Gaiking live-action feature film of Shogun Warriors

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a full-blown feature film with Matthew Gratzner directing.

a new film based on Gaiking, a giant mech member of the Shogun Warriors. The Shogun Warriors were popularized via a number of manga and anime TV series during the 1970s

Lightstage, the company that developed the 3-D character mapping technology you saw in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Unsurprisingly, the Gaiking film will also use Lightstage. After the jump, see a teaser for the film and hear some more details,

Gaiking may hit theaters as early as 2012 although it “could be 2013.”

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1:30 teaser trailer video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS6E-Nu3xsg&feature=player_embedded


via
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/12/details-emerge-about-gaiking-movie/


imdb listing:
Gaiking (2012)
[currently no info. in development]

Looks a lot like the Transformers movie sploshionfests....


info:
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/05/gaiking-movie-update.html

early details from April
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44426