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Terra Formars Live-Action Film to Open in 2016
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The live-action film Yū Sasuga's science-fiction manga Terra Formars will open in Japan in 2016. Pre-production for the film took two years, and filming will begin in mid-May.
Prolific director Mogura no Uta) is helming the project. Miike said, "I'm hoping to prove that an awesome manga can spawn an awesome movie. Underestimate the movie, and you'll get burned!"
Future issues of Young Jump magazine will provide more information.
Tachibana and Sasuga launched the original Terra Formars manga in 2011, and Shueisha will publish the 12th volume on February 19. The manga has 10 million copies in circulation. releasing the manga in North America, and it describes the story:
In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries, but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined. ..After humanity's first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost, a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment. They are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated into giant, aggressive humanoids with one overriding goal: exterminate the humans! But this crew of explorers has each undergone the "Bugs Procedure, " terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human...
The television anime OVA) project adapts the Bugs 2 arc on discs bundled with the 10th and 11th manga volumes. The Annex 1 arc takes place 20 years after the Bugs 2 arc.
The original manga Satoshi Kimura's Terra Formars Gaiden Rain Hard.
The original manga nominated for Manga Taisho award in 2013.
Update: Takashi Miike did not direct the live-action Tokyo Tribe film. Thanks, Ronin0079.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
