Variety has reported that Warner Bros. finalized a deal with Japanese publisher Kodansha to produce a feature film based on Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga. Andy Muschietti is on board to direct.

David Heyman, Masi Oka, and Andy’s sister Barbara Muschietti are producing the film.

Deadline Hollywood reported in January 2017 that Warner Bros. was in negotiations to get the film rights (with Heyman on board to produce), but Kodansha claimed that the report was incorrect.

Source: ANN

This episode is basically setting up the Scouts’ upcoming mission to retake Wall Maria. While this sounds like not much is happening, there’s actually some important information being shared, as well as reminding the audience of the dreams of the younger versions of Eren, Armin, and Mikasa.

The contents of the box that Kenny had given to Levi a few episodes back is touched upon here, and those currently in power trying to decide what to do with it. It’s ultimately decided to have Levi keep it, and make the decision as to when to use it and on whom.

Speaking of Levi, he tries to get Erwin to stay out of the upcoming operation, since Erwin is now an injured soldier. But since Erwin feels that whatever may be in Eren’s basement may prove his father right, Erwin insists on going. It was interesting to see how, in Levi’s own way, just how passionate he was to try to keep Erwin off the mission. OK, maybe threatening to break someone’s legs isn’t exactly the most humane way to express your concern for someone’s well-being, but that works for Levi’s character. But not matter how much Levi tries to argue, Erwin insists on leading the upcoming mission.

The most entertaining part of the episode takes place at a feast the night before the Scouts leave on the mission. They are actually provided meat, which has become a rarity in the world that they’re inhabiting. A major ruckus breaks out, with Sasha trying to inhale a whole piece of meat without sharing. It was amusing to see Conny trying to hold Sasha back, and how Sasha reacts to Jean taking the meat out of her hands.

After that quiets down, Jean decides to pick on Eren, and this starts yet another ruckus, with the two of them coming to blows in a fist fight. But the funny thing is, no one tries to stop them. Not even Mikasa. Hell, in one shot, we see her smiling in the background as she watches the fight unfold. But what I really liked was how Levi brought this fight to an end. I have to say, that after how mopey and down Eren had been recently, it was nice to see him have a little bit of spunk. I don’t want to see him returning to his old, annoying self, but at least he’s not acting quite so emo anymore.

Right near the end, we discover that the townspeople have learned of the Scouts’ mission, and they are there cheering them on. The Scouts have never gotten this kind of a reaction from the people before, and we see Erwin taking this in and seizing the opportunity to bask in it and use this response from the people to inspire the other Scouts.

As I watching the ending credits, something strange happened. About partway through, we see the image stutter, then a bunch of images flashing in a row. The credits continue, and then the image stutters again. But this time, it cuts to a scene of something we haven’t seen before in the anime. At the risk of providing a spoiler, I will say that this brief scene that appears in the ending credits is foreshadowing something that will be happening in the story in the near future. Since the ending credits were changed in this way, there was no preview for the next episode.

With this little foreshadowing that took place during the ending credits, I’m very curious to see how the next episode is handled.

<strongEDITED TO ADD: I was just browsing through Anime News Network, and it appears we won’t be seeing more of Attack on Titan Season 3 until April of 2019. So I guess we’ll be waiting about six months to find out what happens next!

The episode starts by showing Historia not exactly acting like a typical queen. But, it turns out that what she’s doing falls into the mission she’s set for herself: to help anyone, regardless of who they are. She is especially putting an emphasis on the orphans, including the orphans in the underground. With Levi’s youth growing up in the underground, he’s very supportive of her mission.

For a lot of this episode, Eren is depicted as being down on himself, moody, and mumbling things to himself. Early on, he’s spending a bit of time with Historia, and we definitely see some hints of jealousy from Mikasa. I was actually surprised that Mikasa didn’t react at one point, when Jean comments about Eren hanging out with Historia and “holding hands” (they actually aren’t from what we see on screen, though).

We also see some of the newer recruits to the Scouts, some of which were former classmates of Eren and the others. They comment that they notice that Eren and the others have changed and wonder what happened. When they offer to explain to their former classmates what happened to cause the change, they decide against hearing it. But it’s being depicted that all of the newer recruits are excited about joining the Scouts, especially after Hange comes up with a new weapon that utilizes Eren’s hardening ability. Hange’s reactions to the success of the test was very amusing to see, though. We hadn’t seen Hange act this way in the series for quite a while.

While Eren’s Titan hardening powers are being put to good use, we see that the tests he’s been undergoing are affecting him physically. But at the point we see this, he’s at a point of just resigning himself to this, thinking he isn’t all that special.

In an earlier episode, when Eren was able to get a glimpse of his father’s memories, he saw a man who had been with his father after Wall Maria had been breached. Eren finally puts two and two together, and realizes that he knows who this man is: Commandant Keith Sadies. Eren, Levi, Hange, and the other main Scouts go to see the commandant, and we are treated to some important backstory. Not only for Sadies and Grisha Jaeger, but for Eren and his mother as well. And during the ending credits, which run through the last sequence of the episode, we finally learn a fact behind something that happened all the way back in the early episodes of the first season. What’s interesting, though, is that this is something I hadn’t caught when I read this section of the manga. Perhaps it had been in there, and I just missed putting two and two together somehow. But there’s something that Sadies says right near the end of the episode that Eren really needed to hear. I think these words will help him to start recovering from the funk he’s been in for the past few episodes, but I think these words will also help to keep him more on the humble side.

While there wasn’t a lot of action in this episode, the backstory we get from Sadies’ flashbacks more than make up for it. I’m really looking forward to how future episodes will adapt the manga material, especially since the anime is getting a lot closer to what I’ve already read in the manga.