“Bloodsucking Darkness,” about a girl with an eating disorder who succumbs to terrible dreams and creepy happenings, is the first story in Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection. It’s teased that this is only one of three planned projects around adapting Ito’s work. We are excited to bring the horror found in the pages of his work to life onto the biggest screens possible.” “The team at Fangoria is honored to be working alongside Junji Ito. “Ito’s stories and visuals are pure nightmare fuel,” said Aghaeian. The combination of fear and feelings is where I always want to be.”Īrmen Aghaeian, who is the senior VP of Fangoria Studios, is producing along with Tara Ansley, Abhi Goel and Amuse Group USA’s Yasu Kutami and Tsubasa Yamaguchi. Howard remarked, “When I found out a live-action Junji Ito adaptation was going to happen, I chased after it with everything I had, because I just couldn’t live with anyone else getting there before me. Howard’s credentials include writing The Haunting of Hill House, co-writing Oculus, and being one of the writers on the Netflix series Midnight Mass. There is no director attached yet, but Jeff Howard is going to executive produce and write the screenplay. I hope I get to see the trailer in my dreams tonight.” “I’m so excited to see how it will turn out. “Fangoria Studios is going to adapt my manga!” he said. Ito shared his excitement about the project. It’s being backed by Fangoria Studios, the recently-made studio that’s an offshoot of the popular Fangoria magazine. Junji Ito’s short story “Bloodsucking Darkness” is being turned into a live-action American feature film, and Ito himself is producing.
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