If you’re OLD like me, you’ll remember those halcyon days of the late 1970s/early 80s when imported Japanese cartoons started blowing little kids’s skulls apart with utter fucking awesomeness. Star Blazers was one of these pioneering serials (along with Battle of the Planets, Captain Harlock, etc.), and I’ll be honest, it’s the only afternoon cartoon I can remember going completely out of my way to watch. If I was over at a friend’s house, we’d stop whatever we were doing to watch this thing. Mi padre — who would watch it with us — called it “a soap opera for little boys.”

So, the deal is, a couple guys have optioned the rights to make a live-action Star Blazers movie. We’ll see how it goes:

Benderspink and producer Josh C. Kline are teaming to adapt the classic Japanese anime Star Blazers into a live-action feature, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Known for its epic imagery and themes of brave sacrifice and respect for heroes lost in the line of duty, Star Blazers is the U.S. name for 1970s Japanese anime TV series Space Battleship Yamato. It comprised three television series, five animated features and a host of merchandise. Star Blazers, distributed in the U.S. by Voyager Entertainment, aired stateside in the early 1980s.

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