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The Sports Nippon newspaper is reporting on Monday that a Hollywood live-action film adaptation of the hit anime series Space Battleship Yamato has been green-lit. According to the newspaper, the film will open as soon as 2017 under the title Star Blazers. Shoji Nishizaki, the adopted son of the late Yamato producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, is listed as the executive producer, and Sports Nippon indicates that it is possible that Japanese actors will appear in the cast.

The Deadline website reported last October that McQuarrie had been attached to direct Skydance Productions’ planned live-action film remake of Star Blazers. McQuarrie is the screenwriter of The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, Jack Reacher, and Jack the Giant Slayer, and he had already been attached to write the project when Skydance (True Grit, World War Z, Star Trek: Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) was negotiating for the rights in 2011.

McQuarrie had revealed in an interview in December 2012 that the film was still in negotiations. Skydance registered the “Starblazersthemovie.com” domain last year.

Comic Natalie notes that Voyager Entertainment, the rights holder for Yamato, made the announcement. Star Blazers is the tentative title for the project for now. Skydance Productions CEO David Ellison discussed the timeframe, “I can’t say definitely, but I want the film to open in 2017 or 2018.”

They do seem to be getting along well, however.

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