The Beatles were wrong. DEAD WRONG.
According to Deadline New York, Warner Bros has picked up an adaptation of All You Need Is
Kill, a Japanese novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Writer Dante Harper earned a reported low-seven figures (hey, any seven figures is a decent paycheck) for a spec script- a rarity in this day of writers pitching scripts and getting a low six figures for the concept, rather than a near-final product. Deadline thinks this might change writer’s minds about finishing up a concept in the future for the change of a bigger paycheck.
The synopsis from Amazon–
There’s one thing worse than dying. It’s coming back to do it again and again…When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he sees something different, something out of place: the female soldier known as the Bitch of War. Is the Bitch the key to Keiji’s escape, or to his final death?
A warrior killed in battle, coming back to fight the same battle again and again and learning things in the process? It actually sounds a bit like Duncan “Moon” Jones’ upcoming Source Code, which features a man doing the Groundhog Day shuffle to figure out the culprit of a terrorist attack.
Expect to possibly see the film sooner than most announcements since the script is already there.
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War of the Groundhogs.
Sounds like that Aeon Flux ep where you see all the clones of her.
ummmm this is nothing more then the story of gantz… nothing more.. 100% gantz.. horrible
But there's a character called The Bitch of War! The Bitch of War!
Just what the world needs… more bullshit from Japan about people donning "battle armor."
I prefer when Japanese fiction doesn't include battle mechs and crap like that.
The movie could never be better than the title.
Or he's just a game-bot? Anyway, I don't understand this whole Spec Script based on another person's work…? How the fuck does that work? Does the writer in question perform a service like "You know this book over here with the cool name but unwieldy storyline? Well I fuck-axed it into a 3-act movie structure! – Now give me money!" Shouldn't that writer have to pay some kind of fee to the original author for making bucks off their work? Movie options on obscure books aren't that lucrative are they?
That title is nothing: four years later, Sakurazaka penned a short story called "Night of the Holy Shit".
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