TIGER & BUNNY Is Back In Live Action Development, ‘Iron Fist Season 2’ Showrunner To Adapt New Series For Streaming
The long-stagnated development of manga/anime property Tiger & Bunny is breathing new life coming into the weekend.
The long-stagnated development of manga/anime property Tiger & Bunny is breathing new life coming into the weekend.
Apple TV+ is revving up its engines for a new live-action televised take on Tatsuo Yoshida’s 1960s manga IP, Speed Racer. Multiple trade sources are discussing the series and there’s word that J.J. Abrams will exec produce the series via his Bad Robot banner, with Hiram Martinez (Snowpiercer, Get Shorty) co-writing and serving as showrunner.
• Rivulet Films and Village Roadshow Pictures are pairing up for a sequel to F. Gary Gray’s 2009 thriller, Law Abiding Citizen. The original starred Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx in the story of a prosecutor in a battle of wits when a frustrated father commits a grisly act of vengeance for the murder of his wife and daughter ten years earlier. Plot details are under wraps but Kurt Wimmer is back to pen the sequel along with Butler who will produce with his partners via G-Base. (Deadline)
• Elevate Artist Management’s Paris-based talent agent Florent Lamy is announced a new studio effort to kickoff an ambitious Marvel-style operation to adapt long forgotten French comic book superheroes, including ’L’Archer Blanc’ (The White Archer), and Jean-Yves Mitton’s Mirkos saga and spin-offs therein, to name a few. The adaptations will be for televsion and film in French and English. (Screendaily)
Australia’s Aquarius Films and Irish production company Port Pictures will jointly produce The Good People, based on the award-winning novel by Hannah Kent (the upcoming Run Rabbit Run), who adapted it for the screen.
• Universal is on the way with the first of a back-to-back finale of the Fast saga with Louis Leterrier directing Fast X, and with none other than Scott Eastwood confirmed to reprise his role from The Fate Of The Furious. He joins newly-added Alan Ritchson along with Jason Momoa, and the usual Fast cadre led by franchise main Vin Diesel for its May 2023 release. (THR)
Matt Corman and Chris Ord are attached to write and executive produce a new Daredevil series for Disney+, a move that makes things all but official following years of rumors since its Netflix cancellation in 2018, and recent confirmation that series actor Charlie Cox’s cameo in a recent Marvel/Sony pic affirmed that his portrayal is canon for the MCU.
Whether you’re a fan of Stephen Norrington’s loose iteration of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) or any of the properties on which it is based, it’s worth reiterating that no title is sacred in today’s era. Alas, it should come to no suprise that a reboot has been in the works for sometime now, and for this, we turn over to what’s happening over at Disney’s studio division with word via THR that Justin Haythe (The Lone Ranger, Snitch, Revolutionary Road) is penning the screenplay for the potential Hulu release.
Jeymes Samuel (a.k.a. “The Bullitts”) is moving forward with Biblical epic, The Book Of Clarence, which will star Lakeith Stanfield (Death Note, Sorry To Bother You). The film rejoins the two following Samuel’s hit Netflix Western, The Harder They Fall, in which Stanfield portrays Cherokee Bill, a member of the notorious gang led by outlaw Rufus Buck, played by Idris Elba in the film.
L.A.-based Upgrade Productions is pairing up with Japanese production label Shochiku (Tora-san franchise) to produce eight-part series drama, A True Novel. Acclaimed writer Riko Sakaguchi (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Mary and the Witches Flower, After The Rain) is penning the series.
“Project Nemesis”, the first of a 5.6-part Kaiju novel series from author Jeremy Robinson, is on track for a television debut with none other than Chad Stahelski set to direct and executive produce for Sony TV, according to Deadline‘s Denise Petski.
Casting is underway with plans toward a summer shoot on action comedy series, Obliterated, which has moved from TBS to Netflix as of Monday. The show hails from Sony Pictures Television and is being shepherded by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the minds behind hit Karate Kid spin-off series, Cobra Kai.
John Woo fans have more to celebrate following the auteur’s 75th birthday, specificially for folks who are subscribed to NBCUniversal streamer Peacock with the announcement of a remake of 1989 action hit, The Killer.
CinemaCon is the place to be for the latest developments and announcements on some of the biggest titles to make the news rounds. As of a short while ago, that finally includes confirmation of a sequel to Matt Reeves’ hit adaptation of The Batman, with Reeves returning to direct leading man Robert Pattinson back in the cape and cowl.
Disney+ series Hawkeye helmer Rhys Thomas is on deck to direct a live-action adaptation of hit animated series Robotech. The move marks the latest update since its development fifteen years ago, firstly setting up shop at Warner Bros. before the studio applied its Hollywood Gang label some years later and circling a number of producers and writers to get the cogs spinning, and even hiring Aquaman director James Wan to direct back in 2015.
Deadline‘s Alexandra Del Rosario is reporting that John Wick franchise scribe Derek Kolstad has penned a script on spec for a live-action treatment of popular side scrolling video game, Streets Of Rage.
A television adaptation is set to be pitched to the markets according to reports from Deadline‘s Tom Grater. The news comes bundled with word of the companies latest representation of filmmaker Kim Yong-hwa, who directed the back-to-back 2017 and 2018 live-action adaptations based on Joo Min-ho’s celebrated 2010 webcomic.
According to Deadline‘s Anthony D’Alessandro, Lionsgate is partnering up with actress Zoë Bell for an adaptation of Bell’s Boss Bitch Fight Challenge. The film takes its cues from the comedic Fight Challenge viral video trend that took shape when stunt performer Aaron Toney cut together the inaugural video that started it all.
Deadline has it on good terms that Chad Stahelski’s live-action Ghosts Of Tsushima is well on track for its development over at Sony Pictures and Playstation Productions.
What you’re seeing below in this article and the thumbnail is the preliminary artwork actor, stunt multi-hyphenate and filmmaker Troy Sandford (Ip Man 4: The Finale) has allowed us to share, announcing his feature directing debut, Death Touch. Sanford, who is based in Beijing with his own self-titled stunt unit, Troy’s Team, is partnering with Australia’s Rhythmic Films.
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