Live Action Adaptation
During the mid-1990s, Walt Disney Pictures optioned the rights with the intent to produce a live-action Star Blazers movie from producer Josh C. Kline. An early draft of the script by Oscar-nominated writer Tab Murphy was leaked on the Internet in the late 1990s. The story was a re-telling of the Season One plot, and followed a ragtag crew of misfits (most of whom are not named after any of the original show's crew) aboard the rebuilt United States battleship Arizona on a mission to save Earth. The project was abandoned by Disney following the departure of David Vogel, Disney's President of Production. In April 2006 it was announced that Benderspink and producer Josh C. Kline had teamed up to make another attempt at creating a live action version of the story, but as of 2012 no movie version has been released by them.
A live-action Space Battleship Yamato movie was released in Japan on December 1, 2010, produced by Toshiaki Nakazawa and Kazuya Hamana.
In February 2011, it was announced that an English-language live action version is again in the works. David Ellison's Skydance Productions is currently in negotiations to acquire the rights. Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, X-Men) has been tapped to write the screenplay, but so far, no dates have been announced.
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