Last night I brought you allthe chilling newsthat Paul W.S. Anderson would be directing the film adaptation ofSpy Hunter, the finest video game based on a Peter Gunn theme song in the history of man. As suicide rates skyrocketed amongSpy Hunter’slegion of fans (for theytrulyare legion), Christophe Gans took it upon his vaguely effeminate French shoulders to embiggen the spirits of game-to-movie-adaptation fans all over the world withthe newsthat his film, the upcoming theatrical version of Capcom’sOnimushaseries, would feature Takeshi Kaneshiro as the eponymous samurai.
Why is this news so awesome as to cause me to use a word like eponymous? Other than the fact that he happens to be cooler than Andre 3000 and George Pattoncombined, Mr. Kaneshiro just so happens to have been the basis for the lead character in the series in the first place. Not only has each iteration of the character in the various games been modeled after him, but the voice work for said characters has also been contributed by Kaneshiro. Aside from resurrecting the corpse of Shimazu Yoshihisa, it simply doesn’t get any more authentic than that.
