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Japanese Manga Sword Art Online Being Adapted Into Live-Action TV Series


Perfectly in tune with the recent technological and commercial breakthroughs in the world of virtual reality (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PS VR, etc…), Skydance Television has acquired the global rights for a live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga Sword Art Online, which they are hoping to bring to the small screen.

"[It] follows[] a brilliant young beta tester Kirito and his group of friends when they are trapped — alongside 10,000 other people — in a next-generation virtual reality online role-playing game. The game is a world unto itself: filled with sword fighting, monsters, magic and mystery, where the stakes are life and death. Kirito and an ensemble of diverse characters must fight their way through this hostile environment while making lives for themselves in the fantastical world that is Sword Art Online."

Created by Kawahara Reki and published by Kadowawa Corp., SAO is a popular light novel series that has been adapted to multiple manga series, comics, anime, video game, and a movie, which will open in Japanese theaters in 2017.

Avatar executive producer and Shutter Island screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis will write and executive produce the adaptation alongside Skydance's David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross.

"At Skydance we are in the business of world-building and SAO is a massive pop-culture phenomenon from which we plan to launch a full-scale and wide-ranging set of live-action franchise extensions across our business verticals, beginning with television," Skydance Media CEO Ellison said. "We look forward to working alongside Laeta, Reki Kawahara and the teams at Kadowawa and Aniplex to build out a deeply immersive new universe of SAO in an authentic way that honors its well-established fan base around the globe."


"For years I have been inspired by the inventive and masterful storytelling of the SAO franchise," Kalogridis said. "I’m thrilled to get the opportunity to work with such talented partners to bring this cutting-edge yet timeless story to a new format at Skydance."

As a fan of both the manga and anime, it will be with interest that will be looking at the live-action adaptation of SAO, which couldn’t be more zeitgeist-y.

Kalogridis is currently writing and executive producing Skydance's upcoming Netflix drama Altered Carbon.

Source - THR
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