Casting News For The Live-Action PATLABOR Movie

Casting News For The Live-Action PATLABOR Movie

Details were being kept under wraps for the live-action Patalabor movie but a press conference has revealed some casting developments. Read on for details on the complex and ambitious project.

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By MarkJulian - Sep 25, 2013 07:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Anime & Manga
Source: via Anime News Network

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New details have been revealed on the Patlabor live-action movie from Japan's Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. The film will not be a remake of amoru Oshii's (Ghost in the Shell) original anime but will instead tell a completely new story. The project has been dubbed Patlabor - The Third Generation and is set in 2013, where the Tokyo Metropolitan Police force has been disbanded. The TMP has been dispersed into two separate divisions, Section 2, "police robots" Division 1 and Section 2 "barely holding on, budget cut" Division 2.

Former singer Erina Mano will play the lead heroine, Akira Izumino. Rounding out the cast are Seiji Fukushi as Yūma Shiobara, Rina Oota as Ekaterina Krachevna Kankaeva, voice-actor Shigeru Chiba will play his anime character, maintenance squad chief Shigeo Shiba, and Toshio Kakei as Captain Keiji Gotōda.

The project will be released in several installments that will receive short theatrical runs in Japan starting in April. The anthology esque project will debut with an episode 0 that's 10 minutes long and continue with 12 more episodes that are each, 48 minutes long. Oshii will direct one or more of the episodes but other directors will helm some of the others. Oshii is also working on a traditional feature film that will be released in 2015. The project has a budget of approximately $20 million USD, with filming having begun in June and ending in December.



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Patlabor also known as Mobile Police Patlabor, is a 1988 anime and manga that centered around the special robotics force of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police as they solved various cases in a then-near-future of 1998. There have been several anime films, anime series, mangas, light novels and video games to date.


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Ceejay
Ceejay - 9/25/2013, 7:49 AM
Lets hope it doesn't bore the living daylights out of me like the anime.
thewolfx
thewolfx - 9/25/2013, 8:13 AM
Weres my [frick]ing guyver reboot!
LEOSTRATOR
LEOSTRATOR - 9/25/2013, 10:55 AM
I want Vampire Hunter D.
otakux3r0
otakux3r0 - 9/25/2013, 11:16 AM
I've actually been waiting on this movie since 1998. Is it just that they (needlessly) changed character names or are there a truckload of spelling/factual errors in this article? Possibly some combination of. @TankD/thewolfx Guyver reboot would be awesome but if they don't have the stones to finish the anime we'll never see a reboot. I was expecting this movie wouldn't give a crap about the source material, but now I just hope it's at least entertaining. Oh well maybe Noa and the gang will make an appearance and steal the show. Here's hoping for a good movie.
Enphlieuwince
Enphlieuwince - 9/25/2013, 11:37 AM
Bleach for me. Guyver and Vampire Hunter D DO need to be adapted too. I'm gonn watch VHD as soon as this rerun of American Dad goes off too.
sarahsatire
sarahsatire - 9/25/2013, 11:51 AM
Hell yes to Vampire Hunter D.

Preferably something closer to the original than the sequel though. Although still good, Bloodlust just didn't have the heart that the original had.
Jimdlux
Jimdlux - 9/25/2013, 4:13 PM
The what?!?!?
MarkJulian
MarkJulian - 9/25/2013, 4:15 PM
@otakux3r0 Complete new story set in the same universe. Some characters are familiar and others are brand new. The report wasn't clear on whether this is a sequel or reinterpretation.
robometrallador
robometrallador - 9/25/2013, 4:18 PM
well the cgi might be no up to standards of us movies, but any action scene asia produces kicks ass to any major hollywood blockbuster, i watched a korean soap opera with a fight sequence that kicked ass, and i thought why does movies like the dark knight rises have such a stiff akward completely devoid of flow action sequences
Panoramacon
Panoramacon - 9/25/2013, 4:47 PM
Too bad the Bayformers didn't look like that.
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/25/2013, 5:55 PM
loving the look of the patlabor mecha,should of made the transformers(from the movies) look like the toys & cartoon.
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