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Columbia Pictures Remaking ‘Big Man Japan’!
Big Man Japan (Dai Nipponjin; review), the directorial debut of comedian and Downtown member Matsumoto Hitoshi, has a Hollywood remake in the works, reports Tokyo Graph.
Columbia Pictures has picked up the remake rights and attached producer Neil H. Moritz (I Am Legend, Battle: Los Angeles “Prison Break”) and screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi (The Clash of the Titans) to the project.
The cast and release window are still unknown, but Matsumoto will have an advisory role in the story changes.
Originally released in 2007, “ ‘Dai-Nipponjin’ is an odd documentary-like comedy starring Matsumoto as a seemingly ordinary man who transforms into a gigantic hero. Despite constantly saving Japan from monsters in publicly televised battles, he gets no love from his family nor gratitude from the public.”
The film earned 1.2 billion yen in Japan during its theatrical run.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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