The anime classic Ninja Scroll looks like it’s going to be remade by the Hollywood Transmorphomatic 300 into a live action film. We get the following scoop thanks to our friends at comingsoon:
Alex Tse (Watchmen) will write Ninja Scroll, Warners Bros. Pictures’ adaptation of the classic Japanese anime feature. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is producing along with Madhouse Pictures and Jungo Maruta.
“Ninja” is set in feudal Japan and follows a ninja who must fight eight demonic warriors in order to save Japan. The hard-R movie, released in 1993 in Japan, featured a villain with stone skin, a hunchback with a wasp nest as his hump and a woman whose snake tattoos come to life.
I think I saw Ninja Scroll 11 years ago. I was in a medical testing facility taking pills and giving blood for money. I was locked up in the lab for 2 separate 11 day runs. Seasoned blood study veterans would bring video game systems and stacks of films in order to make the time fly by. One of the films was Ninja Scroll, I remember watching it and enjoying it, but I ‘ll be damned if I could even tell you a thing about it at this point in history.
When you have such a well received anime film, I wonder if a remake is necessary or appropriate. Should anime films be left alone to the world of animation? What do you guys think? Do you have interest in seeing a live action remake of this film, or does the idea of a remake leave you with a dirty feeling?
