Sony acquires Live-Action Blood: The Last Vampire's U.S. rights

[Roy Mustang]

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Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has acquired all North American rights to East Wing Holdings Corp. and SAJ's live-action film adaptation of Production I.G's Blood: The Last Vampire anime film. Samuel Goldwyn Films will release film in American theaters this summer. South Korea's Jeon Ji-hyun (under her English name, Gianna Jun) plays the main character Saya, a 16-year-old sword-wielding girl hunting down supernatural creatures. Japanese actress Koyuki plays her opponent Onigen. Sony has already launched the official North American website for the film with a trailer.

Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell films, Mobile Police Patlabor, Avalon) conceived the anime's original story, which Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of The East, Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit) turned into a screenplay for director Hiroyuki Kitakubo ( JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Robot Carnival's "A Tale of Two Robots," Roujin Z). Hong Kong's Ronny Yu adapted Kamiyama's script for live-action, and Chris Nahon directed the new version.

The live-action film will open in Japan on May 29 (under the title Last Blood), in the United Kingdom on June 12, and then in France on June 17. It will also open in Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and other countries in June. Samuel Goldwyn Films submitted the film to the Motion Picture Association of America for an R rating for “strong bloody stylized violence."

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[ChristianKitsune]

*D* Yaaaayyyyy

I hope this will be a good movie!

Thanks for the info, Roy! Super appreciated

[Roy Mustang]

The sad thing about all of this is, how long too took them.

As it shows in this thread back last year. XD

Live-action Blood reportedly to open in U.S. in March

I know that I posted a thread about the trailer at one point. From it, it looks like an okay movie. Its not at all like the anime, plus I believe that the movie was made in China.

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[ilikegir33]

Finally. It looks frickin' amazing, despite the fact that it's way different from the anime. Ireland's film classification office called it "Buffy on speed". And I've watched the trailer like 5 times already because it simply looks good. There's so much blood even Kitano or Miike would probably blush.

[Roy Mustang]

New US trailer for Blood: The Last Vampire

Trailer


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