All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW) and Japanese partner Nippon Television (Nippon TV) are teaming with Chris and Paul Weitz’s production company Depth Of Field on an English-language remake of the Takashi Miike’s thriller.

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Original Shield Of Straw producer, Nippon TV’s Naoaki Kitajima, will reprise his role alongside Depth Of Field’s Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Dan Balgoyen.

Husband-and-wife team Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt are adapting the screenplay

This is ANEW’s first action film and the third project in active development with Depth Of Field besides horror title Ghost Train and thriller Birthright.

Miike’s 2013 original (Wara No Tate) centres on a team of police officers tasked with protecting an accused killer who has been marked for death by the billionaire grandfather of his latest victim. 

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