My Hero Academia creator is 'very involved' in live-action movie: 'There's no nothing that he doe...

Jason Fuchs, who's writing the Netflix film, confirms just how involved Kōhei Horikoshi is on the project. My Hero Academia creator is 'very involved' in liveac

Jason Fuchs, who's writing the Netflix film, confirms just how involved Kōhei Horikoshi is on the project.

My Hero Academia creator is 'very involved' in live-action movie: 'There's no nothing that he doesn't give notes on'

Jason Fuchs, who's writing the Netflix film, confirms just how involved Kōhei Horikoshi is on the project.

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'My Hero Academia' final season. Credit:

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Live-action adaptations of manga and anime have been hit or miss, as demonstrated by successes like *One Piece* and *Alice in Borderland*, and failures like *Cowboy Bebop* and *Death Note*. But Jason Fuchs, who's actively writing the live-action feature film based on *My Hero Academia*, shares his project's biggest strength.

"We have creators who are present," Fuchs, who's currently out promoting HBO's *It: Welcome to Derry*, on which he serves as co-creator and co-showrunner, tells **.

Kōhei Horikoshi, who created the original *My Hero Academia* manga, "is very involved" in the movie adaptation, Fuchs confirms. "There's no treatment, there's no outline, there's no scenes, there's no nothing that Kōhei doesn't give notes on, react to [with] thumbs up, thumbs down," he says. "That makes me feel really confident that we're gonna deliver something that fans, like myself, feel great about."

'My Hero Academia' final season.

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*My Hero Academia* was first published as a serialized manga in 2014, and after it exploded with a plethora of published spinoffs, a television anime adaptation launched in 2016. Four anime movies were also released over the years.

Set in a world where superpowers, called "quirks," have become commonplace, the story begins with Izuku Midoriya (a.k.a. Deku), a young boy who doesn't have any abilities but dreams of becoming a hero. Seeing his potential, the world's premier hero gives Deku powers and gets him into a specialty high school for superheroes.

Shinsuke Sato, a filmmaker known for some of the more successful anime adaptations, like *Bleach* and *Kingdom*, is attached to direct the live-action movie for Netflix and Legendary.

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Fuchs says the team is "very early" in the process of the adaptation but notes he's not as worried about the live-action element as he is about capturing the tone and the spirit of the characters. "You want to do something that feels authentic to the material," he explains. "You want to do something that fans feel respects the canon and the original, but also find an access point for people who've never read [the manga], who's never seen the first films."

He points to Deku as "a young man who is in that 20 percent of quirk-less people in a world where everyone has something special." Fuchs adds, "You connect with him so quickly. You connect with all these characters. Being faithful to those characters informs all of it."

The final season of the *My Hero Academia* anime premiered in the U.S. on Crunchyroll earlier this month on Oct. 4, with new episodes streaming every week.

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