SP International Pictures announced that it acquired the rights to produce a live-action, English-language movie of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s samurai manga Lone Wolf and Cub.
SP International Pictures acquired the Lone Wolf and Cub rights from Koike Kazuo Gekiga Sonjuku, Inc. Previously, Kamala Film had acquired the rights in 2012 with director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious franchise, Better Luck Tomorrow) and writers David and Janet Peoples (Twelve Monkeys).
Before Kamala Films, director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan) had tried to secure the film rights to the manga.
The company plans to begin shooting the film in 2017 with “an essentially Japanese cast.”