David Ellis to Direct Live-Action Kite Movie
Variety reports that Snakes on a Plane & Shark Night 3D director David R. Ellis has been contracted to direct a live-action Kite movie for Distant Horizon. An American adaptation of Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 OVA series was initially announced in 2003 when Rob Cohen (XXX, The Fast and the Furious) was set to direct. The production resurfaced in 2006 with Jorge and Javier Aguilera attached as directors.
Variety describes the American picture as, “a character-driven actioner centered on a young woman living in a failed state, post-financial collapse, where the corrupt security force profits on the trafficking of young women. When her father, a cop, is slain by someone dirty inside the force, she vows to track the murderer down with the help of her father’s ex-partner — never realizing he is, in fact, the man who had her father killed.”
Filming is tentatively scheduled for January 2012.
Source: Anime News Network
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Seriously? Of all of the anime they could exploit, they pick them one that was censored twice due to sexual content? Not that it matters, since the described plot has nothing to do with the anime. A country in a fiancial collapse? I wonder where they get their ideas…
Here we go again. I remember writing about this project heading in the live-action direction back in spring 2003… back then, anime and manga was still climbing rather substantially, and it giving the rights to option an anime title for live-action was the hot thing to do at the time.
Pocky: Well, in their defense, the sequel was fairly toned down from the source material, too. Plus, it’s not like anyone really gives a damn about Kite that much nowadays. But I just hope Media Blasters gets paid for it.