lone wolf and cub
from the director of some of my favorite movies ever like Supermarket Sweep and Requiem For a Dream, Darren Aronofsky will be the director/write of this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367983/
Now tell me, how bad is it gonna be?
Please tell me it isnt so Jethro!:eek:
ttt from over half a decade ago.
Justin Lin directing? Intriguing…
Kamala Flms Acquires ‘Lone Wolf And Cub’ With ‘Fast Five’s Justin Lin Attached
By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday March 27, 2012 @ 5:01pm EDT
EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Films has acquired film rights to the Kazuo Koike-created 1970s Japanese manga Lone Wolf and Cub, attaching David & Janet Peoples to write the script. Fast Five‘s Justin Lin had already been attached to direct. Kamala’s Marissa McMahon will produce with 1212 Entertainment’s Elizabeth Grave and Joshua Long, with Roberto Grande exec producing.
The original was set feudal Edo period, and chronicles the story of Ogami Itto, the Shogun’s elite executioner. In an attempt to take his position, the rival Yagyu clan falsely accuses Itto of a crime and murders his wife. Disgraced, Itto is forced to wander Japan with his three-year-old son Daigoro as an assassin for hire, earning the title “Lone Wolf and Cub.” Ultimately, Itto and Daigoro seek revenge on the Yagyu clan. Koike’s manga, published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics, is considered a seminal work.
The film marks the first collaboration between Kamala Films and 1212 Entertainment. Kamala is currently in development on Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde with Furst Films, and the screen adaptation of the Curtis Sittenfeld novel American Wife with Red Crown. 1212 is producing an adaptation of the Taito video game Space Invaders.
The scribes have storied credits including Blade Runner, Unforgiven and Twelve Monkeys, while Lin is working on Universal’s sixth installment of The Fast and the Furious. “I’ve long admired the Peoples and their enduring body of work,” Lin said. “They’re a wonderful match for Lone Wolf and Cub and I’m really looking forward to collaborating with them on this powerful, epic tale.” CAA reps the writers and Lin and the helmer’s also repped by Cinetic and Sloss Eckhouse LawCo.
More Linsanity??? That guy is everywhere.
ttt 4 2016!
Iconic Manga ‘Wolf and Cub’ Set for Live-Action Remake by SP International (EXCLUSIVE)
Patrick Frater
Asia Bureau Chief
Iconic Manga ‘Wolf and Cub’ SetCOURTESY OF KOIKE KAZUO GEKIGA SONJUKU
JUNE 27, 2016 | 08:31PM PT
Iconic Japanese comic book property “Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict” is to be made as a live action, English language movie by producer Steven Paul’s SP International Pictures.
The company acquired remake and sequel rights Koike Kazuo Gekiga Sonjuku, Inc., who produced the motion picture “Kozure Okami: Sono Chisaki Te Ni” in 1993. It plans a remake that will shoot from 2017. The “Lone Wolf and Cub” property first emerged in 1970 as a comic book written by Koike Kazuo and illustrated by Goseki Kojima. Their stories were subsequently adapted as six feature movies starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four stage plays and a TV series.
“Final Conflict” sees a noble samurai plotted against and framed in an assassination conspiracy the samurai disobeys his Shogun’s orders and becomes an assassin for hire. “I have been a huge fan of the property for many years and can’t tell you how excited I am to have the opportunity to embark on this journey,” Pau said in a statement.
Los Angeles-based Paul has become a major axis between Hollywood and Japan. He previously produced Marvel Comic’s “Ghost Rider 1 & 2” and Namco Bandai’s “Tekken 1 & 2.” He is currently producing a live action adaptation of the manga comic “Ghost In The Shell” starring Scarlett Johansson and Takeshi Kitano. Paramount Pictures distributing the feature film worldwide.
Paul’s “Ghost in the Shell” project has been criticized by some fans for racially inappropriate casting, notably with Johansson playing an originally Asian woman. Paul told Variety that “Final Conflict” will be shot with an essentially Japanese cast. Paul has recently struck production deals in both China and Thailand.
His related SP Releasing is a theatrical distributor releasing up to 10 movies per year and maintains a worldwide home entertainment deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This summer SP Releasing will be theatrically distributing “Running Wild” starring Sharon Stone, and releasing ‘The Dog Lover” with James Remar, Lea Thompson, Jayson Blair, Allison Paige and directed by Alex Ranarivelo.
They need to remake Hanzo the Razor. 
Sweet.
I hope they get a good swordsman for this and that they keep the originals “fight mode” instead of going 'wire-fu" or something like that.
I don’t think they can even begin to touch the story from the comics ( Yagyu clan VS Itto) so it appears they will go with the english version of the story from the movie Shogun Assassin.
ttt 4 2017!
Justin Lin…interesting. I hope he doesn’t default to digital blood. What made Shogun Assassin glorious was that blood wasn’t digital.
OCTOBER 17, 2017 10:20am PT by Aaron Couch, Borys Kit
‘Seven’ Writer Andrew Kevin Walker Tackling ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ for Paramount (Exclusive)
Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics
Justin Lin is producing the adaptation of the acclaimed manga and intends to direct.
Paramount has landed the adaptation of the seminal manga Lone Wolf and Cub, and now has Andrew Kevin Walker on board to write the script.
Justin Lin, who directed several of the Fast and Furious movies, and his Perfect Storm banner are producing the project along with Marissa McMahon and Kamala Films. Lin, who has been associated with Cub since around 2012, is also looking to direct the feature.
Lone Wolf and Cub was created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, who began publishing the manga series in Japan in 1970. The revenge story was epic in execution (it was close to 9,000 pages by the time it was done), acclaimed for its storytelling and its historical accuracy. It was influential in Japanese pop culture, spawning movies, a television series and even plays. The comics first began publishing in the US in the late 1980s.
The story told of a shogun’s executioner named Itto Ogami, who starts on a path of revenge after his wife and the rest of his house is murdered, leaving only his infant son alive. Itto is joined on this quest by his son, Daigoro, who, as he grows up, is trained to be a fearsome warrior and joins him as a father-son team of assassins for hire as they travel the country and seek vengeance against the clan that killed their family.
The project has been at Paramount on-and-off since 2003 and at one point even had Darren Aronofsky attached to direct.
Walker rose to prominence in 1995 thanks to his script for David Fincher’s acclaimed crime thriller Seven, which starred Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as two detectives hunting down a deranged killer who modeled his kills off of the seven deadly sins.
He went on to pen scripts for 8MM as well as Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, which starred Johnny Depp in the retelling of the American fable. He also penned 2010’s remake of The Wolfman that starred Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.
Walker’s 2016 animated comedy Nerdland, starring Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt, drew upon his early days in Hollywood trying to make it as a screenwriter.
He is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Ziffren Brittenham.
Lone Wolf And Cub
Lone Wolf & Cub Manga Creator Kazuo Koike Passes Away
posted on 2019-04-19 00:05 EDT by Crystalyn Hodgkins
82-year-old prolific storywriter passed away on Wednesday due to pneumonia
The Twitter account for prolific manga creator Kazuo Koike announced on Friday that he passed away from pneumonia on Wednesday. He was 82.
The Twitter post stated that he had already been hospitalized and was under medical care when he passed away. The post thanked everyone who loved Koike and his works throughout his life, and stated that as was his dying wish, his funeral service will be for relatives only.
On Wednesday, Koike posted on Twitter that he and Lupin III creator Monkey Punch were rivals 40 years ago in the Weekly Manga Action magazine when Lupin III and Koike’s Lone Wolf and Cub manga were running. Koike also said that he would miss him. Monkey Punch, whose real name is Kazuhiko Kat, passed away on April 11 at 81 years old, also from pneumonia. Koike (under his pen name Keigo Ozuka) and Monkey Punch collaborated as the writer and artist, respectively, on the Secretary Bird manga mini-series in Weekly Manga Action in September 1970.
Koike was born on May 8, 1936 in Akita prefecture. In addition to creating stories for manga, Koike wrote novels; scripts for movies, television, and stage plays; and also wrote song lyrics. In 1972 he founded Studio Ship, which was later renamed as Koike Shoin Corporation. He established the Koike Gekiga Sonjuku training school for budding manga creators in 1977, and also worked as an instructor at the Osaka University of Arts starting in 2000.
Koike is perhaps most well known for his and Goseki Kojima’s Lone Wolf and Cub samurai manga. First Comics premiered the manga in English in May 1987. The series was one of the first manga published in North America, and the first manga to be released in North America on a monthly schedule. Dark Horse Comics began releasing the series in 2000 as the first manga series to be published in North America straight to graphic novels that corresponded with the Japanese releases. In 2013, Dark Horse began releasing the series in omnibus format.
The manga inspired six feature movies starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four stage plays, and a television series. As of October 2017, Paramount had the rights to a separate English-language live-action film adaptation of the manga.
Some of Koike’s other manga include Samurai Executioner, Crying Freeman, Lady Snowblood, Mad Bull 34, Mad Bull 2000, and New Lone Wolf & Cub. Many of his manga inspired live-action and anime adaptations. He also worked on the Golgo 13 manga’s story along with others. Koike and Miki Fujita more recently ended their Koike Kazuo no Manga Juku manga in Akita Shoten’s Champion RED magazine in March 2018.
Sources: Kazuo Koike’s Twitter account, Comic Natalie
What a legendary artist. Today I mourn.
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