Hollywood Film Adaptation of 'Boku no Hero Academia' Announced

by Vindstot
Oct 24, 2018 11:17 PM | 78 Comments

Legendary Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group, announced a live-action film based on Kouhei Horikoshi's superhero manga Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) on Wednesday. Alex Garcia (Godzilla) and Jay Ashenfelter (Pacific Rim: Uprising associate producer) will supervise the film for Legendary, with the manga's editor Ryousuke Yoritomi on behalf of Shueisha. Toho will handle the film's distribution in Japan.

Boku no Hero Academia began its serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump in July 2014. Shueisha published the 20th volume on September 4, with the 21st volumes planned for a December 4 release. The manga currently has a cumulative 17 million copies of its compiled volumes in circulation.

Studio Bones produced the 13-episode first anime season in Spring 2016, followed by two 25-episode seasons in Spring 2017 and Spring 2018, respectively. The 13th and 14th volumes included two OVA episodes in April and June last year. An anime film featuring an original story premiered in Japan on August 3, grossing over 1.5 billion yen. A fourth season is currently in production.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English under its Shounen Jump imprint in February 2015 and has since been publishing the series in their digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The 15th volume went on sale on October 2. Funimation licensed the anime series in North America and shipped the first season on a Blu-ray and DVD volume last April. The second season was released in two volumes on April 3 and June 5 earlier this year.

Legendary's lineup of upcoming films include Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, a joint production with Warner Bros. and Toho based on the titular video game and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a sequel to the 2014 American reboot of the franchise; both of which are scheduled to premiere next year on May 10 and 31, respectively. Godzilla vs. Kong, a crossover sequel, is in pre-production for a May 2020 release. The company is also co-producing a live-action Gundam film with animation studio Sunrise.

Source: Deadline

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Superhero movies are the Isekai of Hollywood.

Dec 2, 2018 6:29 AM by TrashDax

Deku's actor going to cry alot :o

Nov 4, 2018 11:34 AM by Stardew

Ouuf. Idk what else to say other than Ouuf, because I think this is a big “Ouuf”.

Nov 2, 2018 8:29 PM by odesa

Well... There is that...

Oct 29, 2018 5:00 PM by XXXXXXXXXIII

I don't know about this one, chief.

We already got Sky High...

Oct 29, 2018 3:19 PM by GoddessofMayhem

Idk if I should laugh or cry

Oct 28, 2018 7:23 PM by Kei34

I thought Ghost in the Shell (2017) with Scarlett Johansson would place anime live actions on hold for a few years, but with this BNHA movie and Detective Pikachu movie I am very wrong then. Also, anime meets Hollywood? Well...

Oct 28, 2018 4:10 PM by Linerax

Curious about what the casting choices will be. I'm not huge on live action adaptations, but I hear the crew behind it is decent. We'll see I guess

Oct 28, 2018 2:39 PM by Claptrap

there was no other way...

Oct 27, 2018 8:22 PM by foxsurprise

What is with Hollywood's obsession with making live action movie adaptations of anime series'? Shouldn't they know by now that it's not profitable and will fail horribly?

Oct 27, 2018 7:59 PM by TsukuyomiREKT

this will be either a dumpster fire or greatly stupid either way im watching it to see how retardedly great it will be

or maybe it will be ok who knows

Oct 27, 2018 7:53 PM by TheDragonGirl27

Better not be Dragon Ball Evolution cus that one already is a shit mess.

Oct 27, 2018 4:12 AM by SpeedRoidGenm

Oh boy, this surely cannot go wrong whatsoever. I am sickened, but curious either way.

Oct 26, 2018 6:04 PM by Yuno

The Rock/Michael Cera as All Mighty would work :P

but plz no blond Wigg for The Rock.

Oct 26, 2018 4:20 PM by NiQue_

Antagonized said:
New Key Visual Released

Ok that actually made me laugh out loud.

Oct 26, 2018 3:12 PM by MrAwesome2018

New Key Visual Released

Oct 26, 2018 7:12 AM by Antagonized

It's not a good idea tbh.

Oct 26, 2018 6:32 AM by Detective1412

...
how is this even going to turn out..

Oct 26, 2018 3:48 AM by southerntw

I seriously hope dragonball evolution director will direct this. He has to redeem for evolution.

Oct 26, 2018 3:41 AM by removed-user

I think with franchises like this, Gundam, and Allita: Battle Angel, live action anime might finally pick up steam and start getting good, especially with Allita: Battle Angel, which looks fantastic from the trailers alone.

Note:it especially helps that Anime is A LOT more mainstream than it was a few years ago.

Oct 25, 2018 6:58 PM by NG_Chloe

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