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‘Lazarus’ Creator Shinichirō Watanabe On Modernizing His Action Anime Series & Teases Upcoming “Ghost Story”


Anime icon Shinichirō Watanabe talks to Deadline about the inspiration in his latest action series Lazarus.

Humankind has been freed from sickness and pain after a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, Dr. Skinner, invented a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent side effects called Hapuna. A group of ragtag individuals forms a task force to locate Dr. Skinner and persuade him to develop a vaccine at the risk of humanity’s impending global extinction. DEADLINE: I read that you teamed up with the director of John Wick, Chad Stahelski, to help create the series’ stylized fighting.

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