Kurt Wimmer’s Ultraviolet Gets Anime Spin-Off

Posted by on April 8th, 2008   Filed under: Action, Animation, Sci-fi, Trailers
Source: Twitch

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Despite the high hopes that many people had for Kurt Wimmer’s 2006 sci-fi actioner Ultraviolet, it was essentially panned by critics and dismissed even by hardcore Milla Jovovich fans (and that’s saying something!). Strangely, it seems as though we may not have seen the last of this film. According to the good folks at Twitch, Sony is turning the property into an anime franchise.

An animated film is currently in the works at acclaimed Japanese studio Madhouse (Paprika, Metropolis), under the direction of Osamu Dezaki (Golgo 13, Black Jack). It’s unclear how close this may be to Wimmer’s original vision (the studio reportedly messed with the original film production quite a bit) but it does seem like an obvious and suitable concept to translate to animation. (In fact, when I originally reported on Ultraviolet back in 2005 I had read that it was based on a comic book… this later turned out not to be true.) The animated film is going by the name Ultraviolet Code 044 is scheduled for release in Japan on July 1st. Check out a short teaser trailer below.



  • Ultraviolet was simply a really bad movie. There were one or two little sci-fi concepts in there that I enjoyed, but that only means that the movie was maybe 3% enjoyable for me. I had no interest in seeing this anime before watching the teaser, and it’s production company must have wanted to keep it that way because they sure as hell didn’t show me anything worth watching. Bleh.

  • I actually liked Ultraviolet, and was taken to task by the twitch readership, I still like the film, it’s a guilty pleasure in the same vein as ESCAPE FROM L.A. or DOOMSDAY….a visual pastiche with over the top hilarity and a great opening credit sequence.

    sorry, can’t side with the haters on this one.

  • And for the record, Ultraviolet was snatched from Wimmers hands and all the blood was CGI removed from the film, probably along with some of the coherence. I’d love to see his cut of the film.