Well, this is certainly an unusual pairing of material and creative talent.
Fields Corporation and All Nippon Entertainment Works announced today that they will partner with renowned filmmakers Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz
(THE LAST SAMURAI, BLOOD DIAMOND) and their Bedford Falls Company to create a live action English-language film based on the popular Japanese manga SOUL ReVIVER.
SOUL ReVIVER is a supernatural action series created by Tohru Fujisawa and Manabu Akishige and featured in HERO’S, a monthly Japanese comic magazine.
The “ReVivers” in the title have the ability to move between the worlds of the living and the dead, in order to bring certain people back whose mission on earth was not complete.
The Bedford Falls Company, Fields Corporation and ANEW will produce jointly, Herskovitz and Zwick will write the screenplay, and Zwick will direct.
“ Many of our films take you to a different time or place,” said Herskovitz. “In ‘SOUL ReVIVER ’ I’ m excited by the idea of exploring a vastly different world existing in the same space as our own. ”
Zwick added, “Japanese cinema has always been a touchstone for me. I’m excited to extend that relationship to this new and vital part of Japanese culture.”
