TV: Monster

"HBO and Guillermo del Toro are teaming on Monster, developing a potential series culled from a series of 18 volumes of Japanese Manga by author Naoki Urasawa"
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"Del Toro will co-write the story with Steven Thompson, best known for his work on Dr. Who andSherlock. Thompson will write the pilot, which del Toro intends to direct."
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"Del Toro will be executive producer and Thompson co-executive producer, with Angry Films’ partners Don Murphy and Susan Montford executive producing with Exile’s Gary Ungar. Shogakukan will be consulting producer."

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/guil...series-at-hbo/

Just when I thought HBO couldn't get any better....

Dear god. Normally I would hope they dont botch this up, but Del Toro is co-writing the story this might be the next best thing on HBO after GoT.

Really?

With this and Pacific Rim, I think it's pretty much confirmed that del Toro loves anime/manga at least as much, or even more than us.

It's freaking amazing that he's westernizing this stuff, and westernizing it RIGHT.