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All You Need Is…Casting Rumors?

November 11th, 2010 by nickmamatas

Hollywood scuttlebutt is that Ryan Gosling will be offered the lead role in the movie version of All You Need Is KILL. Clearly, the film is going to be “American” rather than following the Japanese-international theme of Sakurazaka’s novel, but other than that, what do you think?

Speaking purely for myself as a human being and not an editor or employee of anyone…yeah, I think I would very much enjoy watching this guy die a dozen times in one movie.

The same article from Beyond Hollywood also talks about Zac Efron perhaps being offered the lead role in Akira, based on the first anime pretty much anyone my age ever saw subtitled rather than poorly dubbed. I was excited at Efron’s picture—maybe he’d be a good choice!

I mean, look:

He’s already got the haircut!

Tags: akira, beyond hollywood, movie, ryan gosling, zac efron
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Good news

August 24th, 2010 by nickmamatas

We sort of knew about this already, but it’s been confirmed now. From today’s Variety:

Warner Bros. has tapped Doug Liman to direct time-travel actioner “All You Need Is Kill,” produced by 3 Arts Entertainment.

The studio’s been developing “All You Need Is Kill,” based on the 2004 Japanese novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, since April when it bought Dante Harper’s adaptation. Producers are Erwin Stoff, Tom Lassally and Jason Hoffs with Hidemi Fukuhara exec producing.

Hey, I know two of those guys! Now that the director news is confirmed, we can expect other information to hit over the coming months: who will star, etc. if only Keanu Reeves was fifteen years younger…that’s what the copyeditor in the cubicle next to mine keeps saying, anyway! Anyway, you best pick up a copy of All You Need Is KILL so to better follow along with the wild ride to come. Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s follow-up Slum Online is worth checking out too!

In non-Haikasoru news, the nominees for the World Fantasy Awards have been announced and I am thrilled to see that the motion picture Ponyo has been nominated for the Special Award category! I edited The Art of Ponyo and will be at the World Fantasy Convention this October. I hope to bring home a statue for Mr. Miyazaki!

Tags: doug liman, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Keanu Reeves, Ponyo, world fantasy awards
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Harmony AND Happy Anniversary

July 20th, 2010 by nickmamatas

Harmony by Project Itoh releases today! As I mentioned last month when editorial copies arrived, I am especially excited about this book, which presses all my buttons—it’s a satire, near-future SF with a darkly comic tinge to it.

It’s also Haikasoru’s anniversary—our first two titles released a year ago tomorrow. So far we’ve put out eleven books, and I think we’ve done pretty well. All You Need Is KILL is on the production fast-track at Warner Bros, ZOO was nominated for the Shirley Jackson award, and we’ve found plenty of enthusiastic readers for science fiction in translation—something many observers said simply couldn’t be done. Here’s hoping there’ll be many more years, and many more readers, to come.

It’s my anniversary, but buy yourselves a present: I recommend Harmony.

Tags: Shirley Jackson awards, Warner Bros
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Doug Liman on All You Need Is KILL

July 16th, 2010 by nickmamatas

Happy Friday, everyone! It’s movie night in America, so that brings to mind All You Need Is KILL, now in development at Warner Bros as a major motion picture. Here’s director Doug Liman on the project:

All You Need is Kill is a project that I’m developing at Warner Brothers. It’s an amazing script. It’s a wholly original piece of writing. It delivers all of the wiz-bang satisfaction of a big Hollywood effects movie, but it does it in a completely original way. You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they’re original because you go, “Who would have even have thought of that?,” or, “Why would anyone ever want to go see that?”

So be sure to pick up the book, so you can scoff at your nerdo friends and say, “Oh, I’ve known about All You Need Is KILL for YEARS!”

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All You Need Is…Casting Rumors?

Good news

Harmony AND Happy Anniversary

Doug Liman on All You Need Is KILL