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Live-Action Drops of God Show Competes in Lille's Series Mania Forum's International Competition
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Series Mania is taking place from March 17 through March 24 in Lille, France.
The show will premiere on April 21. Apple TV+ has acquired the eight-part series and will broadcast and stream it worldwide simultaneously.
The official title in Japan is Kami no Shizuku/Drops of God. (Similar to the title in Japan for the second Fullmetal Alchemist television series, the live-action series' title includes both the Japanese and English titles of the manga.)
Legendary Television is handling worldwide distribution outside of France and Japan. Hulu Japan will exclusively stream the series inside Japan alongside its world premiere. The series filmed over 10 months in France, Italy, and Japan.
The series is a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese companies. Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Télévisions, and Hulu Japan are backing the project, and are producing the project with Adline Entertainment. Oded Ruskin (Absentia, No Man's Land) is directing the series, and Quoc Dang Tran (Marianne, Parallel) wrote the scripts. Dynamic's Klaus Zimmermann (Borgia, Trapped) is producing the series.
Variety describes the story of the TV series:
The story involves a woman who discovers that her estranged father has left her the world's greatest wine collection in his will. But, to claim her inheritance she must compete against a Japanese man who her father regarded as a son and may have been more.
Comixology and Kodansha USA Publishing have released the manga in English digitally.
Throughout its serialization, the manga had famously boosted the sales of wines profiled in the story. The French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France has recognized the manga, giving it the magazine's top award in 2010. The New York Times also profiled the manga in its Dining and Wine section in 2008.
Source: Deadline (Jesse Whittock)
