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Warner Brothers in Film Talks for Bleach Manga
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 Filmworks partner Michael Ewing would also produce the proposed project.
The manga follows a 15-year-old boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who becomes a Soul Reaper — a "Shinigami" or "God of Death" who protects humans from the "Hollow" spirits that prey on them. YTV channel have been running the anime.
Warner Brothers has already acquired the rights to set up an office in Hollywood in 2008 to promote Viz's properties to Hollywood interests.
Update: More background information added.
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