Warner Brothers in Film Talks for Bleach Manga
posted on 2010-03-22 00:40 EDT
The Hollywood Reporter's blog says Get Smart's Peter Segal is negotiating
The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reports that the American film studio Warner Brothers "is in the process of securing the movie rights to" Tite Kubo's Bleach supernatural action manga series. Director Peter Segal (Get Smart, The Longest Yard, Anger Management) is lining himself up to produce, but not direct. The manga's North American publisher Viz Media and Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing would also produce the proposed project.
The manga follows a 15-year-old boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who becomes a Soul Reaper — a "Shinigami" or "God of Death" who protects humans from the "Hollow" spirits that prey on them. Shueisha publishes the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan, and Studio Pierrot has been adapting the manga on television and in movie theaters since 2004. The Adult Swim programming block of America's Cartoon Network and Canada's YTV channel have been running the anime.
Warner Brothers has already acquired the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note supernatural suspense manga, which — like Bleach — is published by Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan and by Viz Media in North America. Along with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company, Warner Brothers is also developing adaptations of Yoshiaki Kawajiri and MADHOUSE's Ninja Scroll action anime film and Katsuhiro Otomo and Kodansha's Akira science-fiction manga. Viz set up an office in Hollywood in 2008 to promote Viz's properties to Hollywood interests.
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Raise your hand if you're expecting Dragonball @ best
HollyHope doesn't seem to care if it fails or not. Take a good look at The Air Bender Trilogy, or don't if you want to save yourself an abysmal experience. They have tentativly agreed to a sequel to that shit pile.
They are too mainstream to satisfy hardcore anime fans and too intrigued by the lure of the all mighty dollar to care.
Although the only other option to anime becoming live action is coming straight from Japan. To know how they would fair one only need look at the recent live action Casshern movie.
Not good, no my anime cohorts not good at all..................
08-15-2010, 05:29 AM
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