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Terraformars Live-Action Film Reveals Poster
posted on by Kyle Hallmark
The staff of the live-action Terraformars film, based on Kenichi Tachibana and Yū Sasuga's popular science-fiction manga, revealed the film's poster on Monday. The poster shows the main cast wearing their spacesuit costumes, and its tagline reads "we will survive."
The film will open in Japan on April 29, during the Golden Week holidays. Takashi Miike (live-action films of Ichi the Killer, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Yatterman, As the Gods Will, Crows Zero, Mogura no Uta) is directing the film, and Kazuki Nakashima (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill) wrote the screenplay.
Tachibana and Sasuga launched the original Terraformars manga in 2011, and Shueisha will publish the 15th volume on November 19. The manga has 10 million copies in circulation. Viz Media is releasing the manga in North America, and it describes the story:
In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries, but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined...After humanity's first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost, a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment. They are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated into giant, aggressive humanoids with one overriding goal: exterminate the humans! But this crew of explorers has each undergone the "Bugs Procedure, " terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human...
Sources: Cinema Today, Comic Natalie
