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Warner Develops Live-Action Film of Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga
posted on by Egan Loo
The Variety entertainment trade news source is reporting on Wednesday that Warner Brothers licensed the live-action feature rights to Tite Kubo's manga and anime Bleach and is now developing the project. It has assigned Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans) to write a script. Peter Segal (Get Smart remake) is attached as a producer with a possibility of being the director as well.
The other producers include Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing, Masi Oka (Heroes, Get Smart), and Jason Hoffs at Viz Productions (a subsdiary of Bleach's North American publisher Viz Media). Branon Coluccio will be an executive producer.
Segal told Variety, "I've always been a huge fan of Bleach and have great respect for its creator Kubo-sensei and the truly original and amazing world he has created in this manga."
Oka, who acted in Heroes and Segal's Get Smart film, is a well-known manga fan. He drew inspiration from Dragon Ball for his Heroes character Hiro Nakamura, and he describes himself as a Naoki Urasawa and Shonen Jump "geek." Bleach runs in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan.
Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news tip.
[Via Comic Book Movie]
Update: More background information added.
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