Live-Action Lollipop Chainsaw Film Announced At Tokyo Game Show
The franchise is now running three separate tracks at once, a sequel game, an anime, and a Western-facing live-action film, and the producers are naming Hollywood and worldwide audiences as the target rather than Japan.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The livestreamed Lollipop Chainsaw New Project presentation at Tokyo Game Show announced on Saturday that the franchise is being adapted into a film. Ambitious Entertainment producer Kirk Shaw and ZDF Studios' former vice president of drama Robert Franke are producing, and both expressed intent to make a Hollywood film for worldwide audiences. Nada Holdings founder Joe Teng described the film as live-action and separate from previously announced anime plans.
Deadline later added three more names to the production side: Throne Inc. managing director Takafumi Yuki and Non Stop TV president Patricio Rabuffetti, alongside Shaw, Franke, and Teng. The reveal came in the same Tokyo Game Show presentation that carried the game news, which puts the film and the software on one stage rather than two separate campaigns.
Nada Holdings and Dragami Games also used the stream to confirm Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back for PlayStation 5 in 2027, directed by Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata, with JP Universe developing and original game writer Masahiro Yuki returning to the script.
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