Story once meant for Tarantino production
Japanese production company Kaiju Theater, along with its production and distribution partner Asmik Ace Entertainment, has wrapped the tentatively titled Tesuo Project.
The new film is directed by original Tetsuo the Iron Man helmer Shinya Tsukamoto and is expected to be completed later this year. Asmik Ace will introduce the project to the industry at Cannes.
2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Tetsuo franchise.
This latest tale will center on an ordinary American businessman living in Tokyo with his Japanese wife and a three-year-old son, changes forever after a sudden tragedy. His extreme anger turns his body metallic to fight at a ultra-fast speed against a mysterious evil in the dynamically-changing city of Tokyo.
After the international success of the first two Tetsuo films – which also includes Tetsuo II: Body Hammer – Tsukamoto was offered by Quentin Tarantino to write a new version of Tetsuo set in the United States, to be produced by Tarantino. The project, then called Tetsuo America, was never produced due to Tsukamoto’s creative uncertainty of whether his concept and character of the franchise would be set and work in the vast continent of America.
Recently Tsukamoto revisited the plot he had wrote for Tarantino, and decided to write and direct the script based on it, but this time set in Tokyo. The English-language project is now in post-production. Tsukamoto also acts in the film starring opposite Eric Bossick who plays the title role.
Source: Asmik Ace Entertainment
