Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Monday that according to its sources, Julius Avery (live-action 2018 Overlord film, Son of a Gun) will direct Sony Pictures’ planned live-action adaptation of Hiroya Oku’s Gantz manga.
Deadline had previously reported in May 2020 that producer and scriptwriter Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) was “already in business with Sony Pictures adapting the graphic novel Gantz.”
Deadline also reported that Temple Hill is producing the adaptation, and that the project is in early development with no start date set yet.
The manga inspired a television anime, a CG anime film, two Japanese live-action films, and two spinoff manga.