Viz Media has announced a film adaptation for Phantasm Japam:
VIZ Productions is excited to announce its next feature film project, developing the haunting short story “The Street of Fruiting Bodies” by famed Japanese author Sayuri Ueda! The Los Angeles-based film development division of VIZ Media has retained Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm to write the adaptation about an infestation of deadly hallucinogenic spores. The short story is part of the PHANTASM JAPAN anthology from VIZ Media’s Haikasoru imprint, home also to ALL YOU NEED IS KILL, which was developed into the 2014 summer action feature Edge of Tomorrow.
Says Jason Hoffs, Head of Production at VIZ Productions: “Sayuri Ueda turns the ‘killer virus’ concept on its head with an agent that strikes at our emotions rather than our bodies. We hope to marry the pace of a riveting popcorn movie with a compelling meditation on life-after-death, love and memory, and God.”
Screenwriter Sam Hamm says of the new project: “Ueda creates a world in which the most profound human emotions – love, grief, longing, and hope – can lead to one’s salvation or one’s undoing, and the true horror is that it may be impossible to tell the difference. ‘The Street of Fruiting Bodies’ is not only disturbing, it is moving.”
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