User blog comment:Finchelfanno1/A possible Bleach movie??/@comment-1489595-20110622161957

Sure a live-movie adaptation could be in the works. It wouldn't be anything all that unusual, a similar kind of movie was done with Avatar: the Last Airbender. Trouble is you don't want it to end up like Avatar with a subpar movie adaptation.

Right now Bleach is in development hell where movies linger for years or decades with nothing being done. Studios like the pad their options with many movie choices in case they ever actually decide, on a remote chance, to do one of them. Any 'talk' you hear about these is usually just smoke. Plus Bleach has a animated movie formula that works just fine for most people.

Bleach though does have several advantages. Its a living breathing franchise and one of the most popular anime. Its animated movies don't do badly and thats encouraging. The technology to do something like Bleach is certainly available and not necessarily all that expensive anymore.