mmh, sometimes it really pays off to read the entire news entry and follow the links within. The ANN entry on the Jin-Roh live-action adaptation (some of you might remember it) leads to their complete report of the Production I.G panel on Anime Expo 2009 where the following paragraph gives some hope to all Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fans and tachikoma lovers:

During the question and answer session, one fan asked about the possibility of a third season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Terashima-Furuta answered that she expects the project to happen, but that the director is currently tied up in other projects.

I hope those other projects are the two follow-up movies for Eden of the East so director Kenji Kamiyama can get back to the Ghost in the Shell universe ASAP!

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During this years Anime Expo, Production I.G vice-president Maki Terashima-Furuta acknowledged/confirmed that the live-action rights for Jin-Roh – The Wolf Brigade have been sold to “somebody” and that this “somebody” is planning to produce a live-action film based on Hiroyuki Okiura’s anime. However, she wouldn’t spill out any more details on the name of the buyer or when production will start.
I hope it’s a Japanese studio/record company so every role will be played by some young J-Pop star that will storm the charts with their cheesy title song that will also ruin every trailer.
Or maybe an US studio that will dumb down the original to get a PG-13 rating and will just let “some Asian looking guy” (probably Keanu Reeves) take the lead. Can’t wait to see it…
The Jin-Roh universe has already been transferred into the real-world, Mamoru Oshii directed two films, “Stray Dog” and “Red Spectacles” starring the distinctive Kerberos special unit. See Bandai’s trailer for the “Mamoru Oshii Cinema Trilogy Collection” below.

Maybe I’ll just save some money to finally buy the Japanese Jin-Roh Blu-ray Disc release…
[via ANN]

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Unlike reported back in February, Kenji Kamiyama’s anime series Eden of the East (Higashi no Eden) will not get one, but two theatrical adaptations! This has been announced at the end of the last episode (#11 The East That Goes On) that aired on June 18th in Japan.

The first film, The King of Eden is supposed to open on November 28th, three days after the last DVD and Blu-ray Disc volume hits the Japanese stores while Paradise Lost will open in January 2010. While no other details have been announced, I guess these two films will be real sequels to the tv series and not just some kind of unnecessary compilations because the amazing last episode left so many open questions and incomplete plot strands, there just has to be a sequel! You hear me, Kenji!
And because I don’t want to be the only one who can’t get the opening song (Oasis – Falling Down) out of his head, here’s the amazingly well done opening (again):

[via ANN]

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The official website for Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai, the animated biopic about the famous samurai Miyamoto Musashi directed by Mizuho Nishikubo and scripted/concepted by Mamoru Oshii has been given a facelift and is also showing a new trailer. I’m not sure about that CG scenes with the strange old sensei, do you guys think they will be left in the final film when it opens in Japan on June 13th?

[via ANN]

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Production I.G has posted a first short teaser trailer for their latest CG anime project Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Hottarake no Shima – Haruka to Maho no Kagami). The film follows the young girl Haruka who discovers a secret world calles Oblivion Island created by the things we once loved and left behind when we grew up. Unseen by humans, these things sneak into our world to take all the forgotten treasures of our childhood to expand their world…

According to the Production I.G website, Oblivion Island was created to win back market shares from the foreign animation studios. The script was written by Hirotaka Adachi (Goth) and Shinsuke Sato (Princess Blade), the latter will also direct the full length feature film. Oblivion Island is supposed to open across Japan on August 22, 2009.
[via ANN]

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Production I.G + Kenji Kamiyama + Oasis + Web 2.0 Design = Awesome!

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Anime News Network is streaming a new, subtitled Trailer for Mamoru Oshii and Mizuho Nishikubo’s Miyamoto Musashi. While Oshii developed and wrote the script that tells us the life of the famous, real-life samurai Musashi, the movie is actually directed by Mizuho Nishikubo. Production I.G’s Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai will open in theaters across Japan in early summer 2009.

Thanks to Wildgrounds for the YouTube upload!

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