Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Yay! Actually, I've never heard of Sailor Moon


From ifitsmovies, "Hey everyone, Ryan here with a scoop coming from ‘Stuart’ regarding Joss Whedon and a live-action SAILOR MOON film. Here is what ‘Stuart’ has to say:
Access Hollywood got the chance to talk with a Fox Studios worker in Century City, who revealed that one of the major movie studios is looking to quickly sign Joss Whedon as the director of the Sailor Moon live action movie, now that he is free from the Wonder Woman big screen adaptation. Also, a list of unconfirmed actresses attached to the movie that the studio has already contacted for main roles.
About a year ago, rumors said that Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) was attached to direct the live action version of the popular anime “Sailor Moon” after doing Wonder Woman.Now that Whedon is off the WW project it’s likely that he will take on the Sailor Moon movie right away, or at least that’s what Fox wants.
When the Sailor Moon movie was reported last year, Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Garner were both set to play starring roles, but both now dropped out. This time new casting announcements include; Maggie Grace, Julie Gonzalo, Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, Danielle Panabaker, A.J. Cook, Rachel Blanchard, Mischa Barton, Deanna Casaluce, Amanda Righetti, Elisa Donovan and Emma Caulfield.
The plot will be a complete new story based on Naoko Takeuchi’s (Sailor Moon creator) unreleased material.Whedon is also developing a horror movie called “Goner”.
Here is an unconfirmed list of actresses and the characters they are supposed to play:
Mischa Barton ————–Sailor Moon

Alexis Bledel ————— Sailor Mercury

Julie Gonzalo ————– Sailor Venus

Amber Tamblyn ————Sailor Jupiter

Deanna Casaluce ——— Sailor Mars

Danielle Panabaker——- Sailor Neptune

Maggie Grace ————– Sailor Uranus

A.J. Cook, Elisa Donovan, Amanda Righetti, Emma Caulfield and Rachel Blanchard would play the main villains."

1 comment:

Octopunk said...

This is a bit weird since Sailor Moon is like the My Pretty Pony of Japanese cartoons. There's fighting, I think, but there's lots more twinkly lights and smiling and happy feelings.

Given the source material, this project isn't all that intriguing. EXCEPT that it's going to star a slew of total hotties in funny little schoolgirly outfits. Oh, and Joss Whedon's involved.

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