My Hero Academia: the live-action adaptation of the popular superhero manga is left to the director of "Bleach" and "I Am a Hero"

Last 2018, just before the release of the hit movie 'Detective Pikachu' - its 433 million dollars raised speak for themselves - the people of Legendary Pictures announced that they were preparing a live action adaptation of 'My Hero Academia'; Kōhei Horikoshi's acclaimed manga that made the leap to anime in 2016 by Kenji Nagasaki.

A veteran of live action

After a long season with no news about the project, we have finally known who will be the director in charge of bringing the adventures of Izuku Midoriya to the big screen. This will be none other than the Japanese filmmaker Shinsuke Sato; well acquainted with live-action based on manganimes after having tackled titles such as 'Gantz', 'Death Note' or 'Bleach'.

In addition, Sato is also responsible for the hilarious zombie comedy 'I Am a Hero', which won a well-deserved Audience Award at the 2015 Sitges Film Festival and, more recently, for the wild survival series 'Alice in Borderland'. ; both also adaptations of sleeves.

'My Hero Academia' was originally published in 2014 in the famous Weekly Shōnen Jump, and follows the adventures of Izuku Idoriya; a young man obsessed with superheroes who dreams of becoming one of them in a world where 80% of the population has some kind of superpower. Of course, poor Izuku belongs to the remaining 20%, but he still decides to enroll in the Yuekio hero academy to test his worth and fulfill his dream.