Gans Turning Japanese, Signs On For Onimusha Adaptation
Dark Horizons picked up on IGN's news that Cristophe Gans (Silent Hill, Brotherhood of the Wolf) has officially been signed to helm the $70 million adaptation of Onimusha. I've played Genma Onimusha (Xbox) and Onimusha 2 (PS2) and, coming from those two, I love the series. At any rate, the movie is set in 16th century Japan and you play as a Samurai battling demons in order to (surprise) save the woman he loves. Cliche? A little bit, but the game is great...well, the first one strongly relies on Resident Evil-ish (the first one) style controls, so in that, it's quite a bit clunky. ...but the rest of it is fantastic.
Going back to the film, shooting will begin in China in the later part of this year. The release for the movie is set to take place in 2009. Unfortunately, no cast members have been announced, but several studios are reported to be eyeing this film. Best be on the lookout for this one, but what I really want is some more hawt Silent Hill action. I think a couple of us here at the castle would love to see a sequel under his direction.
Silent Hill helmer tackles another vidgame-to-film. [IGN Movies]
[via DarkHorizons]
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Posted to Video Games on 29 May 2007
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Gans gave an interview to the french website dvdrama.com, saying that Takeshi Kaneshiro IS in the movie, back to the same role than in the game. But no info about Jean Reno. The movie is an adaptation of the third game.
Been a while since you played the game?
It wasn't about saving some women you loved at all.
In the first one Samanosuke is just trying to save some princess. No indication whatsoever is given that he loves her.
In the second one Yubei is out to avenge his clan.
Back on topic, any non-Japanese spoken adaptation of Onimusha would seem odd to me. Even if the games themselves are English for most Western players. Having a whole setting and such in Japan (or partly if it is indeed a O3 adaptation) with Japanese people talking English is just weird.
Takeishi had BETTER be in this movie! I mean when you actually have a character based off of an actor why not get that actor to play said character in the film?!