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Live-Action Terraformars Film Casts Kenshin's Takei, Yamapi & Changes Some Characters
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The live-action Terraformars announced 12 more cast on Monday. The movie adapts the Bugs 2 arc from the manga's first volume.
Clover's Saya) stars as the heroine Nanao Akita.
The non-Japanese team in the original manga have had their names and part of their characters changed. For example, the Thai character Thien is now Jin Mutō, as played by former NEWS band member Ashita no Joe).
The other cast include:
H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi) as Ichirō Hiruma
Street Fighter Alpha, Choy Lee Fut, Ninja 2: Shadow of a Tear) as God Lee
The Sky Crawlers) as Asuka Moriki, based on Victoria Wood
Crying Freeman, 1998 Godzilla, Unfair) as Keisuke Dōjima, based on Donatello K. Davis
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia) as Mina Ōbari, based on Zhang Ming-Ming
Ouran High School Host Club) as Sorae Ōsako, based on Jaina Eisenstein
Kenichi Takitō (Ryōmaden, Climber's High) as Shunji Tezuka, based on Tejas Viji
Princess Jellyfish) as Maria Renjō, based on Maria Viren
Rila Fukushima (The Wolverine, Arrow, Game of Thrones) as the new, original character Sakakibara
As previously announced, 39-year old actor Hideaki Itō (play the lead role of Shōkichi Komachi.
The film will finish production next February and open in theaters during next spring's Golden Week string of holidays.
Pre-production for the film took two years, and filming began in mid-May. Filming will then move in August to Iceland. It will be the first time that a Japanese film is shot on location there.
Prolific director Kill la Kill) wrote the screenplay.
Tachibana and Sasuga launched the original Terra Formars manga in 2011, and 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.
Similar to the Terraformars film's character changes, writer films replaced the manga character Levi with Shikishima, due to the perceived incongruity of a Japanese actor playing a character with a foreign name.
Sources: Comic Natalie, Eiga.com
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