Hideo Nakata To Direct "The Suicide Forest"

Director Hideo Nakata, best known for helming the Japanese horror film Ringu as well as the American sequel The Ring Two, is now looking to tackle an adaptation of the graphic novel The Suicide Forest.  According to Deadline, Hideo Nakata will direct the live-action adaptation of The Suicide Forest, a graphic novel from IDW Publishing. Producers Roy Lee and Taka Ichise will be producing the upcoming feature. The Suicide Forest is just one in a series of  four graphic novels which is written by El Torres. The film will revolve “around Aokigahara, a vast forest outside Tokyo which is called the most famous suicide spot in the world. Legend that spirits of past suicides roaming among the trees. An American ex-pat living in Tokyo must enlist the help of a forest ranger in Aokigahara to help free him from the clutches of an evil spirit haunting him from the Suicide Forest.”