But that’s where the choroegrapher/filmmaker is going with ARCANA, which he describes to Moviehole as “a unique blend of the graphic-novel backdrop – like BLADE RUNNER – and shot like 300, and has a little bit of WARRIORS mixed in there, with a little bit of martial arts, so it’s got a lot of crazy elements in there. It’s going to be really cool.“
Novelist/screenwriter/comic scribe John Ridley is currently at work on the script. Ridley most recently penned RED TAILS (George Lucas’ Tuskegee Airmen movie), but previously wrote Oliver Stone’s U-TURN (and “Stray Dogs”, the book from which it was adapted) and created UNDERCOVER BROTHER. Solid!
As to how the guy bringing competetive angst-filled musical teens to theaters is qualified to handle the stylized action, Tancharoen says: “I’m first a comic and video-game nerd… who got into dancing somehow.“