December 2020, and then postponed to 16 December 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Diabolik - Ginko Attacks! (Diabolik - Ginko all'attacco!): scheduled to be released on November 17, 2022, starring Giacomo Gianniotti instead of Marinelli. A third untitled movie is set to be released on 2023. Animated series On 1 January 2000, an animated series, animated by Ashi Productions and produced by Saban Entertainment and Saban International Paris, premiered in Europe and Latin America on Fox Kids, and lasted for 40 episodes before ending on 1 January 2001. The series featured Diabolik and his companion Eva, as they fought and gradually exposed the Brotherhood and Dane, while evading Inspector Ginko. It was directed by Jean Luc Ayach with Paul Diamond and Larry Brody as head writers. Live-action TV series In 2012, Sky TV in conjunction with Sky France and Sky Italy, started work on a TV version of Diabolik. A teaser trailer was made for the production, but by 2015 the production had not been released and there was no further information released by the studio. Video games A total of 12 Diabolik games were developed and released in 1993 by Simulmondo for the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga line of computers. The games were in Italian and were made specifically for the Italian domestic market, seeing only limited distribution elsewhere. Diabolik: The Original Sin is a 2009 video game developed by Artematica and published by Black Bean Games for Wii, PlayStation Portable, PC, Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2 systems. Influence The popularity of Diabolik spurred a long series of characters directly or indirectly inspired to him, generally noticeable by the "criminalizing K" in their name; some of them are a kind of satire. Max Bunker (writer) and Magnus created in the 1960s two of these "K" characters, Kriminal and Satanik, the second being a feminine and horror version. Both are distinguished for their greater realism and for a more substantial sexy style. Killing, an Italian comic book. Paperinik (Duck Avenger) is the volatile superheroic alter-ego of Donald Duck created by Elisa Penna, Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi in 1969. Initially an antihero parody/homage to Fantômas and Diabolik, he quickly became a crimefighter. Cattivik is a humorous version of Diabolik created by Franco Bonvicini in 1967: cattivo means evil/bad in Italian, while diabolico means diabolical. Dorellik is the name of a film starring singer and actor