Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop) is reuniting with Paramount Pictures for a live-action movie based upon Takara Tomy’s Beyblade franchise.
Launching in Japan in 1999 as a line of spinning-top toys with a tie-in manga, Beyblade received an anime TV series adaptation in 2001, which was followed by several sequels and spinoffs that now total over 700 episodes and counting. The toys themselves have been licensed around the world, selling hundreds of millions of units.
Details on the live-action movie are being kept under wraps, but the script is being written by Neil Widener and Gavin James, whose previous credits include the as-yet-unproduced San Andreas 2 and Now You See Me 3 as well as a planned Hourman movie for Warner Bros. and DC Films.
Before we get to Beyblade, Bruckheimer and Paramount still have Top Gun: Maverick to release, with the long-delayed Tom Cruise sequel currently set to open in May of this year, having been pushed back several times from its original July 2019 date.
Via Deadline
