Sword Art Online! Also known as SAO, it is a franchise in
Japan similar to Harry Potter and like Harry Potter, it is a franchise with its
foot in various media. Starting out as a series of books, it became an anime, anime
movies, manga, video games, and now…a live-action television series!
What’s more is that it is going to be an American TV series!
American independent production company Skydance Television just
announced it got the global live-action television rights for the SAO and is
now planning to launch of a live-action television series based on the main SAO
story. Usually, plans like these die in development hell but it seems Skydance
is on the fast-track, especially if the upcoming live-action movies of
Alita: Battle Angel and Ghost in the Shell are successful.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised at this news. A live-action
television series based on a Japanese franchise that is about a group of gamers
trapped in a virtual-reality, massively multi-player online (MMO) world where
they can died for real? Sounds like a stretch, but I hope they can do it and
make it a success.
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