Onyx Films to Produce Cobra: The Space Pirate

Onyx Films and Studio 37 are partnering on an adaptation of the Japanese manga COBRA: THE SPACE PIRATE, Variety reports.

Onyx Films and Studio 37 are partnering on an adaptation of the Japanese manga COBRA: THE SPACE PIRATE, Variety reports. PIRANHA 3D’s Alexandre Aja is directing.

Onyx's Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam will produce alongside co-producers Alexandra Milchan and Gregory Levasseur, and exec producers Marc Sessego and Andree Cornier.

Aja and Levasseur adapted the tale of a space pirate. The manga already spawned an anime series in Japan.

Production on the $100 million film will begin next spring with summer 2013 targeted for the film’s release.

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