Anchor Bay has taken U.S. and Canadian rights to KITE, the live-action adaptation of Yasuomi Umetsu’s popular Japanese anime. Samuel L. Jackson,, India Eisley and Callan McAuliffe star in the Ralph Ziman-directed film, which the distributor will release later this year.
KITE takes place in a
…a grim dystopia in which a crooked security force profits from the sexual trafficking of vulnerable young women. When one young woman’s (India Eisley) policeman father is killed by the regime, she sets out to find his killer, with a little help along the way from his former partner (Samuel L. Jackson).
If you missed the film’s first trailer, give it a look below; you can also peep a batch of clips right HERE.