Released by : Fox Animation
ETA: Unknown
Development Status: Awaiting Final Script

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Kabuki is a comic book created by David Mack and in the sixth issue of the comic he announced that he had doen a deal with Fox "I have just closed a deal on the Kabuki Film with a major studio (the same people that brought you Star Wars)." Don't know why he didn't just say Fox! He also indicated that he was involved with developing the movie and the screenplay.

It turned out the deal for Kabuki was actually over at Fox Animation to turn Kabuki into an animated movie. David Mack commented on this as well "Everything is looking very good right now, and, hopefully, we should have everything worked out within a couple of weeks. What we've been discussing would have me writing at least the first draft of the screenplay and then taking some producer or advisory capacity to maintain some level of input and creative control." He also indicated that the movie would amalgamate the two books Kabuki: Circle Of Blood and Skin Deep.

David Mack seemed to be very pleased at having the project over at Fox and he had this to say about that "I'm really excited about the possibilities for the project -- I recently saw Fox's first animated feature, Anastasia, and really enjoyed it. Fox seems to be very concerned about the quality of their projects as well as making sure they're not just putting out knock-offs of Disney movies, which Kabuki most certainly will not be." He also commented on why Kabuki was going to be an animated movie instead of a live action one "When I first thought about it, I saw it as live-action, no doubt. I had signed an option with a live-action team a couple of years ago, and there's just so many control issues in terms of there are so many other people involved. In animation, it's so much simpler and it can be a lot closer to what I've done. Not only that, it can be a lot closer to what the comic book does. It's sort of surreal at times, it pushes the envelope. And they can make every bit of money they put in on it show on the screen."

And then things went quiet on this project for a while and the rights that Fox had taken up lapsed, luckily Fox decided to take them up again and David Mack had this to say about that "Fox had previously bought an eighteen month option from me. That means that for that period of time, they have the exclusive right to develop Kabuki into a film. And we have been doing just that for the last year and a half, the news is that the option time period just expired, and they have renewed the option by buying another 12 months of exclusive rights to develop the film, this is good news because options don't often get renewed. Often, if things aren't completed in the first option period, the studio drops the project."

Rumours then circulated that John Sayles (Lone Star) was involved in the project, David Mack was more reticent about saying anything for that "Due to confidentiality clauses I'm not sure I could comment on his involvement or the Kabuki film stuff that has happened so far. But I'm fascinated that he mentioned it to you."

And that is what we know so far. So the rights got renewed which is a good sign, but no word of a finished script yet, so I guess we have to wait for word of that.

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