Live Action Anime

The Hollywood Reporter announced on Monday in one of it’s articles that writer Alex Tse (Watchmen) wrote a script for Warner Brothers live action adaptation of Ninja Scroll. The original anime film from 1993 was written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company acquired the live action adaptation rights to the [...]

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Shock Till You Drop has posted an interview with Laeta Kalogribis, the current screenwriter for Steven Spielberg’s planned live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga. Kalogridis was once also hired by James Cameron to script his planned adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel [...]

Well it looks like director James Cameron is planning on adapting Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM) manga after he makes the sequel to the blockbuster Avatar. That’s what Producer Jon Landau told the MTV Splash Page website. He also explained how director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hobbit) was the one who [...]

New York Magazine’s Vulture blog reports that the Hughes brothers — the directors behind Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, From Hell, and The Book of Eli — are negotiating with the Warner Brothers movie studio to direct the planned live-action film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira manga. ComingSoon.net reported in December that Mark Fergus and [...]

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The ShockTillYouDrop.com website reports that the release date for the live action movie adaptation of Min-Woo Hyung’s Priest horror manhwa has been pushed back from August 27, 2010 to January 14, 2011. The website reports that the reason for the change is so the movie can [...]

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The websites MoviesOnline.ca and ScreenRant.com have both posted interviews with Laeta Kalogridis, the current screenwriter for Dreamworks’ and Steven Spielberg’s planned live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s cyber-police manga Ghost in the Shell. Kalogridis was once also hired by James Cameron to script his planned adaptation of [...]

We’ve all heard the news of the Gantz anime series getting a live-action treatment not too long ago. Well, some footage has finally been released and even though it’s not much, it will still allow people to speculate, which is always fun!  The first film will be released in early 2011 and the second will follow in [...]

Well boys and girls it’s been a pretty damn long wait, and I have to say by the look of the trailer I can’t predict that it will be a great movie, but compared to other awful video game adaptations, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
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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 [...]

An executive producer for the upcoming live action Cowboy Bebop film, Joshua Long, announced his newly renamed company 1212 entertainment would be focusing on live action adaptations of manga, anime, and game titles from Japan, as well as French comics. He also said that his company would have “a lot to announce soon.”
He had announced [...]