I.G Confirms License of Jin-Roh's Live-Action Rights

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Production I.G Vice-President Maki Terashima-Furuta acknowledged at her company's Anime Expo panel on Sunday that "somebody has the live-action rights, and somebody was planning to make a live-action Jin-Roh, but at the moment, I have no comment." Terashima-Furuta was responding to a question about whether more works will be made in the Kerberos saga, a multimedia franchise developed by award-winning creator Mamoru Oshii (Mobile Police Patlabor, Blood: The Last Vampire, Avalon, Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai). The Kerberos name refers to a fictional paramilitary group that Oshii has portrayed in radio dramas, live-action films, novels, manga, and the Jin-Roh anime film.

Bandai Entertainment and Viz Media collaborated on the North American release of Jin-Roh in movie theaters and on DVD. Set in a riot-torn alternate-world version of 1950s Tokyo, the film's story follows a special operations police officer who is haunted by the memories of a girl. Hiroyuki Okiura directed off a script that Oshii wrote.
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5 comments // I.G Confirms License of Jin-Roh's Live-Action Rights

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    Yay lets hope they do it justice. It was a very subtle, minimalistic movie in terms of speech. But i think it was an anime masterpiece.

    current89
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    It's really odd that I.G. would move ahead on licensing it when Oshii has been extremely protective on the Kereberos Corps characters.

    jlichman
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    Psh this is going to suck like . . . Transformers sucked, like Avatar: The Last Air Bender will suck, like G.I. Joe will suck, like Cowboy Bebop will suck, like Akira will suck, like the Street Fighters sucked, like Dragon Ball Evolution sucked . . . help me out here, what other things were turned into live action movies that sucked.

    jeckersly316
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    i have my doubts on it translating well and being as good as the anime.

    naty_forty
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    The Kereberos saga has hade several live action adaptations. In fact they all came before.

    ocanada
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