Movie Make-out

The upcoming Astro Boy CGI animated movie has a teaser trailer up — almost a year before it’ll hit theaters (on October 23, 2009). There’s not much to go by if you’re not too familiar with the character/manga/comics, but the character designs look faithful enough to what I can recall of Tezuka’s stuff.

Directed by David Bowers for Imagi, the studio that made TMNT a far better film than it had any right in being (whether just because it’s the Turtles or because of the film’s relatively low budget); hopefully that quality will carry through to this project as well.

Imagi is still plugging away at a Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets) adaptation. TMNT director Kevin Munroe has made the leap to live-action with Dead of Night, the Dylan Dog adaptation starring Brandon Routh. He may be lined up for something called War Monkeys, as well, for Dark Horse Indie.