Onimusha Live-Action Movie In Development

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that Comingsoon.net has a story about the announcement of a live-action film of Onimusha, currently early in the planning stages, from the producers of Brotherhood Of The Wolf and the Resident Evil movie. The movie is slated to have a 50 million dollar budget, and the article mentions "..the subsequent episodes of the Onimusha game allow the story to be moved through both time and space, so the sequel possibilities are extensive."

Comments

Media Blurring.

[Monkeylaser]

It strikes me as somewhat unlikely that the guys making this movie are going to break even on it unless it has some seriously spectacular appeal to it. 50 million dollars is a pretty big hole to recoup, though I'd imagine that probably merchandising and the all-powerful DVD sales will probably eventually make it profitable.

This will probably be the first video game-based Movie I'll actually bother to see in the theaters. Tomb Raider inspired contempt in me, and Resident Evil, while sparking some small degree of interest, didn't manage to get me out of my comfortable computer chair and to the local megaplex.

Onimusha's world is enjoyable and fun to spend time in. Let's hope that the movie is for once more or less true to the source material. I'll be in line at the Cinema for this one, even if it gets panned.

Actors

[GeorgeH]

A lot of people don't realize this but the protagonist in the game is based on a real, late actor Yusaku Matsuda. I didn't realize this myself until I saw previews of Onimusha 3 which will feature Jean Freakin' Reno. It is interesting that an actor will be playing a video game character, who in turn is based on another actor.

Re:Brotherhood of the Wolf

[Elwood P Dowd]

Amen.

Just when you think the movie has taken everything to the max, they kick it up to eleven.

And then they do it again.

And again.

The last time I had my mind blown that many times cost $50,000 and I got hepatitis. Brotherhood of the Wolf was righteous.