THE BRIDE WITH JET BLACK HAIR
Here's an item someone out there might just be interested in . . .
The place: Japan in 1966, a few months before the Vietnam War begins. The person: Saya, the last remaining original – a shinso vampire and the supernatural muscle of a secret U.S. government backed team of daemon hunters (they're referred to as Chiroptera – whatever that means). The mission: Just before Halloween Saya takes on an undercover job, that poses her as (yep, you guessed it) a Japanese school girl and sends her into the gaijin packed halls of Yokota Air Base in Fussa-shi, Tokyo. In no time flat, she uncovers two classmates who are Chiroptera in disguise and starts up with a damn fine impression of Connor McCloud.
I hope you recognize that, because there are words and whispers drifting around the highways and byways hinting and outright saying that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" producer Billy Kong has inked a deal to produce the live-action version of Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Kenji Kamiyama and Katsuya Terada's semi-cult havin' but not quite feature length anime "Blood: The Last Vampire" with a pretty freakin' promising helping hand from none other than "Bride With White Hair" director Ronny Yu.
Who:
- Plans on making the live action Blood: The Last Vampire his next project.
- Is determined to "reinvent" the rather beleaguered vampire genre (god bless him) and will avoid the standard "greys and blues" familiar to Underworld fans in favor of a "full multimedia color" scheme.
- Will change the setting from the pre 'Nam Tokyo of 1966 to the post WWII Tokyo of 1948.
I'm quite a fan of Blood, so I hope some of the above is true.
