Warner Wants Bleach?
The Hollywood Reporter reveals word that Warner Bros. “is in the process of securing the movie rights to” Tite Kubo’s supernatural action manga Bleach. Peter Segal, director of movies including Get Smart & Anger Management, would produce a prospective American Bleach motion picture in collaboration with his Callahan Filmworks co-executive Michael Ewing, and English language manga publisher Viz Media.
Warner Bros. has already secured American re-make rights to the Akira and Death Note manga series and Ninja Scroll (Jubei Ninpucho) anime franchise, although none of these projects have yet approached filming.
The Bleach manga launched in 2001 and has since spawned an ongoing 260+ episode TV series, three feature films, two OVAs, a stage musical, and numerous video games.
I was surprised by Warner picking up Death Note, which revolves around the Japanese concept of “shinigami.” I guess they’re aiming at two for two with Bleach. I can envision a live action Bleach movie being pretty cool if it was handled well.
Source: Anime News Network
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I was hoping Kubo would make a comment on Twitter…
Could be cool… but a glaring problem persists here as would in most other anime adaptations, Ichigo is supposed to be 15 or 16-years-old, even though he frequently looks as if he were 24 or 25. Regardless of the worldview the manga/anime hopes to establish, when you bring something into anther medium, viewer awareness of the narrative juxtaposed to reality shifts… and sometimes dramatically.
An awful translation of his recent tweet:
There is fairly a talk ahead though it is a matter of the movie. However, anything cannot be said as understood from no the current remark of anything. Please wait for an official announcement. Please understand. This matter is not made remarks at all at the following.