Alex Tse, the co-screenwriter on Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the Watchmen, has been signed to script Ninja Scroll, an adaptation of the incredibly successful Japanese anime movie (which also spawned a series, as is often the case) for Warner Brothers. According to the Hollywood Reporter Tse is also adapting Ray Bradbury’s Illustrated Man, although since that is a collection of short stories linked by artwork on a tattooed body (the titular Illustrated Man) it isn’t clear if it will be an adaptation of a few of the stories or all of them; I’d have thought it unlikely it was all, but who knows?
(promotional artwork for the 1990s Japanese anime of Ninja Scroll, (c) Oshiaki Kawajiri/Mad House)
Mon, Oct 27, 2008
Art and animation, Film, TV and radio