Live-Action Saint Seiya Adaptation Casts Mackenyu, Madison Iseman, And Sean Bean
Toei Animation and Sony have announced some of the cast members for the upcoming Knights of the Zodiac.
This is a live-action film adaptation of a 1986 manga and anime series created by Masami Kurumada titled Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac.
Pacific Rim: Uprising actor Mackenyu and Madison Iseman are leading the cast of Knights of the Zodiac, a live-action adaptation of the 1980s manga and anime series titled Saint Seiya being made by Toei Animation and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.
Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, Nick Stahl, Diego Tinoco and Mark Dacascos are also in the firmament of the fantasy that’s coming off of wrapping production.
Tomasz Baginski, the Polish animator and special effects wiz who has worked on The Witcher, is directing the movie that Toei is producing.
Toei, which was behind the anime that ran from 1986 to 1989, will distribute in Japan, with SPWA handling the rest of the world, excluding China and the Middle East.
Mackenyu, the son of international martial arts actor Sonny Chiba, who has made a slew of popular manga adaptations in Japan, is repped by Buchwald and Asian Cinema Entertainment.
Iseman, repped by Paradigm, Zero Gravity and Morris Yorn, appeared in the recent Jumanji movies and is one of the stars of the I Know What You Did Last Summer TV series.
