20TH CENTURY BOYS: THE MOVIE

This looks pretty epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjVdMgbz5ak

20th Century Boys--coming out this August--is based on the manga by Naoki Urasawa, soon to be published in English. It is going to be a trilogy, and apparently has a budget of six billion yen! The story, which jumps backwards and forwards in time at a rapid pace, is about a group of childhood friends who reunite thirty years after they graduate from high school, only to discover that a mysterious cult leader known as Friend is attempting to bring about the apocalypse in a bizarre reenactment of an elaborate mythology they made when they were children. Cue references to the 1970s, secret conspiracies and giant robots.

I haven't read much of 20th Century Boys, and another trailer for the movie looks like it's going to be two hours and thirty minutes of talking, or something. But Naoki Urasawa also wrote Monster, which is incredible, and since 20th Century Boys is generally assumed by those who have read it to be twice as good as Monster was I think this might be worth looking out for. If it does well in Japan, maybe they might even release it in the US! They released Death Note, anyway.