Warner Brothers seems to be on an anime kick. We reported earlier that the studio is working on an adaptation of Akira and Heat Vision just pointed out that the WB is in the process of securing the rights to Bleach, the popular manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo.

The story follows teenager Ichigo Kurosaki, who has the ability to see spirits and mistakenly absorbs the power of a Soul Reaper (an entity like the Grim Reaper). The Soul Reaper is then stranded on Earth in human form until she recovers her strength, and our little Ichigo must substitute for her, escorting souls to the afterlife and protecting humans from evil spirits.

The Bleach series, which has been continually published in Japan since August of 2001, includes plenty of action, dirty political maneuvering in the Soul Reaper Society and spiritually-gifted classmates.

The manga series spawned a TMNT-like empire in Japan, including an anime television series, three anime feature films, seven rock musicals (!), numerous video games and all the accompanying merchandise.

Viz Media has published numerous English-language versions of the manga series in the U.S. and Canada; Cartoon Network picked up the anime for its Adult Swim block in September of 2006.

Peter Segal (who directed the all-time classic Tommy Boy and Get Smart) and Michael Ewing (who produced each of those) are in talks to produce the film at Warner’s with Viz Media. Reportedly Segal will not be directing the film.

I’m curious to see if Ewing and Segal’s previous work lightens up Bleach, or if they will stay true to darker nature of the material. No word on when the movie will be in theaters.

當(dāng)真人版《阿基拉》的選角告一段落后，華納兄弟開始馬不停的投身另一部根據(jù)日本動(dòng)漫改編的真人電影：久保帶人的《死神》。

早在去年的時(shí)候，華納就已經(jīng)買下了《死神》的電影改編權(quán)，由《初戀50次》導(dǎo)演彼得·西格爾執(zhí)導(dǎo)。近日，他們力邀《諸神之戰(zhàn)2》編劇丹·馬祖為其執(zhí)筆劇本。但對(duì)于普通影迷和動(dòng)漫迷來說，演員陣容或許才是最受關(guān)注的環(huán)節(jié)，參考好萊塢以往改編日漫的案例，結(jié)果大多差強(qiáng)人意。

主人公黑崎一護(hù)是個(gè)擁有能看見幽靈的體質(zhì)的15歲少年。某日，神秘女孩露琪亞的降臨打破了他原本平靜的生活。露琪亞告訴一護(hù)世上有兩種魂魄，一種叫做整靈，是普通的靈；另一種是不管生人死者都攻擊的惡靈“虛”。身為死神，自己的工作是將整靈引至一個(gè)叫尸魂界的地方，并且消滅“虛”。戰(zhàn)斗中，一護(hù)偶然間得到露琪亞的能力，成為了代理死神……漫畫從2001年在《周刊少年Jump》連載至今，登場(chǎng)人物眾多各具特色，故事橫跨人類世界、尸魂界、虛圈，設(shè)定龐大。除了國內(nèi)粉絲熟知的TV動(dòng)畫外，該作還分別于06、07、08年和2010年制作推出過四部劇場(chǎng)版。