Masao Maruyama, the co-founder of the Madhouse anime studio, revealed at his Otakon 2008 panel today that his company is still working on plans for a sequel to the Ninja Scroll action anime film. However, he noted that Ninja Scroll 2 project still needs a script that is acceptable to himself and franchise creator Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
The original movie opened in Japan in 1993, and Manga Entertainment released it in North America and other areas. Madhouse has since created a 2003 spinoff television series that Urban Vision licensed for overseas distribution. The American publisher WildStorm created its comic book take on the story in 2006.
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NINJA SCROLL 2 ANIME AND LIVE ACTION IN THE WORKS.
Madhouse is still working on Ninja Scroll anime sequel,but
the company is still working on the script and there is also
a talks of the live action film.
Threshold Entertainment has bought the rights to Ninja Scroll from Madhouse back in 2002 but the project is still in development,Larry Kasanoff will produce Ninja Scroll with fellow Threshold producers Josh Wexler,Alison Savitch,
and the Yoshiaki Kawajiri crew will produce and co write the script,
Sean Catherine Derek and Josh Wexler will write the script
while John Medlen and Chris Leps will do the stunts,Jon Sloate and Ben Watkins will do the music and Alison Savitch and George Johnsen alone with Threshold digital research labs will do the visual effects for the film.
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BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA
I always considered the TV series a bit of a sequel, since it was semi-obvious that Jubei and the Monk knew each other from the original movie.