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NEWS: Live Action Last Exile?

Um, Patrick is the writer of the Tokyoscope column in Animerica
and the co-author of Cruising the Anime City. He's also a professional journalist and columnist who gets to meet many of the big names in Japan. He's not just a fanboy who makes this stuff up on a DBZ website.

Doesn't make him any more reliable about the inner workings of Hollywood, nor does it make the information he's supposedly relaying any more credible.

The only way this would be even remotely credible was if there was something in Daily Variety or The Hollywood Reporter, or some sort of "development slate" announcement from the studio.

But an announcement by an "anime jounralist" (and given the nature of Anime-sepcific print media, that's not exactly a designation that should carry a lot of prestige. He may not be a DBZ fanboy, but we ain't taking about pultizer prize winning stuff.)

And to further discredit it, Joel Silver has been "interested" in every comic, anime, *insert media here* property in the last decade.

Arthur Smith, the gaijin from Gonzo did some nifty time travel trick and told me “Sam Jackson came to Japan as an invited guest for a special party we organised for Samurai 7 and Afro Samurai - and not only did he wear a katana, we gifted him one for the honor of his presence.” Seems Sam will be doing voices for Gonzo’s Afro Samurai, set for 2006.

“Joel Silver is not looking at Last Exile as far as I know...although that would be great. There is, however, a producer who works with New Line who is looking into two of our titles for live action adaptation...Last Exile and Burst Angel. And Speedgrapher has taken the interest of several TV companies but there is no solid interest from Hollywood yet...although early comments feel good.”