{"id":29841,"date":"2012-10-12T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=29841"},"modified":"2012-10-12T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:07:26","slug":"live-action-gatchaman-movie-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/live-action-gatchaman-movie-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-Action Gatchaman Movie Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran Nikkatsu production studio will produce a live-action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatsunoko.co.jp\/works\/archive\/gatchaman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Science Ninja Team Gatchaman<\/a> motion picture for summer 2013 distribution by Toho. Toya Sato (live-action Grave of the Fireflies &#038; Kaiji movies) will direct a script written by Bloody Monday &#038; Gantz screenwriter Yusuke Watanabe. Takashi Yamazaki (Juvenile, Returner) will direct the film&#8217;s visual effects. Reportedly the movie will feature more CG cuts than the 2009 live-action Yatterman movie, which had 1,300 CG effects shots. Tori Matsuzaka (Kamen Rider Decade) will headline the movie, playing Ken. Tatsunoko&#8217;s seminal superhero anime premiered in 1972 and aired 105 TV episodes, later getting an anime feature film and an OVA series remake.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been a variety of promotional and unproduced Gatchaman adaptations:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q2LqTNVjrCE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xBP2WI6H6-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2012-10-11\/gatchaman-gets-live-action-film-starring-tori-matsuzaka\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran Nikkatsu production studio will produce a live-action Science Ninja Team Gatchaman motion picture for summer 2013 distribution by Toho. Toya Sato (live-action Grave of the Fireflies &#038; Kaiji movies) will direct a script written by Bloody Monday &#038; Gantz screenwriter Yusuke Watanabe. Takashi Yamazaki (Juvenile, Returner) will direct the film&#8217;s visual effects. Reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841","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=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29842,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions\/29842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}