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Warner Bros. has gotten the rights to another of Frank Miller’s graphic novels - Ronin. It is a story of a disgraced warrior from the 13th century, who returns to the technologically advanced 21st century New York. However, his greatest enemy, the demon Agat, has been reborn too.

How close will the movie follow the graphic novels though? Aside from thinning it down to fit in one movie, the director says it will stay pretty much the same: “The idea will be to stay close to the graphic novel. Ronin is very dense and very long so of course we are going to have to streamline the story to fit it within a movie time frame,” he said, adding that “We are condensing very little characters. We have to condense the plot a little bit because it goes back and forth a lot between different time periods and there’s not enough time in the movie. It would have to be a five hour film to get everything in, but in terms of characters, all of key ones are there.” So while a few plot lines may be sacrificed for the sake of time, the characters will be intact.

While there is nothing on when it will be released, the live action film will be directed by Sylvain White, who says that “Ronin is the best possible project I thought I could ever have.” It will be produced by Gianni Nunnari and Nick Wechsler, with Craig Flores and Frank Miller executively producing. It will be shot in the same style as 300, and will most likely cost around the same amount ($65 million).