Coming from Hollywood Reporter and ComingSoon.net reports of the famed Japanese superhero, Ultraman, getting the American reboot treatment. The article states that the U.S. transmedia producer Starlight Runner Entertainment was enlisted by Tsuburaya Productions to make a live-action series in America. Ultraman first started out in 1966 with the TV series, Ultra 6, and the franchise is one of the longer running series with 34 shows, 30 movies, and 50 video game appearances.
Starlight Runner Entertainment worked on many movies and TV brands such as Avatar, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Men In Black, Halo, and Pirates Of The Caribbean.
With this and the upcoming Ultraman anime series coming to Netflix, it makes me wonder if Tsuburaya Productions is testing the waters for any audience for this franchise outside Japan. Perhaps if it has a big audience then there could be a possibility for an American made movie. How this new rebooted series is being handled is up in the air. They could go the Power Rangers route where it's the typical man in a suit or perhaps some other way.
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