News

Exclusive: Neon is gearing up to begin production in May on Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, with Takashi Miike set to direct. The thriller will star Shun Oguri, Lily James, and WWE star Liv Morgan (Gionna Daddio).

The film will be a U.S.-Japan co-production, produced by Jeremy Thomas for Recorded Picture Company, Sam Pressman for Pressman Film, Naoaki Kitajima for Nippon TV and Misako Saka for Olm. Executive producers include Tom Quinn, Yuzo Kuwahara, Tetsu Fujimura, Paula Paizes, Alainée Kent, Peter Watson, Ivan Kelava, Max Loeb and Mike Apgar. The deal was negotiated by Neon’s Sarah Colvin, VP of Acquisitions, and Paula Paizes from Pressman Film and Recorded Picture Company’s Ivan Kelava on behalf of the filmmakers.

Neon will release the film theatrically in North America and represent the international sales rights in Cannes this month.

You might not know that the Terra Formars manga actually started back in 2011. Written by Yū Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana, the manga became a seinen classic, with many fans and critics praising its story, unusual art, and the believability of the horror it depicted.

And while the series had a solid and more or less continuous run from 2011 until roughly 2019, it then went on a years-long hiatus before coming back in 2024, but after about a year of continuous publishing… well, you know the drill.

Yes, sadly, it has been confirmed that the Terra Formars manga is going on another hiatus and we have all the details.

Related: ‘Undead Unluck’ Final Manga Volumes to Include Five Epilogue Chapters

A lot of fans welcomed the return of Terra Formars about a year ago, a story we have reported on, and while the hype for the series never reached the same level as 10 years ago,...

It’s the tail end of the twenty-first century and Earth has nearly overstayed its welcome with dwindling resources and over-population. Scientists believe they can release the CO2 pockets underneath Mars’ surface and move the Red Planet from -50 degrees Celsius into a human-friendly temperature and atmosphere. So mankind sends rockets of moss and cockroaches to commence the process, a half-century passing before a team of colonists can finally journey forth. Everything should be ready for this hand-selected group under Ko Honda’s (Shun Oguri) supervision: go to Mars, kill the cockroaches, and return home with stories of our salvation via a new frontier. It sounds so simple and yet no one is prepared for what they’ll find because no one but Honda and the Japanese government know the truth.

That itself is a wild premise ripe for science fiction fun, but manga creators Yû Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana are hardly finished.

After a long build up the full trailer for Miike Takashi's big screen adaptation of popular manga and anime series Terra Formars has arrived with our first significant look at the scope of the world and the action at hand. And I would say there is reason for at least cautious optimism. Miike stalwarts Ito Hideaki (Lesson of the Evil, 2012), Yamada Takayuki (Thirteen Assassins, 2010) and Oguri Shin (Crows Zero, 2007), and Rurouni Kenshin star Takei Emi all star in the tale of humanity returning to colonize Mars hundreds of years after leaving moss and cockroaches there to begin the terraforming process and render the planet habitable. What they discover, however, is that the cockroaches have evolved into a race of hulking and ultraviolent aliens...

[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]...

The second season of Terraformars season 2 will be titled Terraformars Revenge and will be airing in April 2016. Michio Fukuda (Hyakko, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan: Demon Capital) will replace Hiroshi Hamasaki as director. In addition, Liden Films will be recieving some animation help in the show's sophmore outing from Tyo Animations. Kenichi Tachibana and Yū Sasuga began the Terraformars manga in Japan in 2011. The series will have sold 14 million copies as of November 19th, when the 15th volume goes on sale. The first season of the Terra Formars anime consisted of 13 episodes and covered the Annex 1 arc of the manga. A prequel Ova was released with the blu-ray/DVD of the first season which covered events 20 years prior to the series. There's also a live-action Terra Formars film from Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Crows) set to be released in Japan on...

Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has quickly become one of the more recognised names among genre fans around the world, with films such as Audition, Ichi the Killer, and Sukiyaki Western Django only some of the features he’s known for in his extensive filmography. While his last feature, Yakuza Apocalypse, made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Miike is already in the midst of production on his next film.

Titled Terra Formars, Miike takes solely on directing duties this time around, working from a screenplay by Kazuki Nakashima. The film itself is an adaptation of a manga by Ken’ichi Tachibana and Yû Sasuga, and stars Pacific Rim‘s Rinko Kikuchi and Arrow‘s Rila Fukushima alongside 13 Assassins‘ Takayuki Yamada and Emi Takei. While festival premiere dates or theatrical release dates have yet to be announced, the first trailer for the film has already been released. The trailer can be seen below.