EXCLUSIVE: Artist Worldwide Group has signed famend Japanese filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura for illustration.
First coming onto the scene in Japan together with his ultra-violent zombie samurai motion flick Versus, Kitamura directed his first English-language characteristic with the Bradley Cooper-led The Midnight Meat Practice, an adaptation of the Clive Barker novel for Lakeshore Leisure and Lionsgate.
Beforehand, Kitamura has helmed manga variations together with the sci-fi actioner Alive; an epic samurai motion pic primarily based on Yu Koyama’s Aragami; Lupin the Third for Toho and Kadokawa; and The Three Sisters of Tenmasouinn. In tv, Kitamura created the hit collection Sky Excessive earlier than happening to direct a characteristic adaptation. Different notable credit embrace the fiftieth anniversary movie Godzilla Closing Wars, directing the narrative scenes within the bestselling online game Steel Gear Stable: The Twins Snakes, and his newest Japanese movie, Love Loss of life.
Further English-language credit for Kitamura embrace Pathé’s No One Lives starring Luke Evans, Nightmare Cinema with David Slade, and the motion thriller The Doorman starring Ruby Rose and Jean Reno. Most lately, he helmed the 2023 horror pic The Value We Pay, starring Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff.
Subsequent, Kitamura will direct the lately introduced curler coaster thriller Thrill Experience. Written by Chad Legislation and Christopher Jolley, the English-language movie will inform the story of a gaggle of individuals, together with two younger girls, who’re trapped the wrong way up on a curler coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop all of them one-by-one to their deaths.
Different notable filmmaker shoppers at AIG embrace embrace Ludovic Bernard (Lupin), Tony Kaye (American Historical past X) and Michael Haussman (Fringe of the World), to call just some. Actor shoppers embrace Michelle Yeoh (In all places All at As soon as), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire), Gong Li (Mulan), Carolina Miranda (Faux Profile), Kev Adams (Retirement House), Rafael Cebrian (Acapulco), Fan Bingbing (The 355), Rossy de Palma (Parallel Moms) and Zine Tseng (3 Physique Drawback).