The revolution shall live on, through the actions of noble few.

Earlier today, the official Code Geass website updated with new details on upcoming film Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection. A new trailer, as well as six cast members were revealed for the project. We break the details down below.

Trailer

The 30-second teaser cuts between several sequences, as a sweeping orchestral score plays in the background. A narrator sets the scene with the major plot details.

Cast

The film will star the following:

C.C.: Yukana
Suzaku Kururugi: Takahiro Sakurai
Nunnally Lamperouge: Kaori Nazuka
Shario: Ayumu Murase
Shesutaru: Nobunaga Shimazaki
Bituru: Wataru Takagi

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection opens on February 9, 2019.

Goro Taniguchi (Gun x Sword, Planetes) will direct the film at Sunrise, with Takahiro Kimura (Dirty Pair Flash, SD Gundam Force) providing character designs. Ichiro Okouchi (Azumanga Daioh, Guilty Crown) is writing the movie’s script.

Other confirmed crew members include:

Music: Kotaro Nakagawa
Mechanical Design/Concept Design: Kenji Teraoka
Original Character Design: CLAMP
Original Knightmare Frame Design Concept: Akira Yasuda
Knightmare Frame Design: Eiji Nakada
Main Animator: Eiji Nakada
Main Animator: Seiichi Nakatani
Main Animator: Takahiro Kimura
Main Animator: Yuriko Chiba
Art Director: Yoshinori Hishinuma
Color Key: Akiko Shibata
Director of Photography: Hiroyuki Chiba
Editing: Seiji Morita
Sound Director: Motoi Izawa, Yasuo Uragami
Distribution: Showgate
Production: Sunrise
Production: Code Geass Production Committee

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection was first announced in 2016, at the Code Geass 10th anniversary event in November 2016. The first details were revealed at the end of the third compilation film, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Glorification, which hit Japanese theaters on May 26.

The title will be set several years after Lelouch’s “Zero Requiem” plan. According to the staff, Lelouch will be returning from the original title, not as an alternate-dimension version or a clone (or some other plot contrivance).

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is an original series from Sunrise and manga supergroup CLAMP. The show originally began airing in the fall 2006 broadcast season, and spanned 26 episodes. Several spinoffs and OVAs, as well as sequel series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 have been produced since the show’s run.

Goro Taniguchi (Gun x Sword, Planetes) directed the series, while Takahiro Kimura (Dirty Pair Flash, SD Gundam Force) provided character designs. The team of Ichiro Okouchi (Azumanga Daioh, Guilty Crown) and Hiroyuki Yoshino (Accel World, Macross Frontier) took charge of series composition, with Yoshino serving as assistant to Okouchi.

A compilation trilogy was released, with the final feature hitting cinemas on May 26. The core cast and crew members returned to reprise their roles for the films.

At Anime NYC 2017, Sunrise announced that Funimation currently holds the rights to the features, though details are unknown as of press time.

Sources: Comic Natalie, Animate Times

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