Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable manga is going to be adapted into a live-action film, as announced in a press conference of TOHO and Warner Brothers. The two companies will collaborate together for the first time to produce the film, which will be titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond wa Kudakenai Dai-Ichi-Shō (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I). The film will open in Japan in summer 2017.

The direction will be handled by the filmmaker Takashi Miike (live-action Terraformars, Ace Attorney, Crows Zero, Yatterman, For Love's Sake, Ichi the Killer), and the cast will include:

• Kento Yamazaki (Orange, Your Lie in April, Heroine Shikkaku, Wolf Girl and Black Prince, live-action Death Note television) as Jōsuke Higashikata
• Ryunosuke Kamiki (Howl's Moving Castle, The Secret World of Arrietty, Bakuman., Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno) as Kōichi Hirose
• Nana Komatsu (Bakuman., Kin Kyori Renai, World of Kanako) as Yukako Yamagishi
• Masaki Okada (Hana-Kimi, Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu, Otomen, Mahō Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto, Space Brothers) as Keichō Nijimura
• Mackenyu (Chihayafuru) as Okuyasu Nijimura
• Takayuki Yamada (Bakuman., Terraformars, Crows Zero, Gantz) as Anjūrō Katagiri
• Yusuke Iseya (Casshern, Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno, Shinjuku Swan, Honey and Clover) as Jōtarō Kūjō
• Alisa Mizuki (Doraemon: Nobita no Space Heroes) as Tomoko Higashikata
• Jun Kunimura (Attack on Titan, Chihayafuru, The Wind Rises, Ichi the Killer) as Ryōhei Higashikata

The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable is the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. Araki launched the manga in 1992 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and it was completed in 1995. The first part of the manga was adapted into an anime in 2012, followed by the other parts. Currently, the Diamond is Unbreakable anime series is running, which premiered on April 1, 2016.

Source: animenewsnetwork.com