A live-action version of "Guranburu," a coming-of-age comic that has sold more than 4.4 million copies, is scheduled to be released in early summer 2020! The film is scheduled to open in early summer of 2020!

Warner Bros. Pictures announced that on November 20, 2019, it will adapt the coming-of-age comic "Guranburu" into a live-action film. The film is scheduled to be released nationwide in early summer 2020.

Guranburu" is a coming-of-age manga about scuba diving, written by Kenji Inoue of "Baka to Test to Summoneru" (Famitsu Bunko) and drawn by Kimitake Yoshioka, who has also done comic book adaptations of "Ao Hearse no Lapis Lazuli" and "Kanjo Brilliant Park". (Kodansha) since 2014, and an anime adaptation was released in July 2018.

⇒Outline of TV anime "Guranburu

Image of the original story

The story begins when the main character, Iori Kitahara, moves to a seaside town for college. Iori moves in with her uncle who runs a diving store called "GRAND BLUE". Iori is looking forward to the beautiful sea and cute childhood friends. What awaits Iori, who is filled with anticipation for the campus life she longs for, is a diving club full of men? The original work, which is rumored to have half of the scenes in which Iori is not wearing any clothes, sold a total of 4.4 million copies in its 14th volume, which was released on November 22, 2019.

Inoue, who is working on the original story, said, "My pure and innocent dream that I have had since the conception stage of "Guranburu" - a big dream that every writer who writes a serial in a youth magazine has. The time is finally coming for it to come true." He expressed his joy at the live-action adaptation.

■Summary of the Film Adaptation

Director Tsutomu Hanabusa will take the megaphone for this film. After making a strong comedy debut with his debut film "The Handsome Suit," he went on to produce a wide range of entertainment films, including "High School Debut" and "Sadako 3D," and his 2015 film "Heroine Shikkaku" grossed over 24 million yen at the box office.

Now that filming is over, director Ei says, "I was going to make a movie called 'Boys are stupid! Really stupid! Scum! But it turned out to be a movie about 'boys are idiots! He revealed that the content of the movie is as wild as the original story. Some fans who are anticipating the movie have already asked, "Is there a theory that Guranbulu will be made into a movie? Some fans who are expecting a film adaptation have already voiced their confidence in the film's hazy tone.

Mr. Daisuke Sekiguchi, executive producer of the film adaptation, stated, "The reason why there are so many Japanese films with similar themes these days is because there is a trend toward 'the type of film that customers like,' and production is based on their best expectations," before adding, "The overwhelming sense of foreignness, overwhelming silliness, and overwhelmingly silliness, and overwhelmingly hot and bothered men. ...... I fell deeply in love with this overwhelming lack of deja vu, and it is precisely because we live in an era of research at its height that I wanted to make a film of this work that cannot be measured by numbers," he said, confessing that he decided to make the film because of its one-of-a-kind presence.

In this release, only the names of the director and executive producer of the live-action film have been revealed. The cast, storyline, staff, and other information will be announced in the coming weeks.

Production schedule
July 2019: Crank-in
October 2019: Crank up
March 2020: Film to be completed
Early summer 2020: Scheduled for nationwide release

Film information
Guranburu" (Kodansha Afternoon KC)
Original story: Kenji Inoue, Kimitake Yoshioka
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
Executive Producer: Daisuke Sekiguchi
Production: THEFOOL
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

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