Mexican commercial directors Jorge and Javier Aguilera known as Big Brother have been tapped to helm the live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime, KITE, reports VARIETY. Rob Cohen and Anant Singh are producing.
Singh and Brian Cox will produce for Singh's Distant Horizon. Cohen and Marc Pitre will produce for Cohen's Nowita Pictures. Joshua Rubin is penning the script.
The story follows a young woman, whose parents have been murdered, who is taken in by a corrupt detective who uses homeless kids to do assassinate people. Eventually, the young woman turns her vengeance on the cop. The live-action version will take place in a not-to-distant future where a police state has grown out of exaggerated fears of terrorism.
Yasuomi Umetsu created the original anime.
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