Gantz Live-Action Movie Coming From Overlord Director Julius Avery
Julius Averyhas been set to direct a live action adaptation of theGantzmanga series for Sony Pictures. Based on the manga series written and illustrated byHiroya Oku,Gantzdebuted in 2000 and ran until 2013, capping out at a total of 37 volumes. There was an anime adaptation of the series that ran for two seasons in 2004 and a CGI film calledGantz: 0was made in 2016. The series tells the story of high school students Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, who after dying in a train accident, find themselves a part of a semi-posthumous “game” in which they along with a number of other recently deceased people, are forced to hunt down and kill aliens armed to the teeth in all sorts of futuristic technology, weapons, and items....