Date:September 30, 2004
Source: MovieHole
Posted by: Robert Sanchez
Clint over at Moviehole has just sent us this report regarding a live action Samurai Girl feature film.
Melissa Joan Hart is going to be in a live-action version of SAMURAI GIRL, the Manga thing.
She may have missed out on reprising the role of "Sabrina, the Teenage witch" for the upcoming big-screen venture - Sarah Michelle Gellar is who producers want instead - but Melissa Joan Hart won't have time to whine. She's scored herself a nice plum movie role.
Hart is teaming with screenwriter Dan Gordon ["Wyatt Earp"] to do a live-action version of manga series, "Samurai Girl : Real Bout High School".
"The storyboard aspect of manga is already custom-built for film," said Steve Galloway, TOKYOPOP's Executive Director of Film/Television. "And with Hart and Gordon attached to this story's fast-moving adventures, we have all the makings of a terrific cinematic package for teens."
The project materialized after TOKYOPOP was introduced to Hartbreak Films, the producers of "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" and other quality family series and movies. Executive Producer Paula Hart reviewed several anime/manga properties hoping one would be a perfect vehicle for Hart. They immediately began looking for a writer who could do justice to "Ryoko," the manga's protagonist.
"Our journey led us to Dan Gordon," Paula Hart recalled. "Dan took a few weeks reading the material and then delivered a story that had us sitting on the edges of our seats. It is smart, funny and terribly exciting."
Dan Gordon describes the script as "a delicious action/comedy mix of Clueless meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." It's the story of an ancient Samurai warrior reincarnated as a twenty-something-year-old sushi bar hostess. Ryoko discovers she is mankind's only hope in destroying a coven of murderous wolverines who are hatched every 5,000 years and-if left unchecked-will destroy all humanity.
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