Article: Hart Takes On Samurai Girl

09:00am ET, 01-October-04

Hart Takes On Samurai Girl

Melissa Joan Hart has signed a deal with manga publisher TOKYOPOP to
produce and star in a film based on the Japanese comic book and
anime Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School, the company announced.
Dan Gordon (The Hurricane) will write the screenplay, which he
describes as Clueless meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The story centers around a twenty-something sushi-bar hostess who
discovers she is a reincarnated Samurai warrior and mankind's only
hope to save the world from a coven of monsters which hatch every
5,000 years, the company said.

Hart's production company, Hartbreak Films, had been looking for a
project with a strong, dynamic female lead when Gordon brought them
the script. "Dan took a few weeks reading the material and then
delivered a story that had us sitting on the edges of our seats,"
said executive producer Paula Hart. "It is smart, funny and terribly
exciting." TOKYOPOP and Hartbreak Films are now in conversations
with potential studio partners for the project.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film.html?2004-10/01/11.00.film

Um, wow. Melissa Joan Hart as a reincarnated samurai.
I wonder if she was at Sekigahara too...


--- Kitsuno <samurai-listowner@...>
wrote:

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> 09:00am ET, 01-October-04
>
> Hart Takes On Samurai Girl
>
> Melissa Joan Hart has signed a deal with manga
> publisher TOKYOPOP to
> produce and star in a film based on the Japanese
> comic book and
> anime Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School, the
> company announced.
> Dan Gordon (The Hurricane) will write the
> screenplay, which he
> describes as Clueless meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden
> Dragon.
>
> The story centers around a twenty-something
> sushi-bar hostess who
> discovers she is a reincarnated Samurai warrior and
> mankind's only
> hope to save the world from a coven of monsters
> which hatch every
> 5,000 years, the company said.
>
> Hart's production company, Hartbreak Films, had been
> looking for a
> project with a strong, dynamic female lead when
> Gordon brought them
> the script. "Dan took a few weeks reading the
> material and then
> delivered a story that had us sitting on the edges
> of our seats,"
> said executive producer Paula Hart. "It is smart,
> funny and terribly
> exciting." TOKYOPOP and Hartbreak Films are now in
> conversations
> with potential studio partners for the project.
>
>

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film.html?2004-10/01/11.00.film

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--- In samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com, Nate Ledbetter
wrote:

> Um, wow. Melissa Joan Hart as a reincarnated samurai.
> I wonder if she was at Sekigahara too...
>

So if she is a reincarnation of a Samurai, does that make her a
modern samurai?

Only if she follows Hagakurry.

Speaking of Hagakurry, I think I'll have that for
dinner tonight...


--- Kitsuno <samurai-listowner@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com, Nate
> Ledbetter
> wrote:
> > Um, wow. Melissa Joan Hart as a reincarnated
> samurai.
> > I wonder if she was at Sekigahara too...
> >
>
> So if she is a reincarnation of a Samurai, does that
> make her a
> modern samurai?
>
>
>
>

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Doesn't sound too good, at least as live action.

Miburo

--- In samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com, "Kitsuno"
wrote:

>
> 09:00am ET, 01-October-04
>
> Hart Takes On Samurai Girl
>
> Melissa Joan Hart has signed a deal with manga publisher TOKYOPOP to
> produce and star in a film based on the Japanese comic book and
> anime Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School, the company announced.
> Dan Gordon (The Hurricane) will write the screenplay, which he
> describes as Clueless meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
>
> The story centers around a twenty-something sushi-bar hostess who
> discovers she is a reincarnated Samurai warrior and mankind's only
> hope to save the world from a coven of monsters which hatch every
> 5,000 years, the company said.
>
> Hart's production company, Hartbreak Films, had been looking for a
> project with a strong, dynamic female lead when Gordon brought them
> the script. "Dan took a few weeks reading the material and then
> delivered a story that had us sitting on the edges of our seats,"
> said executive producer Paula Hart. "It is smart, funny and terribly
> exciting." TOKYOPOP and Hartbreak Films are now in conversations
> with potential studio partners for the project.
>
> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film.html?2004-10/01/11.00.film