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Onyx Films to Produce Cobra: The Space Pirate

By rdemott2
Created 05/02/2011 - 10:07
files/pictures/picture-35.jpgOnyx Films and Studio 37 are partnering on an adaptation of the Japanese manga COBRA: THE SPACE PIRATE, Variety [1] reports. PIRANHA 3D’s Alexandre Aja is directing.

Onyx's Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam will produce alongside co-producers Alexandra Milchan and Gregory Levasseur, and exec producers Marc Sessego and Andree Cornier.

Aja and Levasseur adapted the tale of a space pirate. The manga already spawned an anime series in Japan.

Production on the $100 million film will begin next spring with summer 2013 targeted for the film’s release.


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[1] http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118036248