Knights of the Zodiac’s First Trailer Brings the Action

Though we pretty not too long ago had a stay motion adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, it nonetheless feels prefer it’s been awhile since there’s been an enormous live-action adaptation of a beloved anime to be watched. Plenty have been introduced, to be truthful, however a number of of them are fairly a methods off, in the event that they ever get made in any respect. Fortunately (?), we’re because of get a live-action Knights of the Zodiac film in 2023, and its first trailer not too long ago debuted.

Like different current fantasy franchises, Knights of the Zodiac incorporates facets of Greek mythology into its overarching plot. In this case, it’s the Greek goddess Athena being locked right into a centuries-long warfare with different members of her household from the Olympian pantheon, who’re all trying to dominate the planet. When Athena is reincarnated into the physique of a younger woman named Sienna (Madison Iseman), it falls on avenue orphan Seiya (Mackenyu) to make use of his newly unlocked Cosmo energy to seek out the Pegasus Armor to maintain her protected. Naturally, the one solution to do each is to kick ass and take names together with his fists and mystic powers, all whereas assembly different potential allies or enemies which may be trying to kill Athena.

Zodiac relies on the 1986 manga by Masami Kurumada, which has since grown into its personal franchise and one of many best-selling manga sequence. Though its final film was all the way in which again in 2014, it’s had a extra constant run of animated sequence. The most up-to-date sequence was the CG present Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya, which aired on Netflix and wrapped up this previous October.

Directed by The Witcher’s Tomasz Bagiński, Knights of the Zodiac additionally stars Famke Janssen, Mark Dacascos, and Sean Bean.

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