{"id":125438,"date":"2022-06-14T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125438"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:39:26","slug":"sony-acquires-fast-and-furious-director-for-one-punch-man-adaption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125438-sony-acquires-fast-and-furious-director-for-one-punch-man-adaption","title":{"rendered":"Sony acquires Fast and Furious director for One Punch Man adaption"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Deadline<\/a><\/strong>, Sony Pictures has enlisted Justin Lin to helm the movie adaption of the hugely successful manga series and anime, One Punch Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Justin Lin is no stranger to successful action franchises, as his previous works include Fast & Furious parts three, four, five, six, and nine, as well as Star Trek Beyond.<\/p>\n

This news follows Sony announcing<\/a><\/strong> earlier this year that it will focus its talents on developing live-action remakes of notable games and comics franchises.<\/p>\n

The One Punch Man<\/em> adaption will trail the story by Japanese artist ONE that follows Saitama, a superhero who can defeat any opponent with a single punch.<\/p>\n

One Punch Man<\/em> was created in 2009 as a webcomic before it quickly became a global hit with worldwide sales totalling more than 30 million copies.<\/p>\n

Sony recently acquired the rights for the film from Shueisha and joining Lin on the project will be script writers Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner, and production studio Arad Productions.<\/p>\n

Rosenberg and Pinkner will write the live-action film after previously teaming up on the successful Jumanji: The Next Level<\/em> and Venom<\/em> films.<\/p>\n

Arad Productions, on the other hand, is credited for producing notable film series such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men,<\/em> and Venom<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lin will also be a producer and will work with the scribes on a rewrite with the intention to begin production by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Sony noted that it will provide more details on the development of the One Punch Man<\/em> movie adaptation in the new year.<\/p>\n

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Read: All the big reveals from the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony has found a director to helm its One Punch Man movie adaption, and he\u2019s no stranger to successful action franchises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":125439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18383,26281,26282,6449],"class_list":["post-125438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-anime","tag-movie-adaption","tag-one-punch-man","tag-sony-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}