Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack Manga Becoming Live-Action TV Drama

Friday, August 3rd, 2012 at 7:45am
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Osamu Tezuka’s <i>Black Jack</i> Manga Becoming Live-Action TV Drama  

Entertainment One, the Toronto-based company that co-produces AMC’s Hell on Wheels and Syfy’s Haven, is developing a live-action television series based on Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga Black Jack. Deadline reports that Taka Ichise and Doug Davison, who worked together on the U.S. adaptations of The Ring and The Grudge, will executive produce for eOne.

Debuting in 1973, Black Jack centers on a medical mercenary who sells his formidable skills to the highest bidder, treating everyone from crime lords to political leaders to common citizens. With his stitched-up face and cape, Black Jack is a shadowy figure with a complex moral code who, if moved by a patient’s story, will treat them for free, and donates much of his money to charity.

The manga was serialized until 1983, and has been adapted several times in animated form for Japanese television and film.

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  • Josh

    It’s been adapted for live action in Japan several times as well.  I’d imagine this time they’ll cut out the creepy doll with human innards though.

  • ZBaksh386

    this might be successful.

  • Orphan

    Anything but another Marvel/ DC project.Hopefully,it won’t be over the top in the Oldboy style.Any chance this will shut up the pro reboot Batman pro Justice League crowd for awhile?

  • Demoncat4

    nice hope it starts a new trend here in the u.s since saw the animie a few times. and hope that creepy doll  gets dropped 

  • Ran

    Hopefully, they get an actor that,at least, is Asian for him.That would be different.

  • http://twitter.com/Arthurknight Michael J

    They’ll probably get Tom Cruise to play the lead role.You know how they are with asian actors over here playing roles that are from a popular manga book that are the same race as them.It always ends up with a caucasian actor playing the asian role.It’s a never ending cycle.The only time this doesn’t happen is if the main character is african american but other then that the white actor will play the asian roles,british ones as well and hey, just about any character who is very light skinned. 

    Here’s some great examples. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/11/29/casting-white-actors-in-asian-roles-1957-to-today/

  • Dkharris74

    naw their going to white wash it

  • nope

    the fuck is this why do you bastards hate pinoko

    she’s a fuckin cool kid she ain’t creepy

    nah bro

    just fuck off

 

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