The Daily Cyzo web magazine reports that Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba's classic boxing manga Ashita no Joe will be adapted into a live-action film. According to Daily Cyzo's source who is connected to the film plans, Tomohisa Yamashita (Ikebukuro West Gate Park, Kurosagi) of the idol group NEWS will star as an orphan named Joe Yabuki who rises from the Tokyo slums under the tutelage of a former boxer. Filming will reportedly run from the end of March to May.