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Live-Action ?Space Pirate Cobra? Slated for 2013 Summer Release
Date: 5/3/2011
French director Alexandre Aja has received the financial backing to make his dream project, a $100 million live-action version of Buichi Terasawa?s Space Pirate Cobra manga. Pre-production will begin this fall with actual filming slated for next spring and the film?s theatrical debut set for the summer of 2013.

A charter member of the "Splat Pack," Aja has already developed a cult following among horror enthusiasts for his direction of The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3-D, which he brought in for under $25 million. Last August Aja acquired the rights to Space Pirate Cobra and announced his attention to make a live-action film in large part because the anime series based on the Terasawa manga was a childhood favorite (see ?Cobra: Space Pirate?).

According to Variety, the Paris-based Onyx films and the European telco giant Orange will provide the financing for the Space Pirate Cobra adaptation. Terasawa?s old school seinen manga series, which has been a hit in Europe as well as the Far East, has sold over 35 million volumes in Japan alone since it debuted in 1978.

Aja released a poster for his new film that has genre movie fans salivating (see above).
Source: ICv2