News culture After Saint Seiya, this cult anime will be adapted into a live-action film: it will be a real “carnage”.
Fan of One Punch Man? Rejoice: a new film will actually see the light of day. This will take place in live action and the first details will be announced.
A live-action One Punch Man film!
Are live-action anime adaptations on the rise? Of course, it hasn’t always been a success and there are still many who point the finger at it the Netflix film “Death Note”, the industrial disaster “Dragon Ball Evolution” or the all-new “Knights of the Zodiac”… none other than to recite them. Real traumas that have unwillingly written themselves into popular culture, a bit like a painful reminder of what we shouldn’t do.
And yet, without skipping a beat, Netflix recently outdoed it with the live-action series One Piece, which ended up being pretty well received and gave audiences some hope. We’ll let you judge the ideal format – series or film? – But In any case, Sony Pictures has made its decision with the plan to make a One Punch Man film. So with real actors and real cameras.
In fact, we’ve known about the project for some time, ever since it was officially announced four years ago. Today, The case gets a little more sophisticated with new names to delve into.
Future OR?
At the moment we know this This One Punch Man film is directed by Justin Lin, the director of a series of Fast & Furious (Tokyo Drift, FF 4, FF 5, FF 6 and FF 9). But the news of the day comes to us from The Hollywood Reporter, a famous American media outlet that announces this loud and clear The scenario would have been rewritten by new authors.
Instead of the announced duo Scott Rosenberg/Jeff Pinkner (Venom, Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle) it is that of Dan Harmon and Heather Anne Campbell, who will be behind the script. A fact that has now been officially announced, and the latter screenwriter wasted no time in expressing her excitement.
I think it’s official that I’m working on the One Punch Man movie. Let’s fucking watchhttps://t.co/kKkLkM78Rb
– Heather Anne Campbell (@heathercampbell) April 14, 2024
Scott Rosenberg has a solid pedigree Co-creator and screenwriter of Rick & Morty, who also signed the series Community. Not to be outdone, Heather Anne Campbell has a solid background in the field and brought Rosenberg on to script the sixth season of Rick & Morty, replacing her other co-creator Justin Rolland.
No release window has been announced for this One Punch Man movie yet. Who would you see as Saitama?
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