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French/Japanese MFKZ Anime Film's English Trailer Streamed

posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Film screens in U.S. on October 11, 16

GKIDS began streaming an English trailer for Studio 4°C and Ankama's MFKZ (Mutafukaz) film on Thursday.

The English dub cast will include:

GKIDS and Fathom Events will screen the film at theaters in the United States on October 11 and 16 at 7:00 p.m. local time. Both screenings will feature the English dub. In addition, the film will have a separate limited theatrical release by GKIDS beginning on October 12.

The film will also open in theaters in Japan on October 12 with a Japanese dub.

GKIDS describes the film:

Genre-mashup MFKZ is the love-child of French comic artist Guillaume "Run" Renard and ultra-hip Japanese animation house Studio 4°C, creators of Tekkonkinkreet, Genius Party and Mind Game. The Tekkonkinkreet dream team of Shoujirou Nishimi and art director Shinji Kimura reunite to bring to life a dark but stunningly animated sci-fi vision that mixes anime, film noir, Lucha Libre, and gang culture in an orgy of first-person shooter mayhem. The film centers on young Angelino and his skull-and-flame pal Vinny, who live in a seedy tenement in an LA-inspired dystopian metropolis - a burnt-out, gang and cockroach-ridden neo-urban hell that makes Blade Runner's LA seem like The Brady Bunch. Following a scooter accident Angelino starts experiencing migraines and strange hallucinations, as well as fits of rage-inspired superpowers, as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins: he is half human and half Macho, a supernatural alien race that is bent on taking over the planet.

French video game and comics publisher Ankama and Japan's Studio 4°C (Tekkon Kinkreet, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc) co-produced the film based on Guillaume "Run" Renard's Mutafukaz comic series. Renard himself directed the film with Tekkonkinkreet animation director Shoujirou Nishimi. Shinji Kimura (Tekkonkinkreet, Steamboy) served as art director. Teiichi Takiguchi (Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower, InuYasha, Kara no Kyoukai movie four) was chief animation director, and Eiko Tanaka (Mind Game, Tekkonkinkreet, First Squad) was producer.

The project was first announced in 2011, and the staff announced in 2015 that the film was slated for release in 2017. The film screened at Annecy in June 2017 and at the inaugural Animation is Film Festival in October 2017.

Renard's original comic series is set in "Dark Meat City" — a "pre-apocalyptic American urban jungle" — and revolves around Angelino, a young man whose scooter accident results in the acquisition of supernatural powers. Ankama's official website for the comic stated that it is inspired by science fiction of the 1950s, hip hop music, and wrestling.

Titan Comics released the first volume of the original French graphic novel in English-speaking countries in 2015.

Source: GKIDS Films' YouTube channel


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