Attack on Titan, The Movie: Part 1

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) is a live-action movie, directed by Shinji Higuchi and written by Yusuke Watanabe and Tomohiro Machiyama, based on the manga created by Hajime Isayama. It is slated for a 2015 Japan release.

Plot
The story of the live-action movie will be based on the manga but will include some original aspects and will be supervised by the author, Hajime Isayama.

Cast, Crew and other Details

 * Haruma Miura - Eren Yeager
 * Mizuhara Kiko - Mikasa Ackerman
 * Kanata Hongô - Armin Arlert
 * Satomi Ishihara - Hange Zoë
 * Nanami Sakuraba - Sasha Blouse
 * Takahiro Miura - Jean Kirstein
 * Hiroki Hasegawa - Shikishima

Production Companies

 * Kodansha
 * Licri
 * Nikkatsu
 * Toho Company
 * Toho Pictures

Special Effects

 * Nishimura Motion Picture Model Makers Group

Trivia

 * Tetsuya Nakashima was originally selected to direct the film, with a public announcement on December 8, 2011. It was announced by December, 2012 that Tetsuya Nakashima has dropped out of the project due to creative differences. On December 4, 2013 a public announcement was made that the movie project will begin again with Shinji Higuchi as the film's director.
 * The most popular character of the series, Levi Ackerman, will not appear in the movie. Instead, the movie depicts a completely new character called Shikishima, described as the "Strongest Man", opposing to Levi’s "Humanity’s Strongest Soldier" title.
 * Shikishima was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the lead ship of the Shikishima class in the late 1890s. During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, she was second in the line of battle of the First Division, following Tōgō's flagship Mikasa.

​External Links

 * Attack on Titan Live Action Movie on IMDB