‘The Knights of the Zodiac’ and its live-action: we still don’t have a trailer but this one behind the scenes makes us fear the worst

In the San Diego Comic Con 2022Toei Animation was present with its new project of ‘The Knights of the Zodiac’, a movie live action which is scheduled for release sometime in 2023.

including the plans of Sony and Toei aim to have six movies with the franchise. Everything will depend on the response of the box office with the first.

During the weekend, a behind-the-scenes video of the film was presented, in which we could see the preparation in some action scenes. including a Twitter user decided to do an analysis with some screenshots of the film that can reveal some details.

For example, he mentions that the design of the Pegasus armor will be similar to the one we know in the Poseidon arc. In the image where a child Seiya appears, he already has the pendant, so it will not be necessary to fight Cassios to get it as we saw in the Coliseum of the Sanctuary.

The actors confirmed so far are:

  • Mackenyu-Seiya
  • Sean Bean – Alman Kiddo
  • Madison Iseman – Sienna
  • Diego Tinoco – “a mysterious murderer”
  • Famke Janssen
  • Nick Stahl
  • Mark Dacascos

The direction of the film is taken by Tomasz Baginski, having directed 16 films, in addition to being an executive producer of the ‘The Witcher’ series.

Let’s remember that Netflix acquired the license from ‘The Knights of the Zodiac’ to make an animated series that did not have a positive response in its first season. It was recently revealed that the second season will be crunchyroll exclusive with weekly broadcasts.

As data, the case of ‘Dragon Ball Evolution’ is different from the one we currently know, 20th Century Fox took over the project and both Toei Animation and Funimation stated at the time that they were not involved in the live-action adaptation of Goku.

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‘The Knights of the Zodiac’ and its live-action: we still don’t have a trailer but this one behind the scenes makes us fear the worst