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Live-Action Manga, TERRA FORMARS, Gets A Teaser And Poster

Rarely have I ever come across any sort of controversy when it comes to mangas or anime movies or shows or anything of the sort. To be honest, the only time I ever pay attention to these is if there’s action involved and making it’s way to some kind of film adaptation, and that includes director Miike Takashi‘s latest manga adaptation, Terra Formars. The film is based on the 2011 manga by Tachibana Kenshi and Sasuga Yū which centers on mankind’s peril when Earth and Mars fall victim to earlier efforts to colonize Mars through the use of modified algae and cockroaches. What now lurks on the planet are giant humanoid, and judging by their depictions interpreted in the manga in this article, I can certainly understand how some might deem this to be, well…a little, hmmmm….racist. That’s not to suggest this will be Miike‘s approach with filming already underway […]

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Del Toro: PACIFIC RIM 2 Is Being Written, No Greenlight Yet

There were a lot of mixed reactions upon last year’s release of director Guillermo del Toro‘s most recent robo-juggernaut vs. monster spectacle, Pacific Rim. The film did okay at the box office, but not great, so the chance of a sequel remained a bit blurry thereafter. And yes, they still are, although that hasn’t stopped del Toro from doing his best to put a new script together for the sequel with screenwriter Zak Penn. “I’m working very, very hard with Zak Penn,” del Toro says. “We’ve been working for a few months now in secret. We found a way to twist it around. Travis Beacham was involved in the storyline and now I’m writing with Zak because Travis has become a TV mogul.” Beacham previously worked on the first film which starred Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi as futuristic synchronized pilots of armed robot vehicles called Jaegers in a devastating […]

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