Gungrave and Lone Wolf to go live-action

[Roy Mustang]

Convergence Entertainment has locked down the rights to develop two fantasy properties as live-action films, the Japanese manga Gungrave, created by Yasuhiro Nightow (who also created the popular outer space western Trigun) and British author Joe Dever's Lone Wolf series of game books (in the vein of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books popular in the 1980s), according to Variety.

Yasuhiro Nightow's Gungrave is about Brandon "Beyond the Grave" Heat, a member of a crime syndicate who rises from the grave to seek revenge against Millenion, an outfit run by Heat's former best friend that uses undead monsters as enforcers. Gungrave began as a third-person shooter created by Red Entertainment for PlayStation 2. It was later developed as a manga comic book published in the US by Dark Horse and an anime series.

The Lone Wolf series of game books began publication in 1984, and takes place in an alternate medieval world called Magnamund. The plot concerns the last member of a warrior caste who seeks revenge against the evil forces that destroyed his order. There are 28 books in the series, so far.

Both features will have budgets in the range of $30 million to $35 million.

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[Maokun]

Gha! Upon reading the title I thought (hoped) that you meant Lone Wolf and Cub. Seriously, how comes it hasn't happened? It is exactly the kind of franchise that should be getting a big-budget western release, not Dragon Ball *shudders*

By the way, any news on James Cameron's Gunm (Battle Angel Alita)? I heard about that one several years ago and then never heard of it again.

[Roy Mustang]

By the way, any news on James Cameron's Gunm (Battle Angel Alita)? I heard about that one several years ago and then never heard of it again.

Oscar-winning director James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar, Terminator) said at the "Entertainment Weekly: The Visionaries" panel at Comic-Con International on Friday that he is still interested the film adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM) manga. However, in response to a question posed by a convention attendee, he acknowledges that he does not have a timeframe for this project that has been in development since at least 2006. According to Cameron:

That's something we're looking at very seriously. But I have other projects as well. So, if you look way down,…]. I think it's actually…you know what, it's not a great time to ask a woman if she wants to have other kids when she's crowning.

The Hollywood Reporter trade newspaper reported in 2008 that Cameron wanted "to do something a lot smaller" after he finishes his current Avatar action film project, which will open in North America in December. Viz Media published the Battle Angel Alita manga in North America, while ADV Films released the anime version.

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