TOKYO GHOST Adaptation In The Works At Legendary From NO TIME TO DIE Director Cary Fukunaga

TOKYO GHOST Adaptation In The Works At Legendary From NO TIME TO DIE Director Cary Fukunaga

No Time To Die director Cary Fukunaga is set to helm a big-screen adaptation of Rick Remender's popular Cyberpunk Image Comics series, Tokyo Ghost, for Legendary Pictures. More past the jump...

By MarkCassidy - Mar 24, 2021 11:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Image

As James Bond fans anxiously await the release of No Time To Die later this year, director Cary Fukunaga has signed on to helm his next project: a feature adaptation of Image's cyberpunk comic series Tokyo Ghost for Legendary Pictures.

According to THR's logline, "Tokyo Ghost is set in 2089 when humanity has become fully addicted to technology as an escape from reality. The story follows peacekeepers Debbie Decay and Led Dent, who are working in the Isles of Los Angeles and are given a job that will take them to the last tech-free country on Earth: the garden nation of Tokyo."

Written by Rick Remender with artwork by Sean Murphy Matt Hollingsworth, Tokyo Ghost hit shelves back in 2015 and went on to become one of Image's best-selling comics.

Remender is expected to write the Legendary adaptation, which Fukunaga will produce under his Parliament of Owls banner with Hayden Lautenbach. Jon Silk is also producing via his new production company, Silk Mass.

What do you guys make of this news? Any big Tokyo Ghost fans out there? If so, who would you like to see land the lead roles of Dent and Decay? Drop us a comment down below.

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4thMaster
4thMaster - 3/24/2021, 11:56 AM
It's a good comic, with espectacular art and a great premise, very interesting Cyberpunk. Hopefully this format can fix some of the story kinks or spice it up.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/24/2021, 12:04 PM
@8thDoctor - this is a case where I think the adaptation will elevate the source. The story was way too REPETITIVE. The ingredients were there for it to have more depth than it actually did.
4thMaster
4thMaster - 3/24/2021, 12:58 PM
@BlackBeltJones - Agreed, everything's there, but with Remender writing this too he might fall into the same pit falls, this is a case where finding someone to adapt it might have been better.
I hope they keep the designs grounded on Murphy's art, he adds a good personal flair to the cyberpunk aesthetic.
rexlincoln
rexlincoln - 3/24/2021, 11:58 AM
Nice, Cary's a great director so I'm down for whatever he's doing.

I know he's currently directing episodes for Masters of the Air with Spielberg.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/24/2021, 12:01 PM
Haven't read this in YEARS.

The premise was always stronger than the story. I loved the art and its obvious that was the star of the comic.
4thMaster
4thMaster - 3/24/2021, 1:00 PM
@BlackBeltJones - I want to see how they do the bike. A prop for still scenes then CGI for when it needs to move? Maybe simplify the design?
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/24/2021, 1:16 PM
@8thDoctor - I'd build is practical like the Batpod if possible.

I'm sure CGI will be needed for certain stunts and scenes though.
4thMaster
4thMaster - 3/24/2021, 1:41 PM
@BlackBeltJones - That would look very cool.
MovieMonster
MovieMonster - 3/24/2021, 12:12 PM
I've never heard of this comic but the premise is interesting. I do love me some cyberpunk and Fukunaga is a solid director so hopefully this is good.

Anyways, I clicked this thinking that Fukunaga was doing a Tokyo Ghoul movie and my interest perked up. Tokyo Ghost and Tokyo Ghoul could be mistaken for one another.

GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/24/2021, 12:39 PM
@MovieMonster - Ghoul needs a proper anime still. It started off good and went downhill.
Godzilla2000Zer
Godzilla2000Zer - 3/24/2021, 12:15 PM
Always great to see Legendary continue to adapt Japanese media but I'm still waiting for that Gundam movie.
CurlyBill
CurlyBill - 3/24/2021, 12:30 PM
Damn, I was really wanting Fukunaga to reteam with Mathew
Mcconaughey for that A Time to Kill sequel series at HBO Max.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 3/24/2021, 12:37 PM
@CurlyBill - it's wild to think Schumacher went from Batman Forever to A Time to Kill to Batman & Robin. Projects that I feel are very different from each other
CurlyBill
CurlyBill - 3/24/2021, 1:01 PM
@bkmeijer - Schumacker got alot of flack for his Batman films, but as a whole that guy had one of the most varied filmographys of any director. The fact that the guy directed St. Elmos fire, falling down, 8mm, Batman & Robin, A Time to Kill and the Lost boys is pretty wild seeing how they are such diffrent films
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 3/24/2021, 3:21 PM
@CurlyBill - not gonna argue that. Guy's definitely not afraid to try out something new, so can't blame him if he not always succeeds.

His Batman movies are so bad they become good though.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 3/24/2021, 12:38 PM
Really hoped to have seen James Bond by now. I'm already familiar with Fukunaga's work on True Detective, but outside of that I'm not enough to get hyped by this news.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 3/24/2021, 12:56 PM
"Tokyo Ghost is set in 2089 when humanity has become fully addicted to technology as an escape from reality."

Just think, Remender was only 70 years off with that prophecy.
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duncboy
duncboy - 3/24/2021, 1:24 PM
Interesting comic but even as a fan I'm not entirely sure a movie of the same story would be that successful. My guess is that by the time it get's made, it's significantly different, probably white washed and probably gets a new title.
calino2212
calino2212 - 3/24/2021, 1:40 PM
Funny that tokyo becomes the last haven for a free technology city in the whole world.
J619SD
J619SD - 3/25/2021, 6:41 AM
@calino2212 - I was just thinking that.
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