Kazuyoshi Katayama to direct King of Thorn Movie

Kadokawa Pictures has revealed plans to develop an anime feature based on Yuji Iwahara’s science-fiction action manga King of Thorn. Kazuyoshi Katayama (Appleseed OVA, The Big O) will serve as director and co-screenwriter with Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Bastard!!, Yukikaze). Hidenori Matsubara (Ah! My Goddess, Gankutsuou) will provide character design while Kenji Andou (Brigadoon, Karas) will provide monster designs. The movie will tentatively premiere next year.

King of Thorn is the story of a teen girl placed in suspended animation along with 160 other selected people infected by a mysterious pandemic virus. They wake in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by man-eating monsters, and the survivors struggle to learn what has happened.

The original manga was published in Monthly Comic Beam magazine from 2002 to 2005. The complete series is distributed in English by Tokyopop.

Source: Anime News Network