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Funimation Announces The Empire of Corpses Film's Theatrical Dates

North American anime distributor Project Itoh.

Funimation is also streaming a teaser trailer for the film:

Funimation describes the story:

From the studio that produced Attack on Titan comes a captivating historical action thriller based on an award-winning novel by Project Itoh. In an alternate version of 19th century London, the world has been revolutionized by “corpse reanimation technology” creating armies of undead who serve the living as laborers across the globe.

In an attempt to revive his dearly departed friend, young medical student John Watson becomes obsessed with replicating the work of Dr. Victor Frankenstein—the legendary corpse engineer whose research produced the only re-animated corpse to possess a soul. But when his illegal experiments put him at odds with the British government, Watson is drafted into a worldwide race to find the lost research notes of Victor Frankenstein before the secrets of the human soul fall into the wrong hands.

The film's Japanese cast stars:

• Yoshimasa Hosoya as John H. Watson, a medical student at the University of London
• Ayumu Murase as Friday, also known as Noble_Savage_007
• Taiten Kusunoki as Frederick Barnaby, a captain in Great Britain's army
• Daiki Yamashita as Nikolai Krasotkin, a young man from Russia's Third Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
• Shinichirō Miki as Alexei Karamazov, a Russian priest
• Kana Hanazawa as Hadary Lilith, the president's secretary from America
• Akio Ohtsuka as M, commander of Great Britain's "Walsingham Organization"

The Empire of Corpses opened in theaters in Japan on October 2. Funimation will Guilty Crown) is performing theme songs for all three films.

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reported in 2012 that film adaptation rights were being pitched in Hollywood.

Monthly Dragon Age magazine on September 9.

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