It is officially announced at the press conference jointly held by Toho and Warner Brothers Japan today that live-action film adaptations of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, the fourth story arc of Hirohiko Araki's long-running JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series, are in the works and its first part is slated for summer 2017. 56-year-old Takashi Miike, who recently helmed the critically and commercially failed live-action film adaptation of Kenichi Tachibana and Yu Sasuga's sci-fi action manga Terra Formars, is confirmed to direct.

Announced main cast:

Josuke Higashikata: Kento Yamazaki (20/Yuuki Hase in One Week Friends)

Jotaro Kujo: Yusuke Iseya (40/Aoshi Shinomori in Rurouni Kenshin)

Koichi Hirose: Ryunosuke Kamiki (23/Akito Takagi in Bakuman.)

Okuyasu Nijimura: Mackenyu (19/Arata Wataya in Chihayafuru)

Keicho Nijimura: Masaki Okada (27/Hibito Nanba in Space Brothers)

Yukako Yamagishi: Nana Komatsu (20/Miho Azuki in Bakuman.)

Anjuro Katagiri/Angelo: Takayuki Yamada (32/Hideyoshi Hashiba in Nobunaga Concerto)

Tomoko Higashikata: Arisa Mizuki (39/Reiko Kudo in Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected)

Ryohei Higashikata: Jun Kunimura (60/Kubal in Attack on Titan)

via: Cinema Today, Comic Natalie, Oricon Style, Mantan Web