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21 March 2013 - Tohokushinsha Film Corporation Announces Live Action Patlabor Project For 2014
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2013 has been a bit of strange one for so far for Patlabor news. You may remember back on 17 September 2012 at a Nico Nico Live talk show event, Studio Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki asked Mamoru Oshii if Patlabor live action movie was in the works after apparently hearing a rumour from Production I.G producer Tomohiko Ishii. Oshii didn't really confirm or deny it was happening, but with the announcement of Oshii's live action project "The Last Druid: Garm Wars", I dismissed the Patlabor live action movie rumours completely. I was completely wrong. Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC) have announced at first day of Tokyo International Anime Fair that they will be launching a Patlabor live action project in 2014. A website entitled patlabor-nextgeneration.com has been set up, but currently only shows a splash page. Omnibus Japan is co-producing the feature. No director or screen writer has been mentioned nor is there any information that any members of Headgear will be involved.
Back in September 2012, Masami Yuuki denied any knowledge of the project, and surprisingly said that he wished people would not make "political moves like that". In 1998 Oshii created a two minute live action Patlabor pilot film (it was created in tandem with the two pilot films, one anime, one live action, for “The Record of Garm War”). At the time it was never clear why Patlabor pilot film was produced as no live action feature what ever announced. Prior to that, in 1997, "Brotherhood of the Wolf" and "Silent Hill" director Christophe Gans stated he was going to make a live action Patlabor film, however the project was shelved due to budgetary concerns. This new announcement from TFC is very intriguing, and though I really have a lot of doubts considering the poor quality of the majority of Japanese live action adaptations of manga and anime, I am looking forward to finished film. |
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