{"id":13706,"date":"2008-10-27T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T15:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2008-10-27T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T15:53:58","slug":"warner-acquires-live-action-ninja-scroll-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/warner-acquires-live-action-ninja-scroll-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Acquires Live Action Ninja Scroll Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variety Magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117994681.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio&#8217;s film production company Appian Way have acquired the rights to film a live action Ninja Scroll (Jubei Ninpucho) motion picture from Tokyo based anime studio Madhouse. Watchmen screenwriter Alex Tse will write the script for the American film. Madhouse and Appian Way&#8217;s Jennifer Davisson Killoran &amp; Mike Ireland will co-produce.<\/p>\n<p>This past February, Warner Bros. and Appian Way acquired the rights to produce a live action film franchise adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s Akira manga series.<\/p>\n<p>Threshold Entertainment initially acquired the rights to produce a live action Ninja Scroll film in 2002, but no production was ever mounted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-10-26\/warner-brothers-to-produce-live-action-ninja-scroll\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety Magazine reports that Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio&#8217;s film production company Appian Way have acquired the rights to film a live action Ninja Scroll (Jubei Ninpucho) motion picture from Tokyo based anime studio Madhouse. Watchmen screenwriter Alex Tse will write the script for the American film. Madhouse and Appian Way&#8217;s Jennifer Davisson Killoran &amp; [&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-13706","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\/13706","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=13706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}