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Gantz Creator Didn't Know Who Was Directing the Hollywood Live-Action Adaptation
posted on by Kim Morrissy
On Twitter, Gantz manga creator Hiroya Oku shared the news last week that Julius Avery (live-action 2018 Overlord film, Son of a Gun) will direct Sony Pictures' planned live-action adaptation of Gantz. He then added: "This is my first time hearing it."
He clarified in a followup tweet that he agreed to the contract a long time ago, but he did not know that things were moving along.
Deadline reported last week that Temple Hill is producing the adaptation, and that the project is in early development with no start date set yet.
Deadline had previously reported in May 2020 that producer and scriptwriter Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) was "already in business with Sony Pictures adapting the graphic novel Gantz."
Guggenheim stated on Twitter in May 2020 regarding an adaptation of the manga, "I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Oku's Gantz manga ran from 2000 to 2013. The manga inspired a television anime, a CG anime film, two Japanese live-action films, and two spinoff manga. Dark Horse Comics released the manga in North America. Oku launched the ongoing GANTZ:E historical spinoff manga with artist Jin Kagetsu in January 2020.
Source: Hiroya Oku's Twitter account via Hachima Kikо̄
