Check out the latest poster for the upcoming film Astro Boy. For those who didn’t know him, he is the first Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiarized as anime. It originated as a manga in 1951 by Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka.

The story of Astro Boy is set in a futuristic world where androids co-exist with humans. Its focus is on the adventures of the titular “Astro Boy” (or simply “Astro”), a powerful robot created by the head of the Ministry of Science Doctor Tenma to replace his son Tobio.

Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in the United States and other Western countries, and again in 2003.

There has been no word as of the moment yet if the story of the film will be based on this, but hopefully it will. But for now, let’s enjoy the poster. The film is scheduled to be released later in 2009.

Note: Poster image taken from Collider.com