Alexandre Aja is currently prepping up to unleash his new film Piranha 3D onto the world, and looks like a hall of a lot of fun! Now it looks like he's got his next film project lined up and ready to rock and roll! The film will be based on a Japanese manga and animated series called Cobra - The Space Pirate. I've never seen the animated series or read the manga, unfortunatley it wasn't really that big of a property here in America.
Aja's plans are to turn this saga into an epic tent pole-sized live action movie franchise. He is going to write the script with Gregory Levasseur. This will be Aja's first sci-fi fantasy film, since his first film, High Tension, in 2003 he's he's been directing horror films such as The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors and Piranha 3D.
Aja talked to Deadline about the new film project,...
Aja's plans are to turn this saga into an epic tent pole-sized live action movie franchise. He is going to write the script with Gregory Levasseur. This will be Aja's first sci-fi fantasy film, since his first film, High Tension, in 2003 he's he's been directing horror films such as The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors and Piranha 3D.
Aja talked to Deadline about the new film project,...
- 8/19/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
French director Alexandre Aja, who blasted onto the international horror scene in 2003 with High Tension, may be busy with his latest film, Piranha 3d (in theaters this weekend), but that doesn’t mean he isn’t looking forward. According to Deadline, Aja has just secured the rights to the Buichi Terasawa/Black Sheep Studio manga, Cobra-The Space Pirate.
If you’ve never heard of Cobra or his space adventures, you’re not alone. While the space-opera epic manga and TV series was immensely popular in Japan and all over Europe, it never quite found an audience here in the U.S.
“I grew up dreaming about Cobra,” Aja told Deadline. “My day was, finish school, run home and switch on the TV and I was hardly the only one. Kids did it in France, Italy, Spain, all over Western Europe. For many people there is Star Wars and nothing else,...
If you’ve never heard of Cobra or his space adventures, you’re not alone. While the space-opera epic manga and TV series was immensely popular in Japan and all over Europe, it never quite found an audience here in the U.S.
“I grew up dreaming about Cobra,” Aja told Deadline. “My day was, finish school, run home and switch on the TV and I was hardly the only one. Kids did it in France, Italy, Spain, all over Western Europe. For many people there is Star Wars and nothing else,...
- 8/19/2010
- by James Battaglia
- The Film Stage
What's next for Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja once he's done with his hungry, hungry fish? Quite possibly a feature film adaptation of cult manga / anime title Space Adventure Cobra. Though I've not been able to find this confirmed anywhere else, fan site Cobraworld is reporting that it is coming.
Originally a manga by Terasawa Buichi that ran from 1978 to 1984 before spawning an anime series and animated feature, this is pulpy stuff that still has a loyal following in parts of the world. Word is that Aja and Gregory Levasseur will co-direct the live action feature with Don Pennington providing the visual effects. For those unfamiliar, here's how Wikipedia describes the original manga:
Johnson, a worker for a futuristic trading company, got woken up on a Sunday morning by his robotic maid, Ben. Ben suggested that Johnson go to the Trip Movie Corporation (T.M. Company), a company that lets...
Originally a manga by Terasawa Buichi that ran from 1978 to 1984 before spawning an anime series and animated feature, this is pulpy stuff that still has a loyal following in parts of the world. Word is that Aja and Gregory Levasseur will co-direct the live action feature with Don Pennington providing the visual effects. For those unfamiliar, here's how Wikipedia describes the original manga:
Johnson, a worker for a futuristic trading company, got woken up on a Sunday morning by his robotic maid, Ben. Ben suggested that Johnson go to the Trip Movie Corporation (T.M. Company), a company that lets...
- 7/19/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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