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Netflix is producing a live action ‘My Hero Academia’ movie
Netflix’s penchant for live-action manga remakes isn’t going away any time soon. The streaming service has revealed that it’s partnering with Legendary Entertainment on a live action My Hero Academia movie. Anime and manga adaptation veteran Shinsuke Sato (Alice in Borderland, Bleach) will both direct and executive produce, while Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s Joby Harold is writing the screenplay.
The manga and the anime it fostered both revolve around Deku, a boy who aches to join the UA High School and become a superhero despite missing the natural powers that most humans have by that point. Both the manga and the still-running anime offshoot have been successful, with the manga racking up over 65 million sales so far.
There’s no mention of casting or a release window for the Netflix project. Toho, which handles the anime, will distribute the movie to Japanese theatres. As IndieWireexplains, this comes four years after Legendary said a movie was in the works.
As with earlier adaptations, Netflix has multiple incentives to create a My Hero Academia title. It’s tapping into a large fanbase, sometimes for anime productions it already offers. This also gives it a way to reel in customers who would otherwise stick to anime-centric rivals like Crunchyroll, which recently lowered prices in some countries.
Whether or not it’ll be worth watching is another matter. Netflix doesn’t have the best track record for live action takes on manga and anime. The Cowboy Bebop series misunderstood its source material and generally struggled despite a top-tier cast and intriguing premise. There’s also the question of the format. A movie doesn’t allow as much room for story development as an episodic show, so My Hero Academia may have to rush through the narrative.
Transformers: Reactivate is a new online action game from the developers of Gears Tactics
Do you like robots that disguise themselves as other kinds of machinery? You might be happy to hear about the recent reveal of Transformers: Reactivate.
Revealed at The Game Awards earlier this week, Transformers: Reactivate is the latest title coming from Gears Tactics and Brink developer Splash Damage. You remember Brink, right? It had parkour! And guns! Anyway, Transformers: Reactivate is Splash Damage’s latest title, and is apparently an online action game for one to four players, unsurprisingly letting you play as some of the series’ notable characters.
As is par for the course for most games these days, the reveal trailer didn’t have any gameplay to show off, opting for a cinematic look at what we can expect from the title. The trailer gives us a first-person perspective of the one and only Bumblebee, with a bunch of humans working hard to repair him after he was seemingly taken down during some kind of robotic, alien invasion. It was also set to an incredibly dramatic version of Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi, which was just awful honestly, but hey, Transformers are cool, so it’s fun to see a new game.
Life is Strange developer’s next game is Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, a spectral action RPG
Original Life is Strange developer Dontnod has revealed its next game, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, a new action RPG.
If you’re only familiar with Dontnod as the developer of the not particularly action oriented Life is Strange series, this might be a bit of a surprise genre shift. But the developer is also behind 2018’s Vampyr, the success of which is noted in the game’s reveal trailer. In Banshiers, you play as “two proficient ghost hunters and lovers, faced with impossible choices and their dramatic consequences for the living… and the dead.”
The trailer, slightly off lip syncing aside, showed off some pretty cool looking ghost designs that you’ll likely face off against in your journey. According to the game’s description on Steam, you’ll play as both of the characters, Antea Duarte and Red mac Raith, the former being a ghost herself after being fatally wounded in a “disastrous last mission.”
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Dead Island 2’s showcase was mostly just a bad live action short film
Early in tonight’s Dead Island 2‘s showcase, a character in a live action segment makes a self-referential joke that live action trailers set unreasonable expectations for video games. Let me tell you now: that is not true. I’d wager the writing and acting will be more believable in the game than in this live action short.
At the showcase’s centre of those wasted 15 minutes was, at least, a new viscera-slick trailer of the actual Dead Island 2. So you can watch that below.