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Live-Action Attack on Titan Films' Full Teaser Reveals Opening Dates
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The film studio Attack on Titan films on Friday. The trailer and the project's website announced that the films will open on August 1 and September 19.
Narration: Over one hundred years ago... Half of humanity was eaten by the titans that suddenly appeared... The humanity that remained created a giant wall, and lived peacefully.
Text: Anticipated by the whole world!!
Text: Live-action film green-lit!
Mikasa: The world is cruel...
Eren: If we mess up, that's the end for humanity.
Title: Attack on Titan
Text: The attack begins on August 1!
Director confirmed in July that the project will span two films. Filming ended last August, and the films are now being edited for completion in mid-June.
Higuchi stated that, with the supervision of Attack on Titan manga creator Tomohiro Machiyama, who is also friends with Isayama, is working on the scripts together with Isayama and Watanabe.
Isayama's manga depicts the battles between humans and the giants who now rule the world outside humans' walled enclaves.
The film stars:
Haruma Miura as Eren
Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa
Kanata Hongō as Armin
Nanami Sakuraba as Sasha
Takahiro Miura as Jean
Hiroki Hasegawa as Shikishima
Ayame Misaki as Hiana
Pierre Taki as Souda
Jun Kunimura as Kubal
Shū Watanabe as Fukushi
Satoru Matsuo as Sannagi
Rina Takeda as Lil
The cast includes seven characters that are new to the film versions of the story. Sanspo reports that Hasegawa's character Shikishima holds the key to the film's story as "humanity's strongest man."
Hajime Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009.
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall light novel series.
Both released the series on home video last year.
