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‘Human Vapor’ Official Trailer – Classic Toho Film Gets a Netflix Reboot Series This Summer
Director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla) brought The Human Vapor to the screen for Toho back in 1960, and the classic tokusatsu film is getting a brand new series reboot from Netflix.
All eight episodes of “Human Vapor” will premiere July 2 on Netflix.
Watch the brand new official trailer below.
Here’s the full official synopsis: “Kenji Okamoto (Shun Oguri), a detective on suspension, is recruited to hunt down the criminal behind a series of unprecedented murders. It all starts when a college professor suddenly swells and explodes on live television.
“Before anyone can process this bizarre event, a man calling himself the Human Vapor (UTA) announces that he will perform a series of murders, sending society into a great panic.
“Kenji and reporter Kyoko (Yu Aoi) devote themselves to uncovering the truth and catching the culprit, who seems to be mocking the authorities as they struggle to close in on him. With each new killing, he corrodes society with a formless, pervasive fear.”
“A legendary Toho film is rebooted with a brand-new story,” Netflix previews. “VFX by the Academy Award-winning team Shirogumi that amazed the world with its work on Godzilla Minus One is combined with an extraordinary sense of scale, represented by grand car chases. A visual experience of a new dimension that far surpasses past Japanese drama series.”
Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Kento Hayashi, and Yutaka Takenouchi star.
Shinzo Katayama directed “Human Vapor,” written by Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) and Ryu Yong-jae. This marks the first collaboration between Netflix and Toho Studios.
Calling all Crewmates! Paramount+ announced today the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, which was unveiled live at Summer Game Fest.
Created by Owen Dennis and produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, all ten episodes of Among Us are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
The series follows “a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs.”
It’s based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name, which has been brought to life in the brand new trailer below.
Among Us boasts a star-studded voice cast, too:
- Yvette Nicole Brown as “Orange”
- Kimiko Glenn as “Cyan”
- Liv Hewson as “Black”
- Ashley Johnson as “Purple”
- Wayne Knight as “Lime”
- Phil LaMarr as “Brown”
- Randall Park as “Red”
- Dan Stevens as “Blue”
- Debra Wilson as “Yellow” and “Computer”
- Elijah Wood as “Green”
- Patton Oswalt as “White”
Animation studio Titmouse is behind the series.
Among Us became a global sensation in 2020, generating more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch. In October 2020 alone, it ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide. The game is available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series.
The paranoid phenomenon now heads to Paramount+ in animated series form. Watch the new trailer below as all episodes launch on streaming today.
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