Justin Lin of the Fast and Furious films was identified as a possible director, with Andrew Kevin Walker - a scriptwriter on Seven, Sleepy Hollow, and 8MM among others - attached to write. In October 2017, The Hollywood Reporter said that Paramount would be producing the newest adaptation of Lone Wolf and Cub. In more recent years, it looks like whatever rights complications held up Aronofsky were cleared for a new creative team. By 2009, Aronofsky was saying that the project had gone belly-up, mainly because of rights issues. It was one of a number comic book movies Aronofsky wanted to adapt, including scrapped plans for Batma n: Year Oneand Ronin, the latter of which was strongly influenced by Lone Wolf and Cub. After Daigoro collapses from fatigue and despair, the samurai Togo Shigetada finds him and takes him under his wing.ĭarren Aronofsky, perhaps best known for 1998's Pi and 2000's Requiem for a Dream, was reportedly pursuing a new adaptation of the samurai epic as early as early as 2003, according to Entertainment Weekly. New Lone Wolf and Cub opens exactly where Lone Wolf and Cub ends, with Daigoro on the beach and the corpses of his father and Retsudo nearby. 1, Koike explains that in 2002 - around the same time he was wondering what exactly happened to Daigoro at the end of his story - he was approached by the magazine Shukan Post to write a sequel to his samurai epic. In an epilogue at the end of New Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. In his final breaths, he calls Daigoro "grandson. Retsudo is impaled by the spear and, dying, cradles the sobbing boy in his arms. With tears streaming down his cheeks, Daigoro finds the broken end of a spear and charges Retsudo, who inexplicably embraces the boy as he rushes him. Lone Wolf and Cub ends with its 142nd chapter, "Arms." After a long duel between Itto and Retsudo - a fight that spans three chapters all on its own - Itto sadly succumbs to his wounds and dies.
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