Justin Lin set to direct ‘One Punch Man’ Movie adaptation

Filmmaker Justin Lin is affixed to route a future film adaptation of the preferred manga ‘One Punch Man’.
Lin will certainly route the movie based on a script from ‘Venom’ as well as ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ film writers Scott Rosenberg and also Jeff Pinkner.

‘One Punch Man’ will certainly be Lin’s initial task adhering to the news this April that he left directing ‘Fast X’, the current movie in the ‘Fast as well as Furious’ franchise.

He ‘d previously guided four movies for the franchise business, starting with 2006’s ‘Tokyo Drift’, as well as also helmed the 2018 movie ‘Star Trek Beyond’.
Created by Japanese artist ONE as a webcomic in 2009, ‘One Punch Man’ focuses on Saitama, a standard, out of work male who educates to end up being a superhero, and also creates the capacity to defeat any kind of opponent– regardless of how powerful– with a single punch.

Saitama’s incredible power comes with the cost of any kind of genuine exhilaration in his life, which causes him to come to be bored and also passive also as he consistently conserves the world from amazing risk. The collection complies with Saitama as he joins the Hero Association, which utilizes superhumans to eliminate wicked, in the hope of locating an adversary that can finally position a real challenge to him.

After its launching in 2009, ‘One Punch Man’ went viral and received a remake in manga layout in the Japanese magazine Shueisha’s Tonari no Young Jump Next, with pictures by Yusuke Murata. The manga has verified incredibly prominent, with over 30 million copies marketed worldwide.

Considering that 2015, Viz Media has actually published an English translation of the manga, which made the New York Times bestsellers checklist.

The manga has actually already been adapted into an anime series created initially by Madhouse in 2015, after that by J.C.Staff in 2019, and also it just recently motivated a video game adaptation for console and mobile phones. The manga has actually been acclaimed for its unusual feeling of humour and sendup of usual superhero tropes, getting nominations for an Eisner Award in 2015 as well as a Harvey Award in 2016.