Brad Pitt to Star in All You Need is Kill?

Genkina Hito

Genkina Hito

映画男！！！
News has emerged from <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/wb-brad-pitt-timelooping-video-gameinspired-all-kill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29">Slashfilm</a> that Warner Brothers has offered Brad Pitt the lead role in its live-action adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka&rsquo;s light novel, All You Need is Kill. The film already has a script written by Dante Harper and Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper, Fair Game) is attached as director.


<a title="All You Need is Kill by Mercury Rex, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/genkinahito/6194809928/"></a>

In the story a young soldier named Keiji is killed in the first day of an alien invasion. Then he wakes up alive once more, eighteen hours before he was killed. Soon he finds himself stuck in a loop being forced to relive the battle over and over. Soon he realises his predicament and tries to find a way to change it. Thanks go out to Raz112 for spotting this story!
Thanks to Viz Media the book is available in English for <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Need-Kill-Hiroshi-Sakurazaka/dp/1421527618/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317291600&sr=8-1">purchase</a> or download for Amazon's Kindle right now.
<a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/wb-brad-pitt-timelooping-video-gameinspired-all-kill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29">Source</a>
 
Genkina Hito said:
I'm very excited about the Spike Lee/Josh Brolin Old Boy remake.
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Wha?! Seriously, is this real? I really don't know what to make of this. On the one hand I'm a big Spike Lee fan. On the other, while I can't deny Old Boy was indeed an excellently made film, I also can't deny I wish I'd never seen it: that twist was just way too much for me, It's something I really didn't need in my mind.

I think I would probably only watch this if I got confirmation that Spike has altered that twist, I really don't need to through all that again. If I had that confirmed I would indeed be very excited by this too.
 
vashdaman said:
Genkina Hito said:
I'm very excited about the Spike Lee/Josh Brolin Old Boy remake.
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Wha?! Seriously, is this real? I really don't know what to make of this. On the one hand I'm a big Spike Lee fan. On the other, while I can't deny Old Boy was indeed an excellently made film, I also can't deny I wish I'd never seen it: that twist was just way too much for me, It's something I really didn't need in my mind.

I think I would probably only watch this if I got confirmation that Spike has altered that twist, I really don't need to through all that again. If I had that confirmed I would indeed be very excited by this too.
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To call the Spike Lee Oldboy a remake is misleading. The original film altered a great deal of the manga (that twist was new for the film, as was the motivation of the villain, in the manga it's less squicky, if wikipedia is to be believed) this Spike Lee one is supposed to be a more direct adaptation of the manga, and thus it's likely that the twist won't be there.

It's kind of funny in a way, because when (or if) it's released, hundreds of people are probably gonna complain it's unfaithful to the original (movie) when in fact it'll be truer to the original source (probably, the manga is supposed to be considerably less violent).
 
Oh, well that sounds great then! A spike lee manga adaptation is pretty much what my wet dreams are made of. Its also interesting that that twist wasn't in the manga, as thats probably the thing the film is most notorious for, also I probably would have read the manga by now if I'd known the film took so many creative liberties with it.
 
vashdaman said:
Oh, well that sounds great then! A spike lee manga adaptation is pretty much what my wet dreams are made of. Its also interesting that that twist wasn't in the manga, as thats probably the thing the film is most notorious for, also I probably would have read the manga by now if I'd known the film took so many creative liberties with it.
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It's kind of ironic that it's probably the most successful live-action manga adaptation, while also being one of the less faithful :p
 
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