Warner Brothers to produce Bleach and Death Note movies?

[Dash]

Live action.

 

The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reports that the American film studio Warner Brothers "is in the process of securing the movie rights to" Tite Kubo's Bleach supernatural action manga series. Director Peter Segal (Get Smart, The Longest Yard, Anger Management) is lining himself up to produce, but not direct. The manga's North American publisher Viz Media and Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing would also produce the proposed project.

 

The manga follows a 15-year-old boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who becomes a Soul Reaper — a "Shinigami" or "God of Death" who protects humans from the "Hollow" spirits that prey on them. Shueisha publishes the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan, and Studio Pierrot has been adapting the manga on television

and in movie theaters since 2004. The Adult Swim programming block of America's Cartoon Network and Canada's YTV channel have been running the anime.

 

Warner Brothers has already acquired the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note supernatural suspense manga, which — like Bleach — is published by Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan and by Viz Media in North America. Along with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company, Warner Brothers is also developing adaptations of Yoshiaki Kawajiri and MADHOUSE's Ninja Scroll action anime film and Katsuhiro Otomo and Kodansha's Akira science-fiction manga. Viz set up an office in Hollywood in 2008 to promote Viz's properties to Hollywood interests.

 

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Oh God, Bleach would make a HORRIBLE live action movie, maybe just as bad as Dragonball. Death Note could actually work though but only if they can get a damn good director. Although the only problem with the movie may be the shinigamis.

Edited March 24, 2010 by Dash

[GamerGuy]

Hollywood has been pursuing a lot of anime and manga titles recently, but it doesn't mean that they'll get the green light to be made. A lot of different shows have been picked up by movie studios but are in limbo or dropped completely. Monster and Neon Genesis Evangelion were both slated for live action, but both of them have been in pre-pre-pre-production for quite a few years now. They could see the light of day, but it probably won't be any time soon.

 

Death Note could work well as live action, if done right. Bleach...not so much. Bleach is a very Japanese show, and would have to be reversion-ed quite a bit for an American audience.

[Sun Tzu]

I see Death Note working really well, not Bleach though. Real humans carrying around a sword the size of themself? Not happening

[The Artesticle]

Never watched the Bleach anime.

 

I watched Death Note though, it was sick. The storyline and plot actually has the potential to make a very interesting movie. I just hope whoever is directing it doesn't screw things up.

Edited March 24, 2010 by Artesticle