Carl Erik Rinsch's '47 Ronin' Will Be Shot In 3D

Universal Pictures has confirmed that commercial director and Ridley Scott protege Carl Erik Rinsch 's big screen debut 47 Ronin will be produced, shot, and released in 3D. Keanu Reeves stars in the epic period samurai film 47 Ronin (not to be confused with the adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel Ronin). Rinsch's decision to shoot the movie in 3D shouldn't come as a huge surprise as the filmmaker was planning to shoot Logan's Run in 3D.

You might recognize Rinsch's name as he was originally tapped to direct a prequel/remake of Alien, but Fox convinced Ridley Scott to helm the project himself. I was one of the few people actually interested in Rinsch's involvement. Rinsch's commercials show an amazing sense of imagination, visual effects artistry and composition. We've profiled his amazing commercials on the site, more than once. If you havent checked them out yet, you should do so now.

The film is a "priority" "large budget" project for Universal, which makes it all the more unusual that the studio is entrusting a first time feature director with the potential tentpole feature. Wanted screenwriter Chris Morgan has described the project as a "great, Gladiator-esque, 300-like big action movie with samurai and ninja."

"It's a time in Japanese culture when it was all about [the] bushido [code] and honor, and putting internal things over external things -- swords that were made to be functional instead of ornamental, that kind of stuff," Morgan previously told MTV. "this turning point in the culture when that started to shift. Society started to be more about external kind of things. The story is about these samurai whose lord is killed in an unfair way."

Based on a true 18th Century Japanese story, the film follows a band of samurai swordsmen who are shamed into becoming the titular ronin -- a Japanese word meaning lordless samurai, and must avenge the death of their master. The construct a huge plan and sacrifice everything to see it through.

47 Ronin will be released in theaters in 3D on Wednesday, November 21, 2012.