The most recent update regarding Hollywood’s Your Name remake—which was revealed back in 2017 and aims to take Makoto Shinkai’s hit film into the live-action realm—had the director changing from Marc Webb to Lee Isaac Chung (Munyurangabo, Minari). We’ve had some time to process the …Read more »
Last week, Sega announced plans to produce a live-action Yakuza film in conjunction with 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content. While a Hollywood take on one of the company’s most successful series seems like a no-brainer, not everyone was convinced about the prospect. It didn’t …Read more »
Cowboy Bebop has a live-action remake in the chutes, and how fans feel about that varies. On the one hand, having director Shinichiro Watanabe and composer Yokko Kanno on board is encouraging. And the cast looks pretty good. On the other… such projects don’t have …Read more »
Amid all the madness of the past few months, we kind of forgot that The Promised Neverland was getting a live-action film adaptation! Now here to remind us is the film’s first official teaser trailer and poster. Based on the popular manga by Kaiu Shirai …Read more »
Yowamushi Pedal is set to pedal its way into Japanese theaters August 14 via a new live-action adaptation. The film, entitled simply Yowamushi Pedal, stars Ren Nagase as Sakamichi Onoda, Kentaro Ito as Shunsuke Imaizumi and Kanna Hashimoto as Miki Kanzaki. It’s directed by Koichiro …Read more »
Another manga and anime series is getting ready to make the leap to live-action. According to Variety, this time it’s writer Kaiu Shirai and illustrator Posuka Demizu’s The Promised Neverland, which now has a live-action series adaptation in the works at Amazon. So far, we …Read more »
Kingdom, the large-scale live-action adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s manga from last year, is getting a sequel. Like the first film, the sequel will be directed by Shinsuke Sato and feature a screenplay written in part by Kingdom creator Hara. Stars Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa and …Read more »
Now that’s a double whammy. Both upcoming Rurouni Kenshin Final Chapter films, the long-awaited sequels to the lauded original trilogy, have been delayed due to you-know-what. Originally set for a July and August release in Japan, they’re now set to come out in April and May …Read more »
Netflix is hard at work on live-action adaptations of Cowboy Bebop and One Piece—or as much work as they can do during a pandemic, anyway. Producer Marty Adelstein recently had an interview with SyFy Wire in which he let us in on how both shows …Read more »
If you watched the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! anime, you remember the awesome results of the film club’s attempt at creating a giant robot anime short. That robot can now be seen in another towering form thanks to the new trailer for the live-action …Read more »
It was only a matter of time, but ONE’s One-Punch Man—which really blew up thanks to its anime adaptation based on the Yusuke Murata-illustrated version of the manga—is officially coming to Hollywood. Sony announced plans to develop a live-action One-Punch Man movie, and they’ve already …Read more »
There’s no telling when Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop will actually hit the streaming service, but there’s already talk of a second season. That’s the word from Jeff Pinkner, a writer and executive producer for the show. In an interview about the show for Observer, Pinkner …Read more »
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning, the latest (and last) films in the live-action Kenshinverse are on the way. The two films are set to hit Japanese theaters on July 3 and August 7. Now we’ve got a new poster for the …Read more »
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final and The Beginning are mere months away from slashing their way into Japanese theaters. Now we’ve learned who’s set to play Tomoe Yukishiro in the films: Kasumi Arimura. Arimura is best known among manga and anime fans for her roles in …Read more »
I don’t know about you, but it’s still kind of hard for me to even picture a live-action One Piece series. Netflix wants you to do just that, though, and the streaming service celebrated the recent birthday of Straw Hat cook Sanji by asking fans …Read more »
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