Bandai Namco Pictures announced a Western live-action television series for the Tiger & Bunny anime series on Friday. The company is collaborating with US-based film production company SK Global to produce the live-action series.

M. Raven Metzner (Iron Fist) is credited as the scriptwriter and showrunner. Masayuki Ozaki, the executive producer of the original anime, is serving as an executive producer alongside Metzner. Tetsu Fujimura (Ghost in the Shell) of Filosophia and SK Global's co-founder Sidney Kimmel are also among the executive producers.

A Hollywood live-action movie of Tiger & Bunny was previously announced in 2015 and would have been produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer from Imagine Entertainment and Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey from All Nippon Entertainment Works.

Sunrise produced the original 25-episode anime series and aired from April to September 2011. The side story film—subtitled The Beginning—premiered in Japan in 2012, with The Rising sequel film opening in 2014. The first 13 episodes of the second season streamed on Netflix on April 8.

Mizuki Sakakibara began a manga adaptation based on the first 13 anime episodes in Newtype Ace in 2011. The manga moved to Kadokawa Niconico Ace in 2013 due to the former ceasing publication and ended the following December with nine volumes.

VIZ Media licensed the anime series in North America and released the television series and side story on home video throughout 2013, with the sequel film in December 2014. The company also published Sakakibara's manga adaptation, Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning manga adaptation, and the Tiger & Bunny Comic Anthology.

Source: Variety, Comic Natalie