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Cary Fukunaga to Direct Adaptation of TOKYO GHOST
As his eagerly awaited James Bond installment No Time to Die is gearing up for an October theatrical release, filmmaker Cary Fukunaga set up a new feature film project.Fukunaga will direct a feature adaptation of cyberpunk Image comic series Tokyo Ghost for Legendary.
Tokyo Ghost is set in 2089 when humanity has become fully addicted to technology as an escape from reality. The story follows peacekeepers Debbie Decay and Led Dent, who are working in the Isles of Los Angeles and are given a job that will take them to the last tech-free country on Earth: the garden nation of Tokyo.
Rick Remender, whose series Fear Agent is currently being developed by Seth Rogen’s Point Grey for Amazon, and Sean Gordon Murphy, who is behind the Chrononauts comic that is set for adaptation at Netflix, are behind Image series. Remender, who previously worked with the Russo brothers as co-creator and co-showrunner on SyFy series Deadly Class, is set to pen the Legendary project.
Let’s just hope they get Murphy’s eye for cool technologies and vehicles JUST right on this adaptation!
Wednesday March 24, 2021