dTv, Japan's biggest streaming service released a preview for “Terraformars:A New Hope” series, a three-episode prequel of Takashi Miike's adaptation, that will premiere on April 24, with the actual film scheduled for April 29.
The prequel will center on the research institute responsible for screening candidates for the Mars mission. The candidates will cheat and betray each other in a mental battle to be chosen as part of the crew, and it will reveal why the 15 crew members in the film were the ones chosen.
Hideaki Ito, Emi Takei, Mariko Shinoda, Rina Ota, Rinko Kikuchi, and Masaya Kato are reprising their roles from the film. Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kōji Matoba, Ken Aoki, Takahiro Kuroishi, Kento Hayashi, Tetsuya Sugaya, Takemi Fujii, and Saki Takaoka are playing other characters who are unique to the prequel.
Takashi Miike supervises the production, with Yoshitaka Yamaguchi directing. Yamaguchi has worked before with Miike as assistant in “Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City”, “Yatterman” and “God's Puzzle,” and was the script writer for “Yakuza Apocalypse.”
Source: Animenewsnetwork
