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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.
Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning.
It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s Knives Out… only this particular murder-mystery is set in a retirement community!
Variety details, “The book, released in 2020, tells the story of four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.”
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are “being eyed” to lead the cast!
Richard Osman’s 2020 novel was such a hit that it launched a franchise. Follow-up The Man Who Died Twice followed in 2021, with The Bullet That Missed coming along in 2022. And then there was The Last Devil to Die in 2023, with a fifth book in the series expected in 2025.
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