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Warner Bros. Acquires Ninja Scroll

October 26, 2008

Alex Tse (Watchmen) will write Ninja Scroll, Warners Bros. Pictures' adaptation of the classic Japanese anime feature. Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way is producing along with Madhouse Pictures and Jungo Maruta.

"Ninja" is set in feudal Japan and follows a ninja who must fight eight demonic warriors in order to save Japan. The hard-R movie, released in 1993 in Japan, featured a villain with stone skin, a hunchback with a wasp nest as his hump and a woman whose snake tattoos come to life.

Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Mike Ireland are producing for Appian, which has a first-look deal with Warners.

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COMMENTS (40)

Posted by:

lolwhat

October 27, 2008

Dear Hollywood, please come up with new ideas for making movies. Stop making remakes, reboots, videogame movies, movies based of animes or movies based off foreign movies. Thanks

Posted by:

Ernesto

October 27, 2008

dicaprio must really love anime.

Posted by:

Tom Cruise

October 27, 2008

unless this has asian actors or has a different setting, I have to say wtf?

Posted by:

Zephyr

October 27, 2008

Do NOT hold back on this. I want a pure hardcore insanely violent film adaptation this film deserves.

Posted by:

Leon

October 27, 2008

God no! please not this movie!! The original is bad-ass and it needs to stay that way...

Posted by:

michael keaton overdrive

October 27, 2008

yeah, i gotta say thats weird. i love that movie, its one of the only anime's i own. but unless they use japanese actors, is it gonna make any sense at all? Hello, The Last Samurai part 2?

Posted by:

GuyverV

October 27, 2008

i think they should just let japanese people make their own anime adaptations. i just saw death note and it was pretty damn good.

Posted by:

Andi Worhal

October 27, 2008

Dear Lord, save us now. I too am tired of reboots, remakes and the like. For ****'s sake please humor us and give us new material...oh wait the brainless people in Hollywood are in one mind set, THE PAST!

Posted by:

motoko kusanagi

October 27, 2008

THis is promising, remember WB rarely ever bombs on sci-fi action. Look at your TOP 10 and ill be 50% will be warner titles.
The question is, CASTING!! its japan! Feudal japan, so im guessing there should be some Japanese people casted in this. I kNOW I KNOW, NS has a diverse cast. which makes it great for a flick. Im more afraid of how dreamworks with screw up Ghost in the shell

Posted by:

Micah

October 27, 2008

Nice. I love me some Ninja Scroll.