Live-Action ATTACK ON TITAN Movie Confirmed for 2015

Looks like the ATTACK ON TITAN live-action movie adaptation is moving forward, and is set for release in Japan on November 22, 2015 (no details yet about a Philippine release). Special effects supervisor and storyboard artist Shinji Higuchi, who is best-known for his work on the 1990 series Gamera and the anime Evangelion, will be directing the movie. [hit the jump to continue]

Hashima Island

Tomohiro Machiyama and Yusuke Watanabe, who worked on the live-action film, Gantz, will both write the screenplay, and Hajime Isayama himself, who is the creator and author of the original Manga, will be the film's supervisor.

The film will be shot on location at Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, which, in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, the island served as an inspiration for the lair of villain Raoul Silva. Singer-actor Haruma Miura who will be playing the lead role of the character Eren Yager.

ATTACK ON TITAN is currently one of the most popular anime and manga series that is becoming this massive worldwide phenomenon. The story centers on Eren Yeager, his adoptive sister Mikasa, and their friend Armin, whose lives are changed forever after the appearance of a Colossus Titan brings about the destruction of their home town and the death of Eren's mother. Vowing revenge and to reclaim the world from the Titans, Eren, Mikasa and Armin enlist in the Military and join the Survey Corps—an elite group of soldiers who fight Titans outside the walls.

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