The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reports that the American film studio Warner Brothers "is in the process of securing the movie rights to" Tite Kubo's Bleach supernatural action manga series. Director Peter Segal (Get Smart, The Longest Yard, Anger Management) is lining himself up to produce, but not direct. The manga's North American publisher Viz Media and Segal's Callahan 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. Shueisha publishes the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan, and Studio Pierrot has been adapting the manga on television and in movie theaters since 2004. The Adult Swim programming block of America's Cartoon Network and Canada's YTV channel have been running the anime.

Warner Brothers has already acquired the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note supernatural suspense manga, which — like Bleach — is published by Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan and by Viz Media in North America. Along with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company, Warner Brothers is also developing adaptations of Yoshiaki Kawajiri and MADHOUSE's Ninja Scroll action anime film and Katsuhiro Otomo and Kodansha's Akira science-fiction manga. Viz set up an office in Hollywood in 2008 to promote Viz's properties to Hollywood interests.

source: animenewsnetwork

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BWAHAHAHA! Is this a joke?
Well, I'm betting on it crashing & burning. Coz we all know how well these forays into manga/games usually turn out.

Just look at the teasers King of Fighters movie. tsk tsk... 😔

aww i will post on your 1 Dr.Love 😀
i will be optimistic about the movie because everyone who doesn't watch anime will see how totally awesome the stuff is 😃 but will this just be a repeat of the tragedy of the american DBZ movie?!
i heard how totally messed-up the DBZ movie was ( couldn't bring myself to watch it - DBZ was my 1st love 😀 )
I hope they do a good job - make it epic like Lord of the Rings Trilogy :: 😃

I know that if this passes then its obviously going to be very very horrible but if they do pass it Kubo Tite does get credit for it (money) just cause they made it so I don't really care if they make it into a movie or not but if it was something else like Gundam or Evangelion all hell will break loose. Good thing sunrise always denies the offer.

Ehm, no, they've been working on an Evangelion hollywood remake for a while now.

source: animenewsnetwork

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Locking this one since you gotten beaten, Dr. Love

A just ruler amongst tyrants

Thats odd, April 1st is next week......

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