Our friends at FirstShowing.net got the chance to interview AstroBoy director Colin Brady, and were given an exclusive look at concept art from the upcoming computer animated film (as seen above, check FS.net for more). Brady reveals that the film will be an origin story using “a mix of popular American and Japanese actors”, and that Imagi is shooting for “as hard PG as we can.”
Hard PG? Never heard that before. Brady claims that the robot violence lets them get away with more than “humans fighting each other with guns.” Brady seems to be saying all the right things to get me excited about the project:
“We’re trying to create a [...]

Imagi Animation Studios, the guys responsible for the recent computer animated TMNT film, are making a big screen computer animated adaptation of AstroBoy and Gatchaman. I know, I know - this is not anything new, but today the folks at Imagi have released a cool high resolution still from the upcoming AstroBoy movie. Our friends at FirstShowing got their hands on the still, seen above.
It originated as a manga in 1951 by Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka, who is often reputed as the “god of manga” The manga spawned an anime television show which was first broadcast in Japan from 1963 to 1966. After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was [...]