{"rewrite":{"id":"r_e367d27f5787da7c28d35b92","clusterId":"c_9713270eb135bf75a54a14f7","slug":"tyrus-pictures-options-noah-of-the-blood-sea-for-live-action-film","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Tyrus Pictures Options Noah Of The Blood Sea For Live-Action Film","summary":"Tyrus Pictures has optioned the film adaptation rights to Yu Satomi's horror manga Noah Of The Blood Sea (Kekkai no Noah) from publisher Takeshobo, with production targeted to start in 2027. Michael Zelman and Hamid Mokhneche will produce for the Los Angeles-based company. Deadline reported the deal on Monday, and Anime News Network relayed it the same day. The manga ran on Takeshobo's Web Comic Gamma site from August 2018 to June 2021, and Takeshobo published a fifth and final compiled volume in June 2021. It follows passengers on a luxury cruise ship who begin to die under mysterious circumstances involving vampires. An English-language edition is planned for North America, and a Taiwanese edition is in development. Mokhneche said a luxury cruise ship, an unnerving atmosphere and a supernatural mythology gave the material what he called cinematic potential.","whyItMatters":"The option puts a completed five-volume horror manga, already translated into German, Italian, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Thai, into an English-language pipeline that did not previously exist for it.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eTakeshobo\u0026#39;s deputy general manager Atsushi Kimura and deputy corporate officer Shin Ogasawara negotiated for the publisher, with Mokhneche handling the deal for Tyrus Pictures. Both Takeshobo executives gave statements to Deadline. Kimura said he and Satomi are eager to see the manga\u0026#39;s visual style move to the screen, and Ogasawara cited Mokhneche\u0026#39;s grasp of the original work in the publisher\u0026#39;s decision to sign.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZelman and Mokhneche launched Tyrus Pictures last year with a plan to produce one to two features a year at budgets between $5 million and $50 million, and Zelman said the company had long wanted a project rooted in Japanese horror. Takeshobo, founded in 1972, publishes Made in Abyss among other titles. The manga\u0026#39;s overseas reach runs through editions in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, South Korea and Thailand.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Noah Of The Blood Sea finished at five volumes in 2021, so Tyrus Pictures is adapting a closed story. The 2027 production target means the manga's vampire cruise has to carry a film with no ongoing serial to draw readers back.","twitterPost":"Noah Of The Blood Sea ended at five volumes in 2021. Tyrus Pictures is adapting a finished manga, so the film has no ongoing serial to build on before its 2027 start.","threadsPost":"Noah Of The Blood Sea finished in June 2021 at five compiled volumes, and Tyrus Pictures is now optioning it for a feature with production eyed for 2027. Adapting a closed manga means the film inherits a complete story but none of the monthly readership that a running serial hands a studio.","newsletterBlurb":"Tyrus Pictures has picked up the film rights to Yu Satomi's vampire-on-a-cruise-ship horror manga Noah Of The Blood Sea, with production aimed at 2027. 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