08/07/2019

Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) is working on a new sci-fi movie

The acclaimed anime and manga master Katsuhiro Otomo is ready to return with some new projects, of which the main one is a film entitled Orbital Era. Below infos and the first teaser.

The father of Akira and Steamboy is working on a new feature film that will take us to the stars in a "new era".

But the projects also involve a new adaptation of the classic Akira in a serial version, as well as a live-action film still in the works by the director Taika Waititi (produced by Warner Bros. to be released in 2021), but also the Otomo: The Complete Works edited by Otomo himself.

But talking about the new animated feature film, Orbital Era will be written, directed and designed by Otomo. Set in a space colony under construction, the story follows a group of young boys surviving the throes of fate in a strange new world.

The filmmaker's words are "The reality found in mankind's future will be depicted through [the boys'] perspective".

No release date was announced yet.

Here the first teaser trailer:

[ Fra - source AnimationMagazine ]

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