| [sam id=”2″ name=”Banner-post” codes=”true”] |
Warner Bros. has bought the film adaptation rights to Yukikaze's Chohei Kambayashi, and none other than Tom Cruise has just been announced as one of the stars of the project.
Yukikaze is a rare Japanese science fiction series that doesn't feature giant robots: after an interdimensional invasion by an alien force called JAM, the UN establishes a special Air Force to send the aliens back to their dimension, in a secret war involving espionage, clones, and aerial battles with high-tech fighter jets.
Want to get an idea of what's to come? There's already a series of OVAs (direct-to-video animation) by studios Gonzo and Bandai Visual, which ran from 2002 to 2005. See below a clip of an aerial combat scene from the anime:
[youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrKmMqMoPw” width=”560″ height=”315″]
Kambayashi wrote three books in the series, published in 1984, 1999, and 2009. Tom Cruise's return to fighter jets, which made him famous with Top Gun, doesn't yet have a release date. But in a movie where he'll be piloting planes, will Tom Cruise have an excuse to do what he does best?
[youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcr0VmImhZ0″ width=”560″ height=”315″]
Tom Cruise saving the world once again