Western Live-Action Golgo Movies On the Way

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Film rights for Golgo 13 acquired by Davis Films

From twitch film:

'Toronto - September 10, 2011: Samuel Hadida announced today that his company, Davis Films, has acquired film rights from Leed Publishing Co. Ltd. to the iconic Japanese cult classic Golgo 13, the longest-running manga (now in publication over forty years), written and illustrated by manga master Takao Saito.'

They co-produced Good Night, and Good Luck, but are also the producers of the Resident Evil films and the live action Crying Freeman movie:

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0032081/

Source: http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/09/davi ... lgo-13.php
 
Yeah, I saw this mentioned on ANN the other day. I'm not holding my breath; so many other titles have been optioned for a live-action adaptation and gone no further that I feel it best just to file them under "pics or it ain't happening".

In fairness to them though, I do remember the Crying Freeman film being okay as these things go.
 
News emerged at the Toronto International Film Festival that the production company Davis Film, the studio behind the movie adaptations of Crying Freeman, Silent Hill, and the Resident Evil series, has announced it has picked up the film rights for Takao Saito’s hard-boiled and violent assassin manga Golgo 13 from LEED Publishing.

Golgo 13’s story focusses on an elite assassin named Duke Togo who is without peer in his profession. It is one of the longest-running manga sagas ever, debuting in 1968 in Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine and still being serialized to this day. This is not the first adaptation of the story as there are two live-action films, one starring Ken Takakura in 1973 and another starring Sonny Chiba in 1977 as well as multiple anime adaptattions including a series and movie, the latter that was broadcast in the UK.


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This is exactly the kind of thing that could work well as a live-action movie. Things like this, Gunsmith Cats, Black Lagoon etc should be made into movies rather than things like Akira, or dragonball. Golgo is basically a darker more adult bond movie, no reason it couldn't be pulled off well.

hell, if it does happen it can't be any worse than the 80's movie

*ducks*
 
Golgo is basically a darker more adult bond movie
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Its a completely insane, somewhat unhinged and partially demented Bond movie. Theres just no way I can ever see this translating into a decent American movie....well not unless Tarantino makes it.
 
Y'know, Jonathan Clements makes an interesting observation on the commentary for the Dezaki Golgo movie, about Golgo being what James Bond looks like to an audience who don't speak English and can't understand the context of this man who travels the world, killing people.

I think it could definitely work as an American film, but I'd rather see it done in the style of the original Day of the Jackal than a Bond flick.

Although saying that, I would pay good money to see a Tarantino-directed film about Golgo...
 
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