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009 RE:Cyborg Gets UK Cinema Release
Anime Limited has announced that it has acquired the theatrical rights to 009 RE:Cyborg, Kenji Kamiyama’s film adaptation of Shotaro Ishinomori’s classic sci-fi manga.
A podcast on the UK Anime News website includes an interview with Anime Limited president Andrew Partridge, who states his goal is to release the film in approximately 15 cinemas in the UK and Republic of Ireland for a period of two weeks. The film will be released in Japanese with English subtitles and will be available in 2D and 3D this spring.
The film was previously going to have a surprise premiere in Glasgow on 10 February, but there was a problem with the film’s delivery and it was replaced by Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters Per Second. As an apology for the last minute substitution, Partridge also stated in his interview that Anime Limited would release Makoto Shinkai’s previous film, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, which is currently unavailable in the UK.
009 RE:Cyborg is set in 2013 when skyscrapers in London, Moscow, Berlin, and New York are destroyed by simultaneous bombings. This act of indiscriminate terrorism by an unknown group with unknown motives sets off a world-wide panic. A group of nine cyborg fighters who used to rescue humanity from threats are called on again by their creator Dr. Gilmore to uncover the group and capture those responsible.
Upcoming 3D Anime Film 009 RE:CYBORG Gets Trailer
A full trailer of the upcoming anime film 009 RE:CYBORG has been released on the official You Tube channel. The trailer introduces the voices of Cyborg 002 (Daisuke Ono), 003 (Chiwa Saito), 004 (Toru Ohkawa), as well as the first glimpse of the cyborgs’ progenitor Dr. Gilmore.
The film will open in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea on 27 October.
The story is set in 2013 when skyscrapers in London, Moscow, Berlin, and New York are destroyed by simultaneous bombings. The indiscriminate terrorism by an unknown group with unknown motives, who set off a world-wide panic. A group of nine cyborg fighters who used to rescue humanity from threats are called on again by their creator Dr. Gilmore to uncover the group and capture those responsible.
Directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Eden of the East, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), the film will be released in 3D and is based on Shotaro Ishinomori’s classic sci-fi manga Cyborg 009.
009 Re:Cyborg Movie In Development
Director Kenji Kamiyama working on English script…
Cyborg 009, Shotaro Ishinomori’s classic manga about a group of nine humans who are turned into cyborgs by a secret organisation, is to be made into a movie.
Director Kenji Kamiyama (Eden Of The East, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Moribito: Guardian Of The Spirit) announced on the official PH9 Global Facebook page that he is currently working on an English script. The project, which is called 009 Re:Cyborg, will also be the director’s first animation to be fully filmed in 3D.
Kamiyama revealed on the Facebook site for his movies that he had already visited California to hold meetings about the film’s production.
However, the director didn’t make it clear if the trip was to discuss the script for 009 Re:Cyborg or if he was meeting representatives from Skywalker Sound, which is handling the soundtrack and effects for the film.
The California-based studio produced the sound for a number of other Production IG films, including The Sky Crawlers and the 2008 update of Ghost In The Shell.
The film will open in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea in October 27, with an international release date still to be announced.
The plot of the science fiction manga sees nine test subjects experimented on by the mysterious Black Ghost group. However, once they realise what has been done to them they rebel and turn on their captors in an attempt to prevent a catastrophic war.
Gatou Asou (Moribito: Guardian Of The Spirit), who will serve as character designer for 009 Re:Cyborg, is also drawing a new manga adaptation that is being serialised in Square Enix’s monthly Big Gangan magazine.