Hartnett to star in ‘Bunraku’

Moshe to write, direct martial arts action film

By DEREK PETERS

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Josh Hartnett has been cast to lead Snoot Entertainment’s latest effort, martial arts action pic “Bunraku.”

The “30 Days of Night” thesp will play an unnamed, revenge-seeking drifter in an alternate universe. Snoot boasts the pic’s chockablock inspirations, which stretch from Japanese puppet theater to video games to German expressionism, and is billing the story as a spaghetti-Western-samurai-gangster mashup.

Guy Moshe (“Holly”) will write and direct, with lensing to begin this spring in Europe.