This story seems to percolate every couple of years and it’s surfaced once again as David R. Ellis, the director behind Shark Night 3D, is partnering with the producers at Distant Horizons to bring the anime OVA series Kite to the big screen. Ellis has been around a bit with some solid pop culture credits to his name such as Snakes on a Plane and two of the Final Destination movies as well as his first work with Homeward Bound of all things. Ellis and the producers are apparently already in casting mode and seeing actors with plans to go into production in January for the film.
“I am a big fan of Yasuomi Umetsu and honored to bring the amazing world of ‘Kite’ to the big screen,” Ellis said.
The live action “Kite” is being developed as a character-driven actioner centered on a young woman living in a failed state, post-financial collapse, where the corrupt security force profits on the trafficking of young women. When her father, a cop, is slain by someone dirty inside the force, she vows to track the murderer down with the help of her father’s ex-partner — never realizing he is, in fact, the man who had her father killed.
[Source: Variety]
Check out the animated version (and its sequel) here for a very cheap price:
