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Australia's Madman Ent. Adds Live-Action Black Butler Film
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Australian licensing company Madman Entertainment announced at the Supanova Sydney convention that it acquired the Black Butler live-action film. The film will released on home video and digital platforms soon. It has not been licensed in North America.
While the original manga is set in 19th century England, this new film is set more than 130 years later in 2020, in an Asian city where Western and Asian cultures freely intermingle. Since only males can take the reins of the Phantomhive family, a young woman named Shiori dons male clothes and the name Kiyoharu Genpō to lead the massive Phantom Corporation.
The world Shiori lives in is divided between East and West, and she works as an intelligence operative (nicknamed The Queen’s Watchdog) for the Queen of the Western nations, who is trying to unite the world. The Queen tasks Shiori to solve a "serial mummified murder case" as well as the disappearances of a few women. Before long, Shiori manages to discover a "black invitation" that ties the two incidents together, but that invitation leads her to a world she should not have entered, and she is cornered into a dilemma.
The film opened in Japan on January 18.
Madman also licensed the Ben-To and Hetalia The Beautiful World television anime series.
Thanks to WTK for the news tip
