Venom writers tapped for live-action adaptation of One-Punch Man

Watch out Akira and My Hero Academia and every other manga/anime adaptation currently collecting dust on a movie studio’s shelf: You’ve got a new friend, and it involves a ridiculously powerful bald guy named Saitama. According to Variety, Sony has hired Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinknker—the writers behind Venom and the two recent Jumani movies—to write a live-action adaptation of hit webcomic/manga/anime series One-Punch Man. The studio is also apparently “very high” on One-Punch Man given how popular its existing versions are, and it’s naturally really excited about One-Punch Man’s potential for becoming another big franchise. Wait, what? A franchise based on something other than an American comic book? That’s absurd! (Granted, it’s basically a Japanese comic book, and it is about a superhero, but it’s still totally different from all of those Spider-Mans and Justice Leagues you see running around.)