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Warner Bros. has bought the film adaptation rights to Chohei Kambayashi 's Yukikaze , 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:
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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?
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Tom Cruise saving the world once again