Warner Bros.'
New Line division is in negotiations to acquire the rights to Osamu Tezuka's iconic
creation, Astro Boy, and produce a live-action variation of the same, shedding
some of its child-skewing elements for a four-quadrant adventure movie, i.e.
less PG and more PG-13.
Astro Boy is
a robot created by a scientist to mimic his dead son, who after going on an
adventure to find his true self and place in the world, ends up fighting evil.
Ranger 7
Films, Animal Logic Entertainment, and Tezuka Productions will produce the
project with San Andreas writers Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio penning the
script.
Created in
the early '50s, Astro Boy was a Japanese manga that ran for decades before
being adapted into several anime series in the '70s and '80s.
In 2009 a computer-animated
feature was released with Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel) voicing the character
but it flopped, grossing just under $40 million on a $65 million production
budget. The film also included the voice work of Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland,
Nicolas Cage, Eugene Levy, Charlize Theron, Alan Tudyk, Kristen Bell, Charlize
Theron, and David Alan Grier.
Source - THR
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