Announced awhile ago with Tom Cruise attached to it, the live action adaptation of Yukikaze is moving forward once again as a screenwriter has been brought on board. The project, which adapts the novels by Chohei Kambayashi that was previously made into an anime OVA series, doesn’t have a formal start date or a theatrical release date yet so it’s not being fast tracked. The latest change to the gestating project is that Warner Bros. has brought in Dan Mazeau to write the adaptation off of the original works. Mazeau has only Wrath of the Titans to his filmography when it comes to movies, but he’s worked on scripts for other projects and was named one of the 10 screenwriters to watch back in 2008 by Variety, which is when his script adapt Johnny Quest was on the Blacklist of unproduced films.
Plot Concept: Unbeknownst to the general population, an alien force opened an inter-dimensional gate in Antarctica over 30 years ago in an attempt to invade the Earth. The unified forces of Earth formed an elite military unit under command of the United Nations to combat the aliens and to push them back towards their own dimension. But the war still rages on.
Rei Fukai is an elite pilot of the Special Air Force (SAF) and designated pilot of the Yukikaze, an advanced fighter armed with a sentient computer control system. When fear of alien infiltration within the SAF spreads, the Yukikaze may be the only weapon humanity has to bring an end to this war.
[Source: Variety]
