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Columbia Pictures Remaking ‘Big Man Japan’!
Big Man Japan (Dai Nipponjin; review), the directorial debut of comedian and Downtown member Matsumoto Hitoshi, has a Hollywood remake in the works, reports Tokyo Graph.
Columbia Pictures has picked up the remake rights and attached producer Neil H. Moritz (I Am Legend, Battle: Los Angeles “Prison Break”) and screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi (The Clash of the Titans) to the project.
The cast and release window are still unknown, but Matsumoto will have an advisory role in the story changes.
Originally released in 2007, “ ‘Dai-Nipponjin’ is an odd documentary-like comedy starring Matsumoto as a seemingly ordinary man who transforms into a gigantic hero. Despite constantly saving Japan from monsters in publicly televised battles, he gets no love from his family nor gratitude from the public.”
The film earned 1.2 billion yen in Japan during its theatrical run.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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