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New Live-Action Lupin III Film's 1st Trailer Streamed
posted on by Egan Loo
The official website for the new live-action Lupin the Third film began streaming a trailer on Friday. Much of the same footage TBS Television station in Japan earlier this week.
The story will follow Lupin and his partners in crime before they became a gang. They will infiltrate the high security of the Ark of Navarone, a gigantic fortress-like safe, to lay claim to the Crimson Heart of Cleopatra within. It is said that whoever possesses this treasure shall "unite the world."
The movie stars (from left to right in the images above) Thanayong Wongtrakul (The Man from Nowhere).
The first live-action adaptation of open on August 30. The movie began filming on October 3 and finished principal photography on December 26. The production shot in Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines.
The film is now in the middle of the final steps of editing, and the staff aims to complete post production and the film itself at the end of June. Ryuhei Kitamura (Azumi) is directing the film, and Mataichirō Yamamoto wrote the script.
[Via Hachima Kikō]
