Japanese manga "Wicked City" is to being remade as a live-action English-language feature by Germany's Stallion Film with "Spawn" helmer Mark Dippe directing reports Superhero Hype.
The sci-fi/action tale deals with beasts from a parallel dimension and a secret resistance organization trying to prevent the apocalypse. The $50 million-$60 million budget project will lense early next year.
The original books by Hideyuki Kikuchi, bestsellers in the early 1980s, were adapted as the anime series "Yoju toshi" by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Dippe and Johnny Hartmann are penning the screenplay.
