WB Has Optioned Bleach?

According to the Anime News Network via Topless robot, Warner Brothers studio has licensed the rights to Tite Kubo's Bleach in hopes of making a live action film. At the helm will be Dan Mazeau who did the Wrath of the Titans remake as script writer. Peter Segal who's credits include the Get Smart remake ane the Longest Yard remake is set to produce the film and possibly being the director as well.

Warner Brothers has already acquired the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note.  Without producing any output so far, WB seems bent on buying up anime rights.

I am a big fan of Bleach and what bothers me about this arrangement is the script writer's credit is that horrid remake of Wrath of the Titans and the director Get Smart and the Longest Yard remakes.   All perfectly fine in their original incarnation but to a one were abysmal offerings the second time around.

Anime News Network article 

Bleach the manga to be a feature film

I know, when am I going to grow up. Well if it means putting away Manga and Anime, I suspect never. So this piece of news caught my eye. Fans of Adult Swim on Saturday nights will appreciate the news that Bleach has been licensed for a theatrical release that will be called Bleach: In Memory of Nobody. The feature film will be set for a summer 2008 release and a DVD edition in the winter of 2008. As for all I could dig out of the press release is that most of the major character will be used in the movie, which I think you fellow fans will agree is a real good thing.

For those of you that are uninitiated Bleach the manga is wildly popular and has been licensed to more than a dozen countries, and sold more than 50 million copies in Japan alone. The official Bleach web site is bleach.viz.com.