Skybound Opens Japan Workplace, Adapts Coronary heart Assault Comedian for TV

Skybound Leisure is heading eastward to open up a brand new studio in Tokyo, Japan.

The studio behind Invincible and The Walking Dead are establishing store there with the categorical goal of specializing in properties made particularly from that nation’s crop of manga and anime creators. Heading up the studio shall be Ash Nukui, a producer on the Japanese miniseries Sniffer the Investigation Officer and the movie Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. As Skybound famous within the press launch, that is its second offshoot studio this 12 months (preceded by Skybound North in Vancouver) and “marks a major new chapter representing and producing Japanese content material.”

First up on Skybound Japan’s docket shall be an adaptation of its graphic novel Heart Attack. Created Shawn Kittelsen, Eric Zawadzki, and Mike Spicer, the 2020 sequence is about in a post-pandemic United States that’s managed to efficiently eradicate all illness by way of gene remedy. However in its wake, folks with distinctive powers referred to as “Variants” have been created, with a lot of them forming a riot after the federal government begins to remove their rights. The live-action adaptation will star the comedian’s teen protagonists Charlie and Jill, a pair of Variants who cross paths. When their attraction to at least one one other finally ends up unlocking their powers, the 2 go on the run from Variant trackers.

Skybound shall be teaming with Japanese community Fuji TV for manufacturing and native broadcasting. The corporate’s managing associate Rick Jacobs referred to as the incoming adaptation “just the start of what we hope to attain within the Japanese market.” In keeping with Deadline, Skybound has plans to construct out its attain even additional—and with the latest revival of Spike & Mike’s Animation Festival, it’s clear the studio needs to make itself a giant identify within the animation house throughout the globe.

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