{"rewrite":{"id":"r_afe198ae8ee6493f084e2826","clusterId":"c_04f75beb8d7b8b8935b1bb12","slug":"live-action-lollipop-chainsaw-film-announced-at-tokyo-game-show","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Live-Action Lollipop Chainsaw Film Announced At Tokyo Game Show","summary":"The livestreamed Lollipop Chainsaw New Project presentation at Tokyo Game Show announced on Saturday that the franchise is being adapted into a film. Ambitious Entertainment producer Kirk Shaw and ZDF Studios' former vice president of drama Robert Franke are producing, and both expressed intent to make a Hollywood film for worldwide audiences. Nada Holdings founder Joe Teng described the film as live-action and separate from previously announced anime plans.","whyItMatters":"The franchise is now running three separate tracks at once, a sequel game, an anime, and a Western-facing live-action film, and the producers are naming Hollywood and worldwide audiences as the target rather than Japan.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eDeadline later added three more names to the production side: Throne Inc. managing director Takafumi Yuki and Non Stop TV president Patricio Rabuffetti, alongside Shaw, Franke, and Teng. The reveal came in the same Tokyo Game Show presentation that carried the game news, which puts the film and the software on one stage rather than two separate campaigns.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNada Holdings and Dragami Games also used the stream to confirm Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back for PlayStation 5 in 2027, directed by Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata, with JP Universe developing and original game writer Masahiro Yuki returning to the script.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Lollipop Chainsaw is getting a live-action film. The TGS stream named Kirk Shaw and Robert Franke as producers, with Joe Teng calling it separate from the anime plans. The same presentation confirmed the sequel game for PS5 in 2027.","twitterPost":"Live-action Lollipop Chainsaw film announced at Tokyo Game Show. Kirk Shaw and Robert Franke produce; Joe Teng says it is separate from the anime plans. The same stream confirmed Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back for PS5 in 2027.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Tokyo Game Show's Lollipop Chainsaw presentation announced a live-action film, produced by Kirk Shaw and ZDF Studios' former drama VP Robert Franke, with Nada Holdings founder Joe Teng calling it separate from the anime plans announced in July 2025. Deadline added Takafumi Yuki and Patricio Rabuffetti to the producing group. The same stream confirmed Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back for PlayStation 5 in 2027, directed by Hajime Tabata.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-18/live-action-lollipop-chainsaw-film-announced/.241960\",\"title\":\"Live-Action Lollipop Chainsaw Film Announced\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4580,"outputTokens":643,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789786762,"createdAt":"2026-09-19T02:53:30.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-19T02:58:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-19T02:58:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_04f75beb8d7b8b8935b1bb12","canonicalTitle":"News\nLive-Action Lollipop Chainsaw Film Announced","representativeArticleId":"a_787eaa6a039bb1a6d35a6e17","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Lollipop Chainsaw\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Kirk Shaw\",\"Robert Franke\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-19T01:33:05.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-19T01:33:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-19T02:58:21.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-18/live-action-lollipop-chainsaw-film-announced/.241960","title":"News\nLive-Action Lollipop Chainsaw Film Announced"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Lollipop Chainsaw"],"studios":[],"people":["Kirk Shaw","Robert Franke"],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}