Leitch and Kelly McCormick will produce the project via their company 87North along with Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven, Training Day, The Equalizer) and Kat Samick (The Equalizer, Southpaw, Infinite).
Plot details for the film are currently being kept under wraps, but it is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Isaka Kotaro.
On top of directing, Leitch will supervise the script written by Zak Olkewicz (Fear Street).
Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada are executive producing in behalf of Kotaro.