Kodoani.com – The official website for Knights of the Zodiac, the live-action adaptation of Masami Kurumada’s Saint Seiya manga, revealed a new trailer for the film on Thursday. The new trailer is a longer version of the trailer from Wednesday.
The film will hit theaters in 2023. The film’s tagline is “Pegasus will rise.”
Toei Animation producer Yoshi Ikezawa told Variety news site that Toei Animation is “considering six films as a package” for the live-action series. He added Toei Animation has “started the conversation” to make a sequel.
The film stars Mackenyu (Pacific Rim: Uprising, Rurouni Kenshin Saishūshō The Final, live-action Chihayafuru movies), Madison Iseman (Jumanji sequel, I Know What You Did Last Summer TV series), Sean Bean (Season Bean). Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, Snowpiercer series), Famke Janssen (X-Men, Taken, The Vault), Nick Stahl (Fear the Walking Dead), Diego Tinoco (On My Block) and Mark Dacascos (John Wick: Parebellum, Hawaii Five-O, Crying Freeman, Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, Iron Chef America).
Tomasz Baginski, Polish animator and special effects creator (Oscar Award-nominated animated short “Katedra,” The Witcher) will direct Toei with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Andy Cheng (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is the stunt coordinator and combat coordinator. Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken (10 Cloverfield Lane) are the latest to write the screenplay for the film. Toei is distributing in Japan and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions is distributing outside of Japan excluding China and the Middle East.
The Hollywood Reporter described the film’s story:
In what is considered an origin story, Mackenyu plays Seiya, a street orphan and the main hero of the franchise. When a mystical energy known as Cosmo awakens within him, Seiya begins his journey to conquer the ancient Greek armor of Pegasus and choose his side in the extraordinary battle for the fate of Sienna (Iseman), a Young girl struggles to control her divine abilities.
Bean plays a mentor named Alman Kiddo, a man who recruits Seiya to the Knights Templar team, the organization he founded when he discovered the goddess of reincarnation. Tinoco is a man hired to kill the vulnerable goddess.
Kurumada published the original Saint Seiya manga from 1986 to 1990. The manga has inspired several anime, anime projects, theatrical anime, and spin-off manga. The original series has 35 million copies in print. The Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō spinoff manga also gets an anime.
