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Tiger & Bunny Live-Action Film Taps Writer Ellen Shanman

Written By Samantha Ferreira August 11, 2016

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The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog revealed that Ellen Shanman was hired to write the script for the Hollywood adaptation of Tiger & Bunny.

Shanman is a novelist, whose works include Right Before Your Eyes and Everything Nice. She penned the film adaptation Everything Nice for Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah Productions. She also adapted Falling Out of Fashion for the silver screen, which will be produced under the title Liv, and young-adult super hero novel The Brokenhearted.

Producer Ron Howard commented on the news, stating:

As we move forward in developing the wonderful Tiger & Bunny film, we are delighted to add a true rising star in Ellen Shanman to bring the story and characters to life […] Ellen’s strong, visionary, creative voice is a perfect match to adapt this wildly popular story for new audiences.

All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW) is co-producing Tiger & Bunny with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment. Howard and Grazer, as well as ANEW CEO Sandy Climan, ANEW’s Annmarie Bailey, and Bandai Namco Pictures’s Masayuki Ozaki are attached to the project as producers.

Viz Media currently holds the rights to the Tiger & Bunny anime and manga in North America.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Filed Under: News Reporting

Tag(s): live action, staffing, tiger & bunny

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Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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