warner bros gets rights to ninja scroll
not much info yet other then what the title says. i do know from source that its planned to be rated R. so warners is not gonna put to much coin into it. but with warners and there hands off policy (depending on the director/producer ofcourse) i'm sure this film will put kill bill to sleep. i also heard they're out to the wachowski's(hope they don't get it) yuen woo ping and a few others. the most far fetched but the one i secretly hope is true is that donnie yen might play jubei. my source is credible but you never know. hollywood is calling to donnie now, disney wants to use him alongside zhang jiyi in a live action mulan. they also want johnnie to to direct which is weird cause mulan is so not a johnnie to film. more as this develops
Johnny To directing Mulan?
That would work for me if it wasn't for Disney. While I enjoyed the Disney version, there's so much more to the Hua Mulan myth that could be exploited in the hands of talent like To. What ever became of Snow and the Seven?
Nice scuttlebutt, Doug.
of course its an NC-17 movie
but you know warners is not in the business of making movies that don't make money. so we gonna have to settle with an R rating and a un rated dvd, you'd be surprised how much you can get away with an R rating, as long as they don't curse up a storm we should get alot of blood and guts and nudity like the anime has, look at batman that movie was rated pg 13 and so was iron man you know why? no cursing, and the body count was low, although this is going to have a high body count and blood galore, if kill bill did it so will ninja scroll. small update seems that wachowski's are in the dog house with warner's after speed racer, so hopefully they won't get it, while i loved loved loved the matrix(part one and most of two) i'm just not toally sold on them, matrix three and now speed racer has put them in doubt. and now i hear tekashi miike is also on the short list, now if he directs this movie is going to be hands down f ucking amazing.
speaking of live action anime...
Ninja Scroll is up next.
This is one of my all time favorites. Lets hope its at least, O.K.