The upcoming movie adaptation of ultimate dark fantasy manga Berserk was recently confirmed as being comprised of a trilogy covering the manga’s “golden age” section, and the first trailer has also been released.
The trailer:
The first movie is to be released to cinemas in January of 2012.
Berserk mangaka Kentaro Miura even tore himself away from his Xbox 360 for long enough to comment:
I never expected to be blessed with another chance at a video adaptation. The old anime version of Berserk was where we received our first widespread recognition. 14 years on, I think the new movie will be greeted as a perfection of that vision by fans and movie watchers alike.
14 years ago my skills were crude, and I was franticly working to keep the serialisation going (don’t say anything!). Added to that, back then Japan had no Amazon and hardly any Internet – for a rookie mangaka there was virtually no way to get details on medieval armour and history. I used my “Excalibur” movie pamphlet until it was ragged.
Times have moved on – now we are in the information age, and we have CG as well! I’m confident that this time around the movie will attain levels of visual accomplishment I could never have achieved back then.
Expect a quality Hollywood remake sometime in the next decade…
Gave me the fucking chills.
am a bit more afraid that it comes out in 2012
Wonder if we’ll get to see the berzerk armor animated at some point… more epic than epic itself, that.
Sadly, it looks like s♥♥t. Poor manga, it will never get the anime it deserves.
Way too much computer if you ask me… why do even the movies with high budgets nowadays tend to have that many CG-effects built in? The manga is of such high quality and detailed like hell but this is just cheap like the Fate/Stay Night movie that came out this year.
Even the regular movements of the characters seem way too fluctional and thus reek of heavy computer usage,too. Where are the 80’s and 90’s where the animation was good enough while mainly painted by hand?
it’s fate/stay night. What would you expect on that garbage.
This is bagserk and hell would they pour time on this.