Popular Game "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" Set to Come to the Big Screen!

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/...10527.html

Capcom Co., Ltd. (Capcom) is pleased to announce that the popular game, "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney", will be made into a live-action feature film.

In the "Ace Attorney" game series, players take on the role of a defense attorney who fights for the lives of his clients. The first game in the series was released in October 2001, and since then, this popular courtroom battle series has gone on to ship over 4.1 million units worldwide (as of March 31, 2011). This critically acclaimed franchise has also inspired cell phone games, comic books, character-based merchandise, as well as orchestra concerts involving the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and even a stage musical by the Takarazuka Revue.

In the movie, the main protagonist, Phoenix Wright, will be played by Mr. Hiroki Narimiya, while rival prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth, will be played by Mr. Takumi Saito. Pheonix's assistant and spirit medium Maya Fey will be played by Ms. Mirei Kiritani. Mr. Takashi Miike of "Crows Zero" and "Thirteen Assassins" fame will be lending his directorial talents to the film. Production management will be handled by Nippon Television Network Corporation and distribution will be handled by Toho Co., Ltd. The movie is scheduled to be released in early Spring 2012 at all Toho Cinemas nation-wide.

Capcom continues to provide entertainment in the form of movies based on our most popular franchises, such as last November's smash hit "Resident Evil: Afterlife", which broke box-office records for the series. Currently, a full-length CG movie, "Resident Evil: Damnation", is in full production. In addition, the animated "Sengoku BASARA" feature film, "Sengoku BASARA - The Last Party", is scheduled to open on June 4, 2011.

As always, we at Capcom will continue to pursue our "Single content multiple usage" strategy by making advancements on new hardware to maximize sales while leveraging our brands to bring maximum satisfaction to as many of our users as possible.

Live Action??? Not too sure how to react to this. They'll need to do an insanely good job to keep the hammy touch of the games. I'll wait for a trailer of the movie before I start forming an opinion about the movie. Also, shouldn't this be in Entertainment instead of Current Events? It is related to the Phoenix Wright games after all, and is a movie.

Live Action??? Not too sure how to react to this. They'll need to do an insanely good job to keep the hammy touch of the games. I'll wait for a trailer of the movie before I start forming an opinion about the movie. Also, shouldn't this be in Entertainment instead of Current Events? It is related to the Phoenix Wright games after all, and is a movie.

I didn't know where to post, so if a mod want to move it to the right section, feel free to do so.

Actress for Mia better have a huge rack or this movie will suck and not do the games justice.

Oh! Yay, a new CGI Resident Evil. All of the live action ones blew ass but the first CGI one was really good.

Live action = meh.

Call me when they have an anime movie. Professor Layton managed it well, so Ace attorney would be able to get away with it

Live Action??? Not too sure how to react to this. They'll need to do an insanely good job to keep the hammy touch of the games. I'll wait for a trailer of the movie before I start forming an opinion about the movie.

They already had an opera, so it's not like AA never got the "real life" treatment before.

Live action = meh.

Call me when they have an anime movie. Professor Layton and managed it well, so Ace attorney would be able to get away with it

I was thinking the same thing. The Layton x Phoenix Wright game may be the closest we ever get to that though.

I was thinking the same thing. The Layton x Phoenix Wright game may be the closest we ever get to that though.

Which is assuming we even get that. I have no doubt level 5 will release every solo layton game (Since they actually sell far more copies to europe than America and Japan combined, and the sales in those 2 regions are still very good), but since capcom seems to think aceattorney has no place outside of japan anymore (which is thier own damn fault, games that you don't advertise at all don't sell? Who would have thought it!) , and releasing Layton vs Ace attorney would require finding someone to voice Phoenix and Maya in english (Which will recieve backlash no matter who they choose), I don't know...