Despite its constant frustration with making a live-action movie out of Akira, Warner Bros. is still looking to turn other Manga and anime properties into projects. Harry Potter producer David Heyman jumped aboard the effort to make a new film adaptation of Attack On Titan in January of last year and now they've locked down a director in It's Andy Muschietti.
Created by Hajime Isayama in 2009, the Manga series sees giant aliens known as Titans arriving on Earth and nearly wiping humanity out, eating many of the survivors. Giant walls are constructed around the remaining human city to keep them out, and now, a hundred years later, an uneasy peace exists. Some people have grown up without even seeing a Titan in the flesh, but that all changes when one of the giant, muscled creatures breaches the outer wall, and humankind is forced back into battle against the powerful threat.
The heroes of the tale, at least in the early going, are Eren Yeager, his foster sister, Mikasa Ackerman, and their childhood friend Armin Arlert, who enlist in the armed forces after Eren's mother is one of those who falls victim to the Titans' appetites during the new breach. But there is more to the Titans' story than anyone initially realises... Several animated TV series and movies have been made and the current plan is to use story elements the Japanese film that appeared in two parts in 2015.
Muschietti has had huge success with It, and is in the middle of making the second part of the Stephen King horror adaptation. He'll segue from that to Titan, though it's early days for the new movie, which doesn't yet have a writer attached.
It: Chapter 2 will be with us on 6 September next year. Here's Everything You Need To Know so far.
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