Carl Erik Rinsch’s ‘47 Ronin’ Will Be Shot In 3D
By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2010 4:47 pm EST
The film is a “priority” “large budget” project for Universal, which makes it all the more unusual that the studio is entrusting a first time feature director with the potential tentpole feature. Wanted screenwriter Chris Morgan has described the project as a “great, Gladiator-esque, 300-like big action movie with samurai and ninja.”
Based on a true 18th Century Japanese story, the film follows a band of samurai swordsmen who are shamed into becoming the titular ronin – a Japanese word meaning lordless samurai, and must avenge the death of their master. The construct a huge plan and sacrifice everything to see it through.
“It’s a time in Japanese culture when it was all about [the] bushido [code] and honor, and putting internal things over external things – swords that were made to be functional instead of ornamental, that kind of stuff,” Morgan previously told MTV. “this turning point in the culture when that started to shift. Society started to be more about external kind of things. The story is about these samurai whose lord is killed in an unfair way.”
47 Ronin will be released in theaters in 3D on Wednesday, November 21, 2012.
