New Ultraman Zero Movie Coming

Hot off the heels of last year's Ultraman Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends movie (Review Here), Tsuburaya Productions’ are finishing up production on a brand new movie featuring Ultraman Zero in conjunction with Ultraman's 45th birthday celebration in Japan. This new movie will be a direct sequel to the Mega Monster Battle feature film.


Belial the badass evil Ultraman from that movie is back, now with a pimp coat and calling himself Kaiser Belial. He's apparently even more powerful than before (which is quite a feat) and has amassed another army in hopes of universal domination. Ultraman Zero will once again team up with some classic Ultramen, along with some others to do battle.


I guess this is a bit like "The Empire Strikes Back" in the Ultraman world. If nothing else, Kaiser Belial looks even cooler than Belial. Who knew it was possible. The film is called: ULTRAMAN ZERO THE MOVIE: SUPER DECISIVE BATTLE! BELIAL’S GALACTIC EMPIRE. Quite the mouthful.


To really amp up the cool factor and help bridge the gap between the stories, the film will also be accompanied by a two episode direct-to-DVD feature, Ultra Galaxy Legends Gaiden: Ultraman Zero VS Darclops Zero. Essentially an evil version of Ultraman Zero. But apparently some sort of evil alien clone, not an actual evil Ultraman. Whew... Tough to keep up with! But definitely looks cool.


It definitely looks like fun and the Darclops creature looks like he might be a formidable foe for Ultraman Zero, until the big showdown with Kaiser Belial. Ultraman Zero has yet to get an actual TV show, though it's believed he may get one after the film's release in 2011. We'll have to wait and see. In the meantime this two episode story and the feature film should be enough to hold off fans.


Ultraman Zero will have some new weapons this time, including a lance and spark. Also the feature film will mark the debut of Ultraman Zero's human form, a character named Ran, played by Koyanagi Yu. Hopefully this means a little more time on Earth (or some other planet) and less time in the Ultraman home world. Anyway, it's an exciting time to be an Ultraman fan and I'll try to update when I hear more or see this film sometime next year.

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Ultraman Tiga Returns In New Ultraman Movie For 2008

Sponichi Annex reports:

Pop singer Hiroshi Nagano (35), the star of ULTRAMAN TIGA will be reprising his role as Daigo, the human form of Ultraman Tiga, in a new feature film produced by Tsuburaya Productions, which will be released in Japanese cinemas, next fall. Nagano last appeared as Daigo in the 2000 film, ULTRAMAN TIGA: THE FINAL ODYSSEY. The ULTRAMAN TIGA television series first debuted on TBS in 1996 ( the series was briefly aired in the US as part of Fox's "Fox Box" children's line up in 2000, and is now available on DVD from Funimation).

"It's been eight years since Daigo transformed into Tiga," commented Nagano at a recent press conference announcing the new film, "I hope that I will be still able to transform properly for the audience, since it's been so long." Other Ultramen who have returned in their later days to transform again, include the original Ultraman, Susumu Kurobe (67), who appeared in last year's ULTRAMAN MOEBIUS & THE ULTRA BROTHERS, as a senior to the new Ultraman. In the 41 year history of the Ultra Series, the oldest actor to first take the role was 27 year old Yusuke Kirishima, who starred in ULTRAMAN NEXUS (2004).

The new film, entitled DECISIVE BATTLE! THE 8 SUPER ULTRA BROTHERS (Daikessen! Cho Urutora Hachi Urutora Kyodai), as you can guess by the title, will feature eight different Ultramen, but who exactly, besides Ultraman Tiga, are not being revealed at this time. An original Ultra Series alumni, Ultraman movie producer, Kiyoshi Suzuki enthusiastically stated, "In recent years, we have pretty much ignored the mythology of the Heisei Ultras, while we have been concentrating on returning to the Ultra Brothers of the Showa Era. Now, we will bring them both together for the first time."

(Article posted on October 17, 2007 [Japan Time], translation by August Ragone.)

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Siapa Minat Ultraman

Untuk musim ini hanya dua Ultraman sahaja yang aku tahu, Ultraman Max(2006) and Ultraman Mebius(2007). Agaknya apakah nama Ultraman untuk tahun depan pulak, siri ultraman kalau tak silap bermula tahun 1966 lama tu ..... sejak tu macam macam siri ultraman keluar, masa dulu masa bebudak aku sampai tak pergi mengaji pasal nak tengok Ultraman taro punya pasal, tapi itulah ... sekarag dah besar siri ultraman boleh tengok online sekarang nie ataupun download je dari IRC ataupun torrent.

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