TOKYO, JAPAN—Toei Company, Ltd. announced today that a new film series based on the long-running Golgo 13 manga is in pre-production, with the first movie scheduled to hit theaters in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Toei released a press statement on their website explaining the search for a director is underway, but the eponymous role of amoral womanizer and assassin Duke Togo, aka Golgo 13, has been given to child actor Seishiro Kato, pictured right.
The announcement, hot on the heels of reports Jun Matsumoto will star in a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure movie, is believed to be a case of strategic one-upmanship, with Toei competitively trying to outdo the horrible casting decisions of other Japanese movie studios.
Blog of the North Star could not reach Kato for comment. As his agent explained, he was put to bed early by his parents for not finishing his dinner.
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