Live-Action Fullmetal Alchemist Film's On-Set Photos Show Yamada in Costume as Ed

[Midghost]

Film is shooting on location in Volterra, Italy

 

Italian newspaper La Nazione posted three photographs from the set of the live-action film of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist manga on Tuesday. The stills show the film's shooting in the Italian town of Volterra, and show lead actor Ryōsuke Yamada in costume as his character Edward Elric.

 

 

Filming began in Italy in early June, and will wrap up in Japan in the second half of August. The film will open in Japan in winter 2017.

 

 

 

Fumihiko Sori (live-action Ping Pong) is directing the film. On adapting the source material, Sori said, "I want to create a style that follows the original manga as much as possible. The cast is entirely Japanese, but the cultural background is Europe. However, it's a style that doesn't represent a specific race or country." Regarding the faithfulness of the adaptation, which has characters of non-Japanese ethnicity, the director said, "There will never be a scene in which a character says something that would identify him/her as Japanese."

 

 

The film stars Ryōsuke Yamada (Hey! Say! JUMP member and live-action Assassination Classroom's Nagisa) as Edward Elric, Tsubasa Honda (live-action Blue Spring Ride's Futaba) (pictured top right in image to the right) as Winry Rockbell, and Dean Fujioka (live-action Happy Marriage!?) (pictured bottom left in image to the right) as Roy Mustang. Other cast members include:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Fumiyo Kohinata as General Hakuro 

Ryuta Sato as Maes Hughes 

Misako Renbutsu as Riza Hawkeye
Natsuna as Maria Ross
Natsuki Harada as Gracia Hughes
Yo Oizumi as Shou Tucker
Jun Kunimura as Doctor Marco
Yasuko Matsuyuki as Lust
Kanata Hongou as Envy
Shinji Uchiyama as Gluttony
Kenjiro Ishimaru as Father Cornello
The film tells the story in one complete film. Ed is being aged up to 20 years old; he was originally 15 in the manga.

Sori told Oricon he has a deep affection for the story that tells the "truth of living," and said, "It is my dearest wish to turn this wonderful story into a film, and it is not an exaggeration to say that I am living for this reason." He added that he "wants to create a wonderful film that uses techniques that challenge Hollywood," and noted that nowadays Japanese filmmaking techniques have progressed greatly.

 

   

Arakawa published the manga from 2001 to 2010 in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan, and Viz Media released the series in North America and describes the story:

In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical “auto-mail” limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother's bodies...the legendary Philosopher's Stone.

The series inspired the Fullmetal Alchemist television anime series in 2003 and its sequel film, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa, in 2005. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, a second television anime series based more closely on the original manga's story, debuted in 2009. A spinoff anime film, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, premiered in 2011.

[fenixisalive]

sounds nice, but its hard to keep up with the anime.

[Midghost]

Yup,you are right.

[nutterbutter]

the whole story in 1 film? Its gonna cut out all of the development and wind up feeling rushed? But ill still check it out

 

[demoniquesoul]

This looks promising. Hoping it won't be disappointing.

[JM_Rizal]

Man! Can't wait to see this film but I'm kinda reluctant though. They're going to age Ed to 20y/o? Umm...I hope it works.  I've watched the first TV series and Brotherhood too.  I can't imagine them compressing the whole story of FMA in just one whole movie.  I'd say I have to keep my fingers crossed.  The images are awesome though.  Where's Roy?! I didn't see him in the cast/ actors line-up?

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On 12/8/2016 at 1:13 PM, JM_Rizal said:

Man! Can't wait to see this film but I'm kinda reluctant though. They're going to age Ed to 20y/o? Umm...I hope it works.  I've watched the first TV series and Brotherhood too.  I can't imagine them compressing the whole story of FMA in just one whole movie.  I'd say I have to keep my fingers crossed.  The images are awesome though.  Where's Roy?! I didn't see him in the cast/ actors line-up?

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Dean Fujioka is playing Roy. She's pictured with Winry and Ed's actors.

 

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Hopefully they didn't mean to say the movie would encompass the whole of FMA's story, and instead it just be set near the end of the storyline. However, I haven't been following the project very closely so maybe that's exactly what they meant.

[littlefool]

I am so excited for this ngl. And I actually love Yamada Ryousuke, so I hope he does a good job!

[galatia]

you don't have to worry about the age thing because ryosuke looks young. (it's like all johnny's talents look a lot younger than their age)