure game in the franchise that was struck from canon, but that's what will make it work so well, it'll be an unfamiliar story and given that there's no future games in the Legends timeline, the writers and directors have almost complete freedom with where they want to take the stories of sequels. So, what do you guys think and do you have any ideas of your own? I know Lament of Innocence would be the obvious choice, but then after that, it'll have to be yet another Castlevania III adaptation and it'll be hard for that adaptation to step out of the shadow of the current Netflix animation.