The brilliant Manga Lone Wolf And Cub, an epic tale set in feudal Japan, may be in line for yet another movie adaptation as Deadline report..
Kamala Films has acquired film rights to the Kazuo Koike-created 1970s Japanese manga Lone Wolf and Cub, attaching David & Janet Peoples to write the script. Fast Five‘s Justin Lin had already been attached to direct. Kamala’s Marissa McMahon will produce with 1212 Entertainment’s Elizabeth Grave and Joshua Long, with Roberto Grande exec producing.
The Peoples have some impressive writing gigs on their resumes, having worked on
Blade Runner, Unforgiven and
Twelve Monkeys. While Lin made a few of the
Fast And Furious movies, and will helm the untitled sixth film in the franchise. Not exactly as impressive, but hey someone must like those movies, they made six of them! Anyway, if you are unfamiliar with
Lone Wolf And Cub it tells the story of Ogami Ittō, the Shogun's executioner who is disgraced by false accusations from the Yagyū clan. He is then forced to take the path of the assassin, and along long with his three-year-old son, Daigorō, they seek revenge on the Yagyū clan and are known as "Lone Wolf and Cub". The original Manga was first published in 1970 and has since been adapted into six films, four plays and a television series.
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