THR reports that the US and Dominican Republic-based production group The Indomina Group announced during Comic Con the plan to produce a live-action adaptation of Takeshi Okazaki’s Afro Samurai manga.
Samuel L. Jackson, who voiced the grunty samurai in Studio Gonzo’s award-winning anime series will co-produce the film together with the animation studio. Shootings are supposed to start in the Dominican Republic next year, but footage of early stuntmen training sessions has already leaked…
This should be pretty interesting, especially if they’re trying to bring all of Afro’s weird enemies to the screen.

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The official website for Shinsuke Sato’s live-action adaptation of GANTZ has been updated with a first teaser and trailer for the second part GANTZ: Perfect Answer which will open in Japanese theaters in April.
Teaser:

Trailer:

[via Nippon Cinema]

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First poster for the second part of Shinsuke Sato’s live-action adaptation of GANTZ called Perfect Answer which will open in Japanese (and probably selected US) theaters in April.

[via Filmsmash]

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The second teaser for Shinsuke Sato’s two-part live-action adaptation of the GANTZ manga promised in the headline is available at the official website. I didn’t embed it here because it doesn’t show anything more than the firrst official trailer above.
[via Nippon Cinema]

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The Japanese website for Shinsuke Sato’s two-part live-action adaptiotion of GANTZ is now featuring the official first teaser trailer. It doesn’t show much more than the previously screened TV promo videos, but the quality is much better and it gladly lacks those noisy voiceovers and random celebrity popups.

[via ANN]

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Asian Blu-ray Guide Contributor AnimeOnBlu just reported that Well Go USA will release Mamoru Oshii’s Assault Girls not only on DVD (as mentioned here) but also on Blu-ray Disc on October 19th. So Oshii fans have the chance to get their Girls with Guns kick with English subtitles for cheap if they don’t want to import the Japanese release.
My copy of the Japanese limited edition Blu-ray Disc arrived a few days ago and will be the subject of my next Blu-ray Disc Spotlight.
Pre-order Mamoru Oshii’s Assault Girls on Blu-ray Disc at Amazon.com

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After the first announcement back in December, the first images from Mamoru Oshii’s live-action adaptation of Tetsujin 28 (aka Gigantor) have surfaced. The film will be called 28 ½, I guess to seperate this version from the other adapations.
The first shot kinda reminds me of Oshii’s The Sky Crawlers…

[via Twitch & Official Website]

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