New Line to Adapt Monster

New Line Cinema has acquired rights to produce an American live action film adaptation of Naoki Urasawa best selling mystery manga series Monster, currently being adapted as an anime television series in Japan. The project will be co-produced by Japanese publisher Shogakukan and American film production company Trilogy Entertainment, the studio behind the hit film Backdraft.

Monster is a psychological thriller about a young doctor who saves a little boy’s life only to find out a few years later that the boy is a brilliant killer. The doctor must then track down the young killer and solve a larger conspiracy.

Source: Reuters Newswire