LONE WOLF AND CUB finds master

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2003
Source: Variety

Director Darren Aronofsky has been selected to direct the feature film version of LONE WOLF AND CUB, an adaptation of the Japanese graphic novel of the same title. The series of LONE WOLF graphic novels have been translated and published domestically by Dark Horse Comics.

Aronofsky, the director of PI and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, will oversee the development of the movie. He is knowledgable with comic books, having spent two years working on a BATMAN: YEAR ONE movie as well as a version of RONIN, based on the Frank Miller comic book, before both projects collapsed back into development hell.

The LONE WOLF series is about a 17th century samurai who now must bring is young son with him wherever he goes, since his wife has been killed. The samurai crisscrosses Japan working as a ronin, a masterless samurai, attempting to seek revenge and regain his family's honor. The characters were created by Kazuo Koike.


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