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Japanese pop icon Ultraman will get an American reboot

December 19, 2018
Adriana Rosati

goes to America!

As revealed by Hollywood Reporter, — the Tokyo company founded by — has partnered with Jeff Gomez's to give the popular franchise a western reboot and expand Ultraman Universe outside Japan. A whole new Ultraman mythology and possibly a live-action streaming TV series are to be expected on multiple platforms for years to come.

Jeff Gomez of Starlight Runner Entertainment has admitted in a statement to be a huge fan of Ultraman since childhood and to be honored to bring the Ultraman legacy back to the world stage.

Ultraman premiered as a Japanese live action series in 1966, created by special-effects director Eiji Tsuburaya (first Godzilla) also founder of Tsuburaya Productions, and soon became a tokusatsu classic.

It has since been one of the longer-running Japanese productions, including 34 shows, nine original video animation specials, 30 movies and over 50 video game appearances.
Still as popular as ever, it recently appeared in the 2018 live-action film “Ultraman Geed The Movie“, released in Japan in March, and will be in the upcoming live-action sequel/adaptation to the anime series “Ultraman R/B”, to premiere in Japan in Spring 2019, and an anime adaptation of the manga for Netflix, which is set for a release in April 2019.
A superhero that celebrate the power of the individual as opposite to the dark and destructive Godzilla, Ultraman is the “secret weapon” of a high-tech police force, set to save the Earth from threatening aliens and giant monsters.

 

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Adriana Rosati

On paper I am an Italian living in London, in reality I was born and bread in a popcorn bucket. I've loved cinema since I was a little child and I’ve always had a passion and interest for Asian (especially Japanese) pop culture, food and traditions, but on the cinema side, my big, first love is Hong Kong Cinema. Then - by a sort of osmosis - I have expanded my love and appreciation to the cinematography of other Asian countries. I like action, heroic bloodshed, wu-xia, Shaw Bros (even if it’s not my specialty), Anime, and also more auteur-ish movies. Anything that is good, really, but I am allergic to rom-com (unless it’s a HK rom-com, possibly featuring Andy Lau in his 20s)"

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