Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to turn the Japanese action-thriller anime Ninja Scroll into a live-action feature film, Variety reported. Alex Tse has been set to write the script.
The movie will be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, with Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Mike Ireland producing. Appian is mounting the film as a co-production with Mad House.
Scroll, set in feudal Japan, revolves around a ninja for hire who is forced to fight an old enemy who will stop at nothing to overthrow the government. DiCaprio is not planning to act in the film.
Tse's recent credits include the Zack Snyder-directed Watchmen and the adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic SF anthology The Illustrated Man, which Snyder is also planning to direct for Warner.
