Live Action Anime

In case you haven’t heard (apparently I didn’t, thanks to an extremely busy schedule, my apologies), the screenwriter for Dreamworks upcoming adaptation of the cyber-punk classic Ghost in the Shell will be submitting a draft of the script in the coming weeks.

The screenwriter, Laeta Kalogridis, also noted that fans should “cross your fingers”, because it [...]

Michael Bay’s official website has posted an update on the upcoming Transformers 3 movie announcing that parts of the film will be shot in Chicago and Moscow.
Spoke with Michael today and got some little info on TF3: there will be big action sequences shot in Chicago and Moscow this time around.

Transformers 3 is set to [...]

In this year’s 13th issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine it was announced that live action television adaptation of Miki Yoshikawa’s Yankee-kun to Megane-chan manga has been green lit. It was also announced that actor Hiroki Narimiya (Gokusen, Akihabara @ DEEP, NANA) will play Yankee-kun (the delinquent) Daichi Shinagawa, while Riisa Naka (The Girl Who [...]

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 [...]

Canadian horror magazine Rue Morgue reports that author Hideyuki Kikuchi (Vampire Hunter D) is busy working on a live action adaptation of Vampire Hunter D with the producer of the Biohazard video game (Resident Evil in North America), writing a new novel about vampires (Yashakiden), and planning a new Vampire Hunter D anime series in [...]

A new short TV spot is out now check it out below:

Source: ComingSoon.net

Props go to ANN for this bit of news

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 [...]

Thanks go out to joeydlf for sending us the link.
Source: Anime Vice

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 [...]