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Warner Brothers in Talks for Live-Action Bleach Film
posted on by Egan Loo
The Hollywood Reporter's blog says Get Smart's Peter Segal is negotiating
The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reports that the American film studio Warner Brothers "is in the process of securing the movie rights to" Tite Kubo's Bleach supernatural action manga series. Director Peter Segal (Get Smart, The Longest Yard, Anger Management) is lining himself up to produce but not direct. The manga's North American publisher Viz Media and Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing would also produce.
Warner Brothers has already acquired the rights to adapt and Katsuhiro Otomo and Kodansha's Akira science-fiction manga.
Update: More background information added.
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