{"id":17007,"date":"2009-07-22T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=17007"},"modified":"2009-07-22T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T17:03:32","slug":"ryuhei-kitamura-to-direct-magdalena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ryuhei-kitamura-to-direct-magdalena\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuhei Kitamura to Direct Magdalena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/magdalenatpb-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"magdalenatpb\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/magdalenatpb-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/magdalenatpb-302x450.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/magdalenatpb.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i00860fac3d23b30e5385f320c5001462\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> reveals that Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Midnight Meat Train) will direct an American film adaptation of Top Cow Productions&#8217; bad girl comic book series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcow.com\/Site\/comics_magdalena.html\" target=\"_blank\">Magdalena<\/a>. Geek goddess Gale Anne Hurd and Platinum Studios&#8217; Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will produce. Top Cow&#8217;s Marc Silvestri will co-executive produce. Holly Brix, who wrote the script for The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations, will write the screenplay. Jenna Dewan (Step Up) and Luke Goss (Hellboy II: The Golden Army) will star.<\/p>\n<p>Magdalena is the story of a present day descendant of Mary Magdalene who wields the Spear Of Destiny to defend the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><i>Say what you want about his films, I still like Ryuhei Kitamura movies.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Midnight Meat Train) will direct an American film adaptation of Top Cow Productions&#8217; bad girl comic book series Magdalena. Geek goddess Gale Anne Hurd and Platinum Studios&#8217; Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will produce. Top Cow&#8217;s Marc Silvestri will co-executive produce. Holly Brix, who wrote 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007","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=17007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17039,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions\/17039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}