Live Action Anime

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Just in time for one last podcast in the first decade of the 2000’s, myself and Thrash Til Death discuss everything that’s gone on in the wide world of Live Action Anime adapatations in the past several weeks.  And you can downlaod it right HERE!

 
In this episode, Thrash and I discuss recent happenings with the Cowboy [...]

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From the shadows I emerge to post this news I found over at ANN.  Seems as though director Mamour Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers) has in the works a live action version of the acclaimed manga Tetsujin 28.  He made the announcement during a press conference for his latest live action Assault [...]

Well, it’s that time again, everyone, when that benevolent, obese spirit of jollity (Santa, if that was unnecessarily abstract for anyone) has been and gone. Many of you, this December 25th, may have been blessed either with anime, or with vouchers or cash to obtain anime. But before you go rushing off to the inevitable [...]

The Japan Times news website posted an interview with director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers, Patlabor) on Friday regarding his new live-action film Assault Girls, which premiered in Japan on Saturday, December 19. This film is Oshii’s first live-action feature film since 2001’s Avalon.
The science-fiction story is set on a post-apocalyptic [...]

Seems I missed this exciting interview earlier this week due to the craziness of finals.  But anyways, here is some awesome news for fans of Battl Angel Alita and James Cameron. The acclaimed director, whose recent film Avatar just premiered yesterday, sat down to talk about his new film, as well as his upcoming live [...]

According to ANN, the trailer for the upcoming live action adaptation of Naoki Serizawa’s manga Saru Lock is currently streaming on the film’s official website and Yahoo Japan.

The manga, which was already turned into a live TV show in Japan, follows the life of Yataro “Saru” Sarmaru, a regular high school kid who dreams about [...]

Credit goes to ANN for this update. Gary Whitta, former screenwriter for Warner Brothers’ upcoming live-action adaptaion of Akira, has recently posted an update on some details of the film’s script. The script has since been turned over to Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, with Whitta not having worked on the project “for about a [...]

Thanks go to ANN for this bit of information on the upcoming live-action adaptation of Priest, the Korean horror manhwa by Min-Woo Hyung. It seems the film’s release date, previously announced as October 1st, 2010, will be getting pushed forward to August 27th. The shift is attributed to the announcement Resident Evil: Afterlife will be [...]

Credit goes to the UK’s NEO magazine for this bit of news. Word has it that Masahiro Minami, producer on Studio BONES’ chambara epic Sword of the Stranger, and alumnus of Sunrise Studio, will be serving as a “creative manager” in the upcoming 20th Century Fox adaptation of Cowboy Bebop.
Minami says, “In terms of my [...]