{"id":13507,"date":"2008-09-19T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13507"},"modified":"2008-09-19T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:05:41","slug":"kurosawas-final-script-to-be-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/kurosawas-final-script-to-be-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurosawa&#8217;s Final Script to be Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reportedly, a multi-national production partnership will develop an animated feature film based on the late Oscar-winning director Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s final screenplay &#8220;The Mask of the Black Death.&#8221;  Kurosawa and co-writer Masato Ide developed the &#8220;Black Death&#8221; script as an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s 1842 short story &#8220;The Masque of the Red Death,&#8221; moving the original story&#8217;s setting from medeval Europe to early 20th century Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The animated film will be produced by Japanese companies Kurosawa Production and Lotus, American based companies Lexicon Film Entertainment &amp; Harbor Light Entertainment, and Singapore based Upside Down Entertainment for release in 2010, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Kurosawa&#8217;s birth.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-09-19\/director-akira-kurosawa-final-script-gets-anime-film\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reportedly, a multi-national production partnership will develop an animated feature film based on the late Oscar-winning director Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s final screenplay &#8220;The Mask of the Black Death.&#8221; Kurosawa and co-writer Masato Ide developed the &#8220;Black Death&#8221; script as an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s 1842 short story &#8220;The Masque of the Red Death,&#8221; moving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}