Kim Jee-woon to Helm Live-Action ‘Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade’ Movie

Holy. Crap. It’s happening. They may actually be making a live-action adaptation of Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade, the anime by Oshii Mamoru from 1999. Those guys with the red eyes are the elite squad from it. There’s a post on Twitch (via The Film Stage) saying that various “Korean outlets” have been reporting that Korean director Kim Jee-woon will be at the helm of the live-action Wolf Brigade movie. Kim is in the midst of finishing his English-language action film The Last Stand with Schwarzenegger and will apparently be going back to Korea to make the Jin Roh movie, first mentioned in ’09. It will be retitled Inrang instead. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade is an anime set within Mamoru Oshii’s Kerberos saga, an alternate history of a totalitarian Japan about what would happen if Japan lost World War II to Japan’s friends – the Germans. The fascinating story follows …