Justin Lin directing Lone Wolf and Cub remake

[broganreynik]

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Apparently, because you can never have too many samurai revenge projects on your plate, Lin has also signed on to adapt genre landmark Lone Wolf and Cub. Deadline reports Kamala Films has acquired film rights to the Kazuo Koike-created 1970s Japanese manga Lone Wolf and Cub, attaching David & Janet Peoples (Blade Runner, Unforgiven and Twelve Monkeys) 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 executive producing.
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Awesome news about the screenwriters. I'm not exactly thrilled about who's directing it, but if it brings the originals to Blu-ray, I'm for it.

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[Tibor Lugosi]

Cool, I'm in! What are the other samurai revenge projects on Lin's plate?
Never mind, it's Dororo...

[Blu Ian]

But what about Fast Six?

[Darth Marcus]

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

'Seven' Writer Andrew Kevin Walker Tackling 'Lone Wolf and Cub' for Paramount (Exclusive)
October 17, 2017 10:20am PT by Aaron Couch, Borys Kit

Justin Lin is producing the adaptation of the acclaimed manga and intends to direct.

Paramount has landed the adaptation of the seminal manga Lone Wolf and Cub, and now has Andrew Kevin Walker on board to write the script.

Justin Lin, who directed several of the Fast and Furious movies, and his Perfect Storm banner are producing the project along with Marissa McMahon and Kamala Films. Joshua Long is also among the producers. Lin, who has been associated with Cub since around 2012, is also looking to direct the feature.

Lone Wolf and Cub was created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, who began publishing the manga series in Japan in 1970. The revenge story was epic in execution (it was close to 9,000 pages by the time it was done), acclaimed for its storytelling and its historical accuracy. It was influential in Japanese pop culture, spawning movies, a television series and even plays. The comics first began publishing in the U.S. in the late 1980s.

The story told of a shogun’s executioner named Itto Ogami, who starts on a path of revenge after his wife and the rest of his house is murdered, leaving only his infant son alive. Itto is joined on this quest by his son, Daigoro, who, as he grows up, is trained to be a fearsome warrior and joins him as a father-son team of assassins for hire as they travel the country and seek vengeance against the clan that killed their family.

The project has been at Paramount on-and-off since 2003 and at one point even had Darren Aronofsky attached to direct.

Walker rose to prominence in 1995 thanks to his script for David Fincher's acclaimed crime thriller Seven, which starred Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as two detectives hunting down a deranged killer who modeled his kills off of the seven deadly sins.

Walker went on to pen scripts for 8MM as well as Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, which starred Johnny Depp in the retelling of the American fable. He also penned 2010's remake of The Wolfman starring Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.

Walker's 2016 animated comedy Nerdland, starring Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt, drew upon his early days in Hollywood trying to make it as a screenwriter.

He is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Ziffren Brittenham.

[Bolo Seagull]

I love these movies about samurai and ronin etc, and I think Justin Lin is a decent action film director. But I just don't see this turning out well. Hollywood will likely want to make it into something bigger and faster paced than it was ever meant to be, and they'll end up bloating it out of proportion and losing its charm. Also, it requires a totally Japanese cast, something Hollywood will have trouble committing to.

[civiclx]

Originally Posted by Bolo Seagull

I love these movies about samurai and ronin etc, and I think Justin Lin is a decent action film director. But I just don't see this turning out well. Hollywood will likely want to make it into something bigger and faster paced than it was ever meant to be, and they'll end up bloating it out of proportion and losing its charm. Also, it requires a totally Japanese cast, something Hollywood will have trouble committing to.

So it can't star Keanu Reeves?

I had no idea the original post was so old. I saw the post about Fast Six and was like WTF lol

[TheLaughingMann]

Originally Posted by Bolo Seagull

I love these movies about samurai and ronin etc, and I think Justin Lin is a decent action film director. But I just don't see this turning out well. Hollywood will likely want to make it into something bigger and faster paced than it was ever meant to be, and they'll end up bloating it out of proportion and losing its charm. Also, it requires a totally Japanese cast, something Hollywood will have trouble committing to.

Isn't the set on Criterion adequate as it is?

[stvn1974]

Idris Elba for the main star or I am boycotting.

[Bolo Seagull]

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann

Isn't the set on Criterion adequate as it is?

I like the old series, I have the other AminEirgo release. But I have no problem with them making new ones. I'm a sucker for these wandering badass types of stories like Zatoichi and The Man With No Name.

[DJR662]

Actors of Japanese descent and R-rated please.

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Idris Elba for the main star or I am boycotting.

It already sounds like something to boycott, you are just making it sound even worse.

Unless you are kidding. Then it's okay.