{"id":3625,"date":"2001-06-21T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-21T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/06\/21\/parasyte-movie-progressing\/"},"modified":"2001-06-21T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-21T14:23:00","slug":"parasyte-movie-progressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/parasyte-movie-progressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasyte Movie Progressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variety Magazine has reported that Academy Award nominated production designer Bo Welch has been contracted to direct the American live action adaptation of Hitosi Iwaaki&#8217;s graphic horror manga <a href=\"http:\/\/store.yahoo.com\/animenation\/books-graphic-novel-manga-parasyte.html\" target=\"_blank\">Parasyte<\/a>. Welch has received Oscar nods for his set design work on Men In Black, The Birdcage, and A Little Princess. He&#8217;s currently at work on Men In Black 2. The film will be produced by the Henson Company and Don Murphy&#8217;s Angryfilms.<\/p>\n<p>Iwaaki&#8217;s gruesome comic tells the story of any alien parasite that takes over young Mike&#8217;s left hand. Mike (originally named &#8220;Shin&#8221; in the Japanese version) and &#8220;Lefty&#8221; then form an uneasy alliance to save the rest of the world from an alien invasion. The <a href=\"http:\/\/store.yahoo.com\/animenation\/books-graphic-novel-manga-parasyte.html\" target=\"_blank\">manga<\/a>, which is still ongoing in Japan, is currently being translated into English by TokyoPop.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/columns\/index.cgi?column=comics2film\" target=\"_blank\">Comics2Film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety Magazine has reported that Academy Award nominated production designer Bo Welch has been contracted to direct the American live action adaptation of Hitosi Iwaaki&#8217;s graphic horror manga Parasyte. Welch has received Oscar nods for his set design work on Men In Black, The Birdcage, and A Little Princess. He&#8217;s currently at work on Men [&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-3625","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\/3625","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=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}