A pamphlet and some information related to the live-action adaptation of Assassination Classroom by author Yusei Matsui have been released. Cinemas throughout Japan will begin distributing the pamphlet in November, but the premiere will only take place on March 21, 2015.
Eiichirō Hasumi (Umizaru films, Wild 7) is directing the film, and Tatsuya Kanazawa (Lucky Seven) is writing the script. Filming began at an abandoned elementary school in the suburbs of Japan's Kanto district on August 31 and is wrapping up in mid-October.
The story is about class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Middle School, where every morning they greet their teacher with a mass firing squad. The teacher is a strange combination of an alien and an octopus that moves at Mach-20 speeds. It turns out that this creature was responsible for the destruction of the moon, making it permanently crescent-shaped. He announced that he will destroy the world in one year. The creature will teach class 3-E how to assassinate him before the year ends.
