 A Hollywood live-action film adaptation of ONE and Yusuke Murata's One Punch-Man manga series is being developed by Sony, according to a report by entertainment news outlet Variety on Tuesday.Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg and film producer Jeff Pinkner—known for writing Venom and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle—are penning the live-action film at Sony Pictures. Avi Arad (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and Ari Arad (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) of Arad Productions are producing the film. Synopsis After rigorously training for three years, the ordinary Saitama has gained immense strength which allows him to take out anyone and anything with just one punch. He decides to put his new skill to good use by becoming a hero. However, he quickly becomes bored with easily defeating monsters, and wants someone to give him a challenge to bring back the spark of being a hero. Upon bearing witness to Saitama's amazing power, Genos, a cyborg, is determined to become Saitama's apprentice. During this time, Saitama realizes he is neither getting the recognition that he deserves nor known by the people due to him not being a part of the Hero Association. Wanting to boost his reputation, Saitama decides to have Genos register with him, in exchange for taking him in as a pupil. Together, the two begin working their way up toward becoming true heroes, hoping to find strong enemies and earn respect in the process. [Written by MAL Rewrite] ONE originally launched One Punch-Man as a webcomic in July 2009. Yusuke Murata (Eyeshield 21) began redrawing the action superhero manga on the Tonari no Young Jump website in June 2012. Shueisha published the 21st volume on December 4 last year. One Punch-Man has a cumulative 20 million copies of its compiled volumes in circulation. Madhouse adapted the manga into a 12-episode television anime in Fall 2015. Daisuki, Hulu, and VIZ Media's Neon Alley platform streamed the anime with subtitles as it aired in Japan. Adult Swim's Toonami programming block debuted the show with an English dub in July 2016. VIZ Media released the anime series on home video in North America in April 2017. A second season produced by animation studio J.C.Staff premiered in 12 episodes in Spring 2019. Crunchyroll and Hulu simulcast the anime in Europe and North America, respectively. Toonami aired the second season with an English dub in October 2019. VIZ Media began serializing One Punch-Man in English in its Shounen Jump Alpha digital anthology in January 2013 and currently simulpublishes the manga on its new Shounen Jump platform with the Japanese release. The 19th volume shipped on March 3. The manga has also been published in multiple foreign languages. Source: Variety |
VindstotApr 21, 2020 10:09 PM
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| Damn so it's finally happening Hope this turns out well |
| Im curious to see who would take up the mantle of Saitama |
"Perfection is perception. For me, humanity's imperfections is what makes it perfect"  |
| That's literally crazy catch me in that theater the DAY it comes out www |
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| Has the potential to be as great as the first season but it'll really come down to how much care (+money) goes into this, I suppose. Should at least be watch-able though so I'll give this a go with minimal expectations when and if it comes to theaters at my place. |
#Anime4Life be my Life Motto! #PrayForKyoAni  |
| lol hopefully its a success and change the bad image of "anime to hollywood movies" i want to see who will act as Fubuki and even Tatsumaki and Psykos |
| They better cast Johnny Sins as Saitama, or I'm not even going to acknowledge this adaptation. |
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| This is pretty good, considering OPM is one of the series that could work well in live action with today's all high budget and huge CGI levels. Looking forward to more of this def. |
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| With the Superhero craze going on. I see this actually working if it is done right. |
| They better cast Dwayne Johnson as Saitama in this. |
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| seriously?! it's actually happening? oh lord i can't wait. hope its better than that live action dragonball movie LMAOO |
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." |
| I almost made this post 5 minutes after I read the news. Why even announce something like this when it's in ore-production? You're not even going to be allowed to work on it, like, what? What is the point? That being said, Venom was trash and should have not been PG-13 audience. It literally ruined that movie. OPM however could skate by, let's see what this guy got. |
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| Can't wait for it to be stuck in development hell. |
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Theo1899 said: Right? That's what I'm saying. Premature in announcing this.Can't wait for it to be stuck in development hell. |
