Full Metal Panic Headed to the Big Screen

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By: Stephen Schleicher | April 7th, 2009

Mandalay Pictures announced it has snatched the big screen movie rights to the Japanese manga series Full Metal Panic.

The property derives from writer Shoji Gatoh’s series about a teenage anti-terrorist commando named Sousuke Sagara who is given the mission to protect a high-school girl with mystical powers.

Word being passed around is that Zac Efron may play the lead role, meaning the movie could very easily be a live action adaptation instead of animated flick.

via THR

Posted in Anime, Manga, Movies

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2 Responses to “Full Metal Panic Headed to the Big Screen”

Deus257:

April 7, 2009 at 10:26 am

Damn, I liked this show too. I hope to god they decide not too make a film out of it, especially if efron is in the lead role.

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MaximusRift:

April 7, 2009 at 11:53 am

Full Metal Panic! is one of the most fun anime I’ve ever watched. I highly recommend that the MSP crew watch it as I feel that you would enjoy it. However, this being made into an American movie fills me with doubts.

I really would like to see piloted giant robots, but it worries me that this will just be Full Metal Panic! in name only like a certain other film based off an anime. FMP! is a great story that deserves a good treatment and get completely butchered because certain foreign thigs would bother Joe Schmo.

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