Lone Wolf & Cub Film Rights Acquired with Justin Lin

[craigdbfan]

Justin Lin's Lone Wolf & Cub

Kamala Films has acquired film rights to the Kazuo Koike-created 1970s Japanese manga Lone Wolf and Cub, attaching David & Janet Peoples to write the script. Fast Five‘s Justin Lin had already been attached to direct. Kamala’s Marissa McMahon will produce with 1212 Entertainment’s Elizabeth Grave and Joshua Long, with Roberto Grande exec producing.

The original was set feudal Edo period, and chronicles the story of Ogami Itto, the Shogun’s elite executioner. In an attempt to take his position, the rival Yagyu clan falsely accuses Itto of a crime and murders his wife. Disgraced, Itto is forced to wander Japan with his three-year-old son Daigoro as an assassin for hire, earning the title “Lone Wolf and Cub.” Ultimately, Itto and Daigoro seek revenge on the Yagyu clan. Koike’s manga, published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics, is considered a seminal work.


The film marks the first collaboration between Kamala Films and 1212 Entertainment. Kamala is currently in development on Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde with Furst Films, and the screen adaptation of the Curtis Sittenfeld novel American Wife with Red Crown. 1212 is producing an adaptation of the Taito video game Space Invaders.


The scribes have storied credits including Blade Runner, Unforgiven and Twelve Monkeys, while Lin is working on Universal’s sixth installment of The Fast and the Furious. “I’ve long admired the Peoples and their enduring body of work,” Lin said. “They’re a wonderful match for Lone Wolf and Cub and I’m really looking forward to collaborating with them on this powerful, epic tale.” CAA reps the writers and Lin and the helmer’s also repped by Cinetic and Sloss Eckhouse LawCo.

I seriously hope they give it their all. I like the writers and I actually think Justin Lin isn't a bad director so the potential is there.

I just hope they don't modernize it and set it in America. That would seriously be the last straw.

I'm cautiously optimistic.

[Wolfwood]

DiCaprio for Lone Wolf.

No, but really, It'd be interesting if this turns out to be an American film with an all Asian cast.

[TheComicbookKid]

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

DiCaprio for Lone Wolf.

No, but really, It'd be interesting if this turns out to be an American film with an all Asian cast.

was just going to say. Waiting for the white guy to be cast in .....

[terry78]

We'll see what they do. You kinda need Spielberg/Oliver Stone pull to get an all Asian cast around here.

[craigdbfan]

Not really. Carl Rinsch is doing it with 47 Ronin. Granted Keanu Reeves is the lead but the rest of the cast isn't only Asian but actually Japanese and they got to film a good portion of the film in Japan.

So it's possible he'll get an all Asian cast seeing as Justin Lin has actually turned in movies with great BO returns unlike Rinsch who got the cast based on Ridley Scott's apprenticeship credit alone.

[dude love]

Originally Posted by terry78

We'll see what they do. You kinda need Spielberg/Oliver Stone pull to get an all Asian cast around here.

Lin's pretty big sheeit after the last two F/F films.

The only Asian leading man that Hollywood would trust to carry the film I can think of is Jet Li. Of course there's no difference between Chinese and Japanese people in the eyes of our idiotic neighborhood studio executive.

[Asgard]

Should film in Japan using all Japanese cast. They could do a reimagining in an American setting but that would suck.

[Eddie Dean]

Originally Posted by Asgard

They could do a reimagining in an American setting but that would suck.

You mean Road to Perdition?

[The Morningstar]

I was just going to say they've already done an American version in Road to Perdition.

[lance421]

Originally Posted by terry78

We'll see what they do. You kinda need Spielberg/Oliver Stone pull to get an all Asian cast around here.

yes!!

[Sgt.Pepper]

Heard about the manga when Aronofsky was trying to get an adaptation off the ground. I'd rather have him helming the project but maybe Lin could surprise me.

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I enjoyed Fast Five way more than Black Swan.

[Sgt.Pepper]

To each his own. I for one would've be interested to see Aronofsky's take. Anyway, the screenwriters' credits has certainly convince me that they could tackle this material and add that with Lin's direction would certainly prove an interesting result.

[Raiden]

I seriously doubt the movie will be set in feudal Japan in the Edo period, or with an all-Asian cast. Most likely it will be Americanized and modernized to appeal to as big an audience as possible.

[Eddie Dean]

Nicolas Cage is Lone Wolf
Amanda Seyfried is Cub

in Justin Lin's
WOLF

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Originally Posted by Raiden

I seriously doubt the movie will be set in feudal Japan in the Edo period, or with an all-Asian cast. Most likely it will be Americanized and modernized to appeal to as big an audience as possible.

Agreed.

[Asgard]

Originally Posted by Eddie Dean

You mean Road to Perdition?

Wow, I saw the movie but I never thought to connect it with Lone Wolf and Cub.

So they already have an American reimagining of the story. Time to bring the original to the big screen...again.

I wonder if theyre going to use the Lone Wolf 2100 as a source.

[TheVileOne]

Darren Aronofsky wanted to do it as a western for his version.

[Project862006]

WOW just looked the screen writers this has huge potential now

[Evil Twin]

Assuming it's not updated in setting, I could see Ken Watanabe being a fairly realistic choice for the lead.

[terry78]

I'm thinking if they do this as a period piece in Japan, they'll do it with American/British/Canadian Asian actors and have them just speak English.