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Arrow/DiabolikDVD to Release Live-Action Terra Formars Film in U.S., U.K.
posted on by Karen Ressler
Arrow Video announced on Friday that it will release the Terra Formars live-action film in the United Kingdom on Blu-ray Disc on April 1. Distributor DiabolikDVD will offer the same release in the United States "on or about April 2."
The release will include newly translated English subtitles, a feature-length documentary on the film's production, cast interviews, footage from the film's premiere, and outtakes. First printings will include a collector's booklet with new writing on the film by Tom Mes.
Arrow Video describes the film:
In the mid-21st century, humankind has been forced to look to colonising other planets as a means of combating overcrowding on Earth – their first stop, Mars. With a population of cockroaches having been introduced on Mars some 500 years prior to help prepare the way for human colonization, a manned mission sets out to the red planet with the aim of clearing away the bugs. Upon arrival, however, they discover that the roaches have evolved to huge, vicious creatures capable of wielding weapons.
The film adaptation of Kenichi Tachibana and Yū Sasuga's science-fiction manga opened in Japan in 2016. Takashi Miike (live-action films of Ichi the Killer, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Yatterman, As the Gods Will, Crows Zero, Mogura no Uta) directed the film, and Kazuki Nakashima (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill) wrote the screenplay. A live-action prequel, Terraformars: Aratanaru Kibō (Terraformars: A New Hope), premiered online the same month.
The film had English-subtitled screenings in Japan and Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival in 2016.
Sources: Arrow Video's Facebook page, DiabolikDVD
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