In a recent interview with Crunchyroll, Gantz creator Hiroya Oku was asked about further anime adaptations for the series, leading to him providing quite a response as apparently he has been barred from making new anime due to a Hollywood company having the rights to the series for a Hollywood remake.
When asked about the Gantz Hollywood remake, Oku explained the situation regarding anime adaptations of Gantz in general, and how “a Hollywood company” has all the rights for at least four more years:
Harding: How about the Hollywood remake? You did reply back to such a rumor on Twitter with a shushing face emoji teaser.
Oku: (Laughs) Yeah, I can’t talk about all the details on that subject, but a Hollywood company does have the rights to adapt GANTZ at the moment, and unless they return us the rights, we won’t be able to make either an anime or live-action adaptation of the manga. That’s the Hollywood type of contract; they own all the adaptations including anime and live-action, except for manga.
There is another spinoff called GANTZ:E that is currently being serialized in Young Jump (illustrated by Jin Kagetsu) right now, which has been allowed to be made by the producers [as it’s a manga], though an anime adaptation of that spinoff won’t be. It’s becoming such a pain, to be honest.
Harding: How long will they retain the rights?
Oku: About four more years, I think. We just made a contract last year (Note: in 2020). I haven’t been updated about how the Hollywood adaptation is going or whether it will actually be made. It’s likely COVID-19 has paused a lot of new projects over there, and GANTZ is probably one of them. If that’s the case, I’d like to have the rights back.
While it wasn’t disclosed which Hollywood company has been holding the rights for Gantz, Japanese fans are just as frustrated by lackluster Hollywood anime adaptations as the West.
The topic of manga outselling comics in the West was also briefly touched upon, and Oku made his opinion on that matter very clear:
Harding: When I told my editor at Crunchyroll that we were going to interview you, he got extremely excited. The whole office did. In my eyes, why wouldn’t your works be popular in the West when mature series such as Game of Thrones and Westworld are loved by a huge audience?
Oku: Really, you think so?
Harding: Well, manga is now outselling American comic books in the US [by volume].
Oku: I saw so many people talking about that on the internet. I also read a criticizing tweet about how much American comics have to care about political correctness and copyrights, while manga doesn’t … (laughs)
Isn’t it stupid to give the rights to make anime to some Americunts?
Murican Scam contracts will offer a big sum of money usually, but they will control all your content & your creative freedom with it. Look at what happened to the Netflix series of Avatar.
jews. JEWS. Be more precise you fucking assholes. Jews do the crime and everyone else takes the fucking fall it has to stop.
You could try reading the contract before signing it. In these types of transactions there are typically multiple levels with increasing monetary compensation. If you sell sll your rights you don’t then get to complain.
the large sum of money is the only thing that matters
it is not stupid to have an economic income, you idiots who talk but do not understand anything
yah we’re idiots that dont understand nothing… but the high qi ones lose their rights for americunts.
I bet it’s Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. which is “technically” an American company.
Japanese company, American company… all prostrating themselves for China bucks.
He said he signed a contract in 2020. The first season of gantz has been made into anime in 2004, then basically nothing new happened. They had 16 years to make something out of gantz and now it’s “held off” by hollywood company, talk about lame excuses. There are plenty of other old series but nobody wants to continue them or make them into anime and it has nothing to do with americans. I will take a shitty hollywood remake over nothing.
Did you forget about Gantz:O (2016)? It wasn’t even a bad movie.
So you enjoy consuming feces?
Yeah, let’s see Hollywood adapt the Shinjuku massacre chapters. I’m sure there wouldn’t be any blow back from BLM or the rest of the authoritarian left.
Of course, who are we kidding? If Hollywood does make a “Gantz” movie, it will take place in California. The entire cast will be “diverse” and Kei will be a trans-man. It will be a Gantz movie in name only.
there is a live of Japanese gantz, there is nothing wrong with changing the setting and characters
Please try to say kek kek like a toad while having my cock in your mouth, that would sound hilariously erotic and would make me shoot tons of cum until you choke.
Funny how you talk about bending over when you just took that microdick up your ass about all that dumb s♥♥t you just spewed.
like why the f♥♥k would they even think that was a good idea?
they basically did the same s♥♥t sony did ….
fucking retarded
They’ll always fall for the big lump of money in the end for the price of them completely controlling the content.
Its like if i were to offer you $100 million but i will control your life & what you do. Many more series probably got offered up but we don’t hear about it because it was eventually rejected like all the Anime shows should be doing to save Anime.
Oh goddammit, the Jewed remake is gonna be dog s♥♥t so they should give the rights back. Kikes really ruin everything.
The media jew is a wicked babyraping scum of the earth, but it is ultimately the jap that sold out here
More like the greedy con artist scam type of contract