Monday, April 24, 2006
Star Blazers Greenlighted
The brain trust of nerdery at my employer has uncovered the announcement that Star Blazers has been greenlighted1 for the silver screen. Okay, the pic is just in development looking for a writer, I may possibly be setting myself up for an endless string of turnaround2 announcements, but the idea of a big screen treatment is worthy of a post to petmystone.com.
Star Blazers is a fantastic story of space adventure, one that could have only been told in animation and imagined by the Japanese.
Known for its epic imagery and themes of brave sacrifice and respect for heroes lost in the line of duty, Star Blazers is the U.S. name for 1970s Japanese anime TV series Space Battleship Yamato.
More from the Hollywood Reporter…
[1] Greenlight, v., to formally approve production finance, thereby allowing the project to move forward from the development phase to pre-production and, barring disasters, principal photography.↩
[2] turnaround, v., if a project/script is not produced, a studio may put the project on hold, indefinitely.↩