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| Hollywood doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to these live-action adaptations, let's hope this can be one gem. I have low expectations but I want to remain at least cautiously optimistic. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. |
| We'll have to see the actual staff behind this. OPM is reliant on it's humor, a humor that doesn't actually translate well outside of the anime medium, and definitely doesn't work when westernized (like the reliance on facial expressions and reactions over gags). If they get someone to alter the humor enough to still remain OPM-esque while getting rid of that pesky adaptation barrier I could see this being a fun enough afternoon waster. Who knows, maybe instead of the shit show that was Ghost in the Shell (2017) we'll get something as watchable as Alita, which was still inferior to the source material but still a pretty fun movie. That's if it even gets made, wasn't there supposed to be an HBO adaptation of Monster by Guillermo del Toro? The fuck happened to that? |
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deg said: lol hopefully its a success and change the bad image of "anime to hollywood movies" i want to see who will act as Fubuki and even Tatsumaki and Psykos The Gunmm adaptation was actually good. |
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MichaelJackson said: deg said: lol hopefully its a success and change the bad image of "anime to hollywood movies" i want to see who will act as Fubuki and even Tatsumaki and Psykos The Gunmm adaptation was actually good. ye so is Edge of Tomorrow (one of my favorites movie) but they are like outliers or exception to the rule for now |
| If the remake's gonna take place in the US, will the protagonist be called New Jersey aka america's saitama? |
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| Prepare for disaster adaptation from Hamerica. |
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FireRifle64 said: Im curious to see who would take up the mantle of Saitama Why did I think as soon as u said that I thought Vin Diesel XD Icebreaker93 said: Prepare for disaster adaptation from Hamerica. And them utterly not get it's a parody of superheroes and make it about the greatness of superheroes instead... |
LegendAquaApr 22, 2020 3:34 AM
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FireRifle64 said: Im curious to see who would take up the mantle of Saitama  tbh i'd rather see a porn parody than hollywood movie adaptation |
| Sounds like complete garbage in the making. Putting aside that production team already sounds awful with crap they made, the idea of making live action movie of something that mostly relies on visuals that can be achieved only as anime sounds like Dragon Ball all over again. We already saw what happened when second season got noticeable visual downgrade... Imagine it being 100 times worse. Oh well, always nice to see Scumwood bleed out money. Maybe someone at some point will realize it's better to make Pacific Rim 2. For real this time... |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| Get ready for a shit ton of White Americans to have Japanese names again..... |
| im not expecting anything much out of this if i do ill be heavily disappointed |
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| wtf. this is going to be a shitfest. |
| Calling it now. Saitama is going to be played by The Rock. |
Reinhard said: Too old tbh. Gotta be someone younger. It should be an actual japanese person but god forbid fucking hollywood stopped being racist for once.Calling it now. Saitama is going to be played by The Rock. |
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Statham playing a comedic superhero in his usual accent could actually save this adaptation. |
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| Surely Hollywood can't fuck this one up, right? |
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| ohhhhhhhhhhhhh boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy This is totally a good thing gais and is not a bad idea in the slightest. |
  ♡ Harder Daddy ♡ |
| The real question is, when they will produce? I'm more hyped with SnK's Hollywood production, but until now, still no news on progressing.. Now adding more OPM's Hollywood project... |
| Hollywood already have plenty of superheroes. It's pretty easy for them do and make Saitama a white guy. |
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FireRifle64 said: Im curious to see who would take up the mantle of Saitama   10/10 Saitamas, yes. |
operationvalkyri said: Hopefully fans wouldn't want to cry in a corner like they did with s2. S2 is fucking horrible, there is nothing to defend about it. -------------------------------------------------- So, the good part about sony is that the CG is going to be good. The bad part is that they are gonna americanize the shit out of the manga, and god knows who is going to be saitama. Imagine fucking Johnny Sins as Saitama, lmao he looks perfect for the role. |
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