Alexandre Aja, the director behind the trippy Piranha 3-D movie wants to step away from his regular day job as a horror/thriller director to bring the anime character Space Pirate Cobra to life.
If you’re unfamiliar with Space Pirate Cobra it’s a huge hit in Europe and features a space pirate who goes on various adventures, including one adventure where his mind is erased so he forgets he’s a space pirate. He’s also not your typical cartoon with cigars always dangling from his mouth and scantily clad woman always hanging from his arms.
According to Deadline Aja believes Space Pirate Cobra would make a great “tentpole” action film, so much so that he spent years pursuing the rights to create the series which he is penning with Gregory Levasseur.
Here’s the full synopsis of Space Pirate the move, according to Deadline:
In a future where merchant spaceships and ruthless brigands sail across space, Cobra is a notorious rogue pirate whose refusal to align with the United Galaxies Federation or the Pirates Guild puts him on the business end of a huge bounty. As he tries to keep his identity secret and avoid capture, Cobra teams up with a sexy bounty hunter named Jane, who is out to locate her sisters and decode a treasure map tattooed on their backs. Their goal: to liberate a lost treasure on Mars.
How serious is Aja? According to io9:
…Aja wants to hire creature designers who’ve worked on Star Trek and Avatar (presumably referring to Neville Page, Wayne Barlowe, Yuri Bartoli, et al.) to work on Cobra.
Are you ready for a space opera? Because if the right lineup comes together this could be one kick-butt movie.
