soul reviver

And just when you thought Hollywood was through with reworking live-action Japanese properties for the big screen, here comes another! Deadline is reporting that the December 2011 publication of the Hero’s Magazine manga, Soul Reviver is officially on track for a Hollywood English-language adaptation. The manga, authored by Akishige, Manabu and scribed by Fujisawa Tohru, centers on Ryusuke Jin, a former detective partnered with Clara Sekimachi, a dead high school girl, as both travel between realms of the living and the dead to rescue select souls whose missions in the living world were not complete. Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the producer and director of the 2005 war epic, The Last Samurai, will act respectively, and provide the screenplay for the new film, which Herskovitz will produce for his banner, The Bedford Falls Company, in partnership with Fields Corporation and All Nippon Entertainment Works. Previous efforts to transition the fantasy […]

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