Gen Urobuchi’s 2009 gentle novel sequence, Eisen Flugel, will seem on the silver screens as a film. It is at present unknown when it should seem in theaters. A-1 Pictures will produce the movie. This announcement got here at Aniplex Online Fest on Saturday.

While Urobuchi (RWBY: Ice Queendom) penned the unique novels, Seiji Mizushima and Yukie Sugawara (Sword Art Online) are those writing the screenplay. Seiji Mizushima (Mobile Suit Gundam 00) may even be the chief director. In the unique gentle novels, Takashi Takeuchi (Fate) offered the character designs. Keigo Sasaki (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) is accountable for adapting these designs for the Eisen Flugel film. As for the music, Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) will work because the composer.

You can watch the trailer for Eisen Flugel right here:

Eisen Flugel is a lightweight novel duology that got here out in 2009 and is an authentic work from Urobuchi. In a written remark despatched through the unveiling of the Eisen Flugel teaser, Urobuchi revealed that the story had all the time been supposed to be a film, quite than the novel it was ultimately revealed as. The concept got here from a movie remedy drafted when recreation developer Nitro Plus was given a chance to pitch for a theatrical anime venture. In Urobuchi’s telling, the president of Nitro Plus “demanded that [he] transform their proposal into a one-cour anime project. And so [I] panicked and scrambled to add more content to the proposal.” The authentic pitch ended up not panning out, and a while later Urobuchi reworked the pitch into the two-volume novel that was ultimately revealed underneath Shogakukan’s Gagaga Bunko imprint. “And so, after nearly twenty years,” Urobuchi stated, “Eisen Flugel can finally become the feature film it was always destined to be.”

The story takes place throughout a time when dragons nonetheless dominated the skies. However, individuals with synthetic wings challenged these dragons to duels with the intention to declare possession of the sky. The story follows Karl Schunitz, the check pilot for the Blitz Vogel (the world’s first airplane with a jet engine), in his problem in opposition to the Kaiser Drache. The Kaiser Drache is a dragon stated to have glowing wings and may journey on the velocity of sunshine. But even researchers debate its existence.

Eisen Flugel is in growth.