James Gunn and Suda51 are not involved with ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’ remake

nme.com:

James Gunn and Suda51 have taken to Twitter to confirm they’re not involved in the recently announced Lollipop Chainsaw remake.Yesterday (July 5) it was confirmed that the game’s original producer Yoshimi Yasuda will be working on the remake through his Dragami Games studio alongside “a combination of development staff from the original version”.However, it’s since been revealed that neither creative director Suda51 nor co-writer James Gunn will have any involvement in the new project.Taking to Twitter, Gunn said he only heard about the project “a couple of weeks ago” from Suda.“I neither endorse nor condemn it,” he added. “I simply don’t know anything about it.

But as articles are starting to slap our names on there, I think it’s important to make clear no one ever approached us about it.”I neither endorse nor condemn it!

I simply don’t know anything about it. But as articles are starting to slap our names on there, I think it’s important to make clear no one ever approached us about it.

https://t.co/yPOT76AeWp— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 5, 2022Suda shared a similar message, writing: “To add my two cents, like James Gunn says, neither he nor I am involved in this project at all, and Grasshopper Manufacture has nothing to do with development or anything.”It comes as the announcement of the remake tries to downplay Suda’s role as creative director for the 2012 title.“As Suda-san was very busy handling development on other projects at the time, I served as director and producer, creating a joint development team consisting of staff from Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games, overseeing development directly,” Yasuda said. “Suda-san looked over the game design and supervised the project as an executive.