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Tom Cruise to Star in Film of Yukikaze Sci-Fi Novels

posted on by Egan Loo
Chōhei Kambayashi's military aviation story also inspired Gonzo anime

The entertainment news source Deadline reported on Monday that actor inspired a 2002-2005 video anime series from the studio Gonzo.

In Kambayashi's story, the elite Special Air Force wages a secret war against aliens that unsuccessfully invaded Earth through a dimensional portal over Antarctica 33 years ago. Second Lieutenant Rei Fukai flies lonely yet danger-fraught reconnaissance missions over the aliens' home Planet With his wingmate, the sentient Sylphid fighter.

All You Need Is Kill) are producing the film.

Kambayashi wrote two Yukikaze novels: 1984's original Hayakawa Publishing released the revised version under the name Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze Kai in 2002. The attendees of the Japan Science Fiction Convention gave Seiun Awards to both novels.

released the entire series on Blu-ray Disc in 2008.

Cruise has been Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith). Cruise's latest science-fiction film, Oblivion, opened with US$61 million overseas this past weekend.

Update: Hayakawa published a third novel, Unbroken Arrow: Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze, in 2009. Thanks, Panon


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