Warner Bros. Japan introduced on April 2, 2024 that Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue interval manga is getting a live-action movie adaptation, with Gordon Maeda taking the lead position. The movie is scheduled for launch on August 9, 2024.

A teaser trailer and visible have been unveiled to commemorate the announcement.

Blue Period live action film

Forged consists of:

  • Gordon Maeda as Yatora Yaguchi
  • Fumiya Takahashi as Ryuuji Ayukawa
  • Rihito Itagaki as Yotasuke Takahashi
  • Hiyori Sakurada as Maru Mori

Blue interval The live-action movie will likely be directed by Kentaro Hagiwara, who is understood for his work on the movie Tokyo Ghoul film. Reiko Yoshida, who wrote the screenplay for the movie Blue interval anime, will present the screenplay for the movie.

Mangaka Tsubasa Yamaguchi expressed her pleasure in regards to the movie, saying: “After watching the film, I used to be deeply impressed by the issues that could not be expressed within the manga, such because the landscapes that I could not see once I was drawing, the expressions of the characters made by the actors performed and the sense of ‘area’ earlier than they communicate. I felt an actual sense of actuality in each scene of the film ‘Blue Interval’. The forged members spent a whole lot of time practising portray, and once I first noticed them on set, I used to be merely amazed at how their gestures resembled these of artists. Particularly once I met Mr. Maeda, I felt uneasy, as if I had met ‘Yaguchi-kun’, a classmate. It was actually fantastic to entrust this work to director Hagiwara, who from the planning levels had a transparent imaginative and prescient of how this work might be become a movie and all the time strived to current the movie to the viewers. I hope everybody can really feel the eagerness to start out one thing new.

Blue interval is a Japanese manga sequence written and illustrated by Tsubasa Yamaguchi. The sequence has been serialized in Kodansha’s seinen manga journal Month-to-month Afternoon since June 2017 and has been collected into fifteen tankōbon volumes as of November 2023.

As of November 2021, the manga had greater than 4.5 million copies in circulation. In 2020, Blue interval was awarded the forty fourth Kodansha Manga Award within the Common class and the Grand Prize of the thirteenth Manga Taisho Prize.

An anime tv sequence adaptation produced by Seven Arcs aired from October to December 2021.

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