‘Gantz’ Being Turned Into a 2-part, Live-action Film!!!

Gantz (one of the most disturbingly awesome anime series I’ve ever seen) will be made into a 2-part, live action movie!

The film adaptation will feature Kazunari Ninomiya (Tekkonkinkreet, Letters from Iwo Jima), Shinsuke Sato (The Princess Blade, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror), and Ken’ichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City) and the films are set to release in the spring and winter of 2011.

If you’ve never read the manga or watched the anime, Gantz is about these people who die and wake up in a room. In the center of the room is a giant black ball that sends them on missions. Each mission is pretty much a sick game where they’re forced to murder monsters and weird aliens, and an innocent little onion child. There’s typically some extreme consequences for not participating in a mission, which makes shit even crazier.

When Gantz isn’t being crazy-violent, it’s being crazy-sexual. There’s plenty of nudity, extreme sexual harassment, and big ol’ bouncin’ boobies.

I actually picked up Gantz on a complete whim at Best Buy. I had no idea what it was about. I just thought the case looked cool.

Here’s the packaging for the discs. It’s cool because there’s magnets inside the cardboard that keep the whole thing closed after you fold it up. Then you can just stick inside the big Gantz ball.

Here’s the back of the Gantz ball. It says “100 Pts. Perfect Score,” which is a reference to the points earned by the dead people playing the Gantz game. After each mission, they can use their points to get upgraded weapons and even wish dead players back to life. I’m telling you, this shit is crazy!!!

Here’s a peek at the anime:

The anime’s cool, but gets kinda’ weak towards the end. This is because the manga (which is still ongoing) was on hiatus or something, so the studio just had to do the best they could. I highly recommend checking out the manga. Shit will blow your mind.

The official site for the movie just launched, but it’s all in Japanese. Here’s a link for those of you who might wanna’ keep an eye on it for more news and whatnot.

[Via Anime News Network]