{"id":94417,"date":"2017-01-19T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=94417"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:22:11","slug":"attack-on-titan-remake-coming-from-harry-potter-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/attack-on-titan-remake-coming-from-harry-potter-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack On Titan remake coming from Harry Potter producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hajime Isayama&#8217;s <strong><em>Attack On Titan<\/em><\/strong> is one of the biggest manga and anime franchises to come out of Japan in a long time. There&#8217;s been the incredible anime series adaptation, the live-action movie (split into two parts), videogames, and now the logical next-step has arrived: the American remake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/01\/attack-on-titan-u-s-movie-warner-bros-producer-david-heyman-1201888133\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that Warner Bros is snapping up the right to the epic story, and they&#8217;ve appointed David Heyman as producer. Heyman has a great history with the studio, having worked on the <strong><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/strong> movies and\u00a0<strong><em>Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them<\/em><\/strong>, as well as movies like <strong><em>Gravity<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Paddington<\/em><\/strong> and the in-development Willy Wonka film.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t seen <strong><em>Attack On Titan<\/em><\/strong> (and you really should, the anime series is incredible), it &#8220;follows humans living behind a wall through generations to keep themselves safe from the alien Titans. However, curious as to what is beyond the wall, they form a scouting mission. It is not long before they find themselves battling the Titans as they try to save humanity once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site notes that the US remake would be adapting the live-action films, which were directed by Shinji Higuchi (<strong><em>Shin Godzilla<\/em><\/strong>). The first part was a big\u00a0financial success in Japan, the second was not.<\/p>\n<p>The site also makes a comparison to <strong><em>Akira<\/em><\/strong>, which Warner Bros has had in various stages of development for years and years now. Despite the best efforts of several filmmakers, no one has been able to translate\u00a0Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s manga and anime masterpiece into live-action, so presumably the studio is hoping that <strong><em>Attack On Titan<\/em> <\/strong>will give them a slightly easier ride. As the live-action version showed, it seems like an easier concept to get across in animation than live-action, but we&#8217;ll be interested to see how this one develops. And if they can&#8217;t make it, or they do it badly, there&#8217;s always the manga. And the anime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros is putting together a live-action Attack On Titan remake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":94419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4603],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/attack-on-titan-screenshot-08.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}