Ultrama🅘n may be unfamiliar to some but, to many in Jap✃an, the alien superhero - first introduced in 1966's Ultra Q – is an icon.

That decades-long history has spawned countless🍸 TV shows, movies, and video games. It even inspired director Shannon Tindle to come up with his own original idea, one that would become the basis for a new Netflix movie almost a quarter of a century later.

"I never thought there would be any way I could get the rights to the characters and at that time, I couldn’t have," Tindle tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, whic♔h features Doctor Who on the cover, of Tsuburaya Productions’ o💛ngoing rights battles.

Despite the legal roadbloc🦩k, ღTindle sketched detailed concept art alongside the script and – years later – received a call from Netflix about turning his project (then titled Made in Japan) into an Ultraman movie.

"I said, 'Well, nerd me is very excited by that. But producer/ director me wants to make a movie that 🔯I want to make,'" he remembers. "They said, 'We support that whether it’s going to be Ultraman or not – we want to make the movie.'"

Ult🎉raman: Rising follows Ultraman (in this iteration, a baseball star named Ken Sato) as he juggles his world-saving duties with baby kaiju, Emi.

One of Tindle's great hopes is that audiences fall in love with Emi, just like he did conceptualising her back in 2001.🔴 "She’s got a touch of Looney Tunes, a smidge of ’70s Japanese kids shows, and a lot of my daughter when she was a toddler🐈," he says of his inspirations. "One of the greatest rewards from early screenings has been watching how people connect with Emi on a personal level. That’s an incredible feeling."

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Ultraman: Rising releases on N🌱etflix on June 24. The above is just a snippet from our interview, available in , which features Doctor Who on the cover and is available from Wednesday, May 15. See what you should be looking out for on newsstands below...

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