Tyrus Pictures Options Noah Of The Blood Sea For Live-Action Film
Tyrus Pictures has optioned the film adaptation rights to Yu Satomi's horror manga Noah Of The Blood Sea (Kekkai no Noah) from publisher Takeshobo, with production targeted to start in 2027.
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Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Deadline Japan.
Why it matters
The option puts a completed five-volume horror manga, already translated into German, Italian, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Thai, into an English-language pipeline that did not previously exist for it.
Key Facts
- Tyrus Pictures has optioned the film adaptation rights to Yu Satomi's Noah Of The Blood Sea from Takeshobo.
- Tyrus Pictures is targeting a 2027 production start for the Noah Of The Blood Sea film.
- Michael Zelman and Hamid Mokhneche will produce the Noah Of The Blood Sea adaptation for Tyrus Pictures.
- Yu Satomi ran Noah Of The Blood Sea on Takeshobo's Web Comic Gamma from August 2018 to June 2021, and the fifth and final volume shipped in June 2021.
- An English-language edition of Noah Of The Blood Sea is planned for North America, and a Taiwanese edition is in development.
Michael Zelman and Hamid Mokhneche will produce for the Los Angeles-based company. Deadline reported the deal on Monday, and Anime News Network relayed it the same day. The manga ran on Takeshobo's Web Comic Gamma site from August 2018 to June 2021, and Takeshobo published a fifth and final compiled volume in June 2021. It follows passengers on a luxury cruise ship who begin to die under mysterious circumstances involving vampires. An English-language edition is planned for North America, and a Taiwanese edition is in development. Mokhneche said a luxury cruise ship, an unnerving atmosphere and a supernatural mythology gave the material what he called cinematic potential.
Takeshobo's deputy general manager Atsushi Kimura and deputy corporate officer Shin Ogasawara negotiated for the publisher, with Mokhneche handling the deal for Tyrus Pictures. Both Takeshobo executives gave statements to Deadline. Kimura said he and Satomi are eager to see the manga's visual style move to the screen, and Ogasawara cited Mokhneche's grasp of the original work in the publisher's decision to sign.
Zelman and Mokhneche launched Tyrus Pictures last year with a plan to produce one to two features a year at budgets between $5 million and $50 million, and Zelman said the company had long wanted a project rooted in Japanese horror. Takeshobo, founded in 1972, publishes Made in Abyss among other titles. The manga's overseas reach runs through editions in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, South Korea and Thailand.
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