Warner Bros. Developing Live-Action "Bleach" Adaptation

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-23 07:18

  Warner Bros. has acquired live-action feature rights to Tite Kubo's manga and anime property "Bleach," which will be adapted by "Wrath of the Titans" scribe Dan Mazeau.
  Peter Segal ("Get Smart") will produce with an eye toward possibly directing.
  
  With more than 75 million print copies in circulation in Japan alone, "Bleach" follows the adventures of Ichigo, a teenager who can see ghosts. When his family is attacked by a Hollow -- a malevolent lost soul -- Ichigo inadvertently absorbs the power to hunt Hollows. He then dedicates his life to protecting the innocent and helping tortured souls find peace.
  
  Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing will also produce along with Masi Oka and Viz Prods., a subsidiary of Viz Media, the English-language publisher of "Bleach." Jason Hoffs will produce for Viz, while Branon Coluccio will exec produce. WB exec Jon Berg will oversee the project for the studio.
  
  Oka, who co-starred in Segal's "Get Smart," brought the project to Callahan Filmworks.
  
  "I've always been a huge fan of 'Bleach' and have great respect for its creator Kubo and the truly original and amazing world he has created in this manga," said Segal, whose "Get Smart" grossed more than $230 million worldwide for Warners in 2008.
  
  CAA reps Segal, Ewing and Callahan Filmworks, as well as Mazeau, who is also repped by Circle of Confusion and attorneys Shep Rosenman and Lee Rosenbaum of Katz, Golden & Rosenman. Oka is repped by UTA and Circle of Confusion.

  
  
  http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118050608
  
  oh gosh
  this is too funny
• Cynic wrote on 2012-02-23 07:23
  Oh lord..
• Arsik wrote on 2012-02-23 07:24
  I'd watch it if Johnny Yong Bosch plays Ichigo, at least that way it can be kinda true to the original. Though chances are, they're going to mess it up and the only way you can tell that it's Bleach is because of the clothes they wear. You know, like how the only way you could tell that Dragonball Evolution was related to Dragonball was because the guy that was supposedly playing Goku kinda wore Goku's gi at the end of the movie.
• Paul wrote on 2012-02-23 07:26
  Lmao. Thats all I have to say.
• Subete wrote on 2012-02-23 07:28

  Quote from Arsik;783712:

  I'd watch it if Johnny Yong Bosch plays Ichigo, at least that way it can be kinda true to the original. Though chances are, they're going to mess it up and the only way you can tell that it's Bleach is because of the clothes they wear. You know, like how the only way you could tell that Dragonball Evolution was related to Dragonball was because the guy that was supposedly playing Goku kinda wore Goku's gi at the end of the movie.

  
  That movie was so awfule...
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-02-23 07:29
  Not bothering with.
• TA wrote on 2012-02-23 07:33
  Dragon Ball Z. That's all I have to say.
  
  DO NOT WANT.
• paladin wrote on 2012-02-23 07:37
  *fortells future*
  warner bros released live action bleach movie was fail
  fans warned not to watch movie
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-02-23 07:42
  I want this for bad movie friday night (it's a thing I got going on with friends).
• Aiyas wrote on 2012-02-24 10:08
  Why are they doing this?
• Joker wrote on 2012-02-24 10:24
  THIS CAN ONLY END IN DISASTER........
• Helix wrote on 2012-02-28 07:06
  I hope they cancel this.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-02-28 07:15
  I hope they make it so that we have more things to laugh at while holding our heads in shame.
  
  Hollywoodftl.
• Kayate wrote on 2012-02-28 07:19
  If they are I want to see an asian play Ichigo I'll be damned if this thing gets whitewashed
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-28 07:22

  Quote from Kayate;789692:

  If they are I want to see an asian play Ichigo I'll be damned if this thing gets whitewashed

  
  
  [video=youtube;D8Im1UB-Uwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im1UB-Uwc[/video]
  If they can't have the characters look better than this, the movie's gonna bomb
  (even more than it already will)