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Picture by way of VIZ Media’s Junji Ito page and new launch Tombs: Junji Ito Story Assortment

The horror manga of Junji Ito has graced the display in many various methods, from live-action movies like Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki to the newest anime try, Junji Ito Maniac: Tales of the Macabre, all to wildly various levels of success. Now one other one in every of his tales, Bloodsucking Darkness, is on the brink of make the leap to a live-action function movie courtesy of Fangoria Studios and The Haunting of Hill Home author Jeff Howard.

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In keeping with the preliminary announcement, that is simply the primary of three tasks Fangoria Studios is aiming to adapt from the Smashed: Junji Ito Story Assortment manga, which VIZ Media printed in English on April 16, 2019.

Along with writing, Howard will function one of many govt producers for Bloodsucking Darkness, which does not have a director on the time of this writing. Different producers embody Junji Ito himself; Fangoria Studios’ Tara Ansley, Armen Aghaeian and Abhi Goel; and Amuse Group USA’s Yasu Kutami and Tsubasa Yamaguchi. Phil Wurtzel of Friel Movies will govt produce, as will Ryan Lewis and Joe Riley of Zero Gravity Administration and Kevin Nicklaus.

This is what Junji Ito needed to say concerning the announcement:

“Fangoria Studios goes to adapt my manga! I’m so excited to see the way it will end up. I hope I get to see the trailer in my goals tonight.”

Jeff Howard shared the next remark:

“Once I discovered a stay motion Junji Ito adaptation was going to occur, I chased after it with every thing I had, as a result of I simply couldn’t stay with anybody else getting there earlier than me. The mix of worry and emotions is the place I all the time need to be.”

VIZ describes Smashed: Junji Ito Story Assortment like so

Strive to not be observed whenever you eat the key nectar, in any other case you’ll get smashed… What horrific occasions occurred to create the earthbound—individuals tied to a sure place for the remainder of their brief lives? Then, a wierd haunted home involves city, however nobody expects it to result in an actual hell… Welcome to Junji Ito’s world, a world with no escape from countless nightmares.

Supply: Variety

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Joseph Luster is the Video games and Net editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You possibly can learn his comics at subhumanzoids. Comply with him on Twitter @Moldilox.