QUOTE(AA battery @ Aug 21 2008, 06:24 PM)

THEY BETTER NOT CHANGE THE VOICE ACTING CAST! I WANT KUGIMII AS ALPHONSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*ish extremely incredibly happy*
This news almost made me forget how sad Nabari no Ou chapter 50 was.
■[アニメ]荒川弘「鋼の錬金術師」TVアニメ新シリーズ始動! このエントリーを含むブックマーク
明日発売の原作最新20巻の帯にて正式発表。BONES流出資料の情報が正しければ、監督は入江泰浩氏?ちなみに、以前頂いた情報通りなら、内容は原作準拠のストーリーでの再アニメ化となり、1年シリーズで、来年4月より毎週日曜17時からMBS・TBS系列にて放送開始予定とのことですが。
It says it is going to be a one year long series (so around 52 episodes?) and it's gonna re-animate the original story. It should start airing in the coming April, on Sunday at 5pm (note: planned airing time, so I guess it's still subject to change...). The director is gonna be someone else (I dunno how to romanize that name), not Mizushima.
Beware!
For If I got it right what you are quoting is a news entry from some other page...
And it reads "The 20th volume will announce a new FMA anime.
If the information from the "BONES list" was true the director will be Forgot-his-name Irie. Furthermore
if the information from before (dunno which one, probably that guy's webpage?) [/b]is true[/b] it will be for 1 year..." etc., everything you said.
It's a rough bad translation, but what I'm pointing out is that so far only the 2nd series has been confirmed, but not yet that it'll be a retelling of the manga.
(Here's the tag that came with volume 20 BTW:

It says "a new series", but not what will it be. And the link is only about the boxset...)
It's most probable it'll end up being such, as all other rumors were true, but it's still not confirmed yet. Be careful.

And I'm guessing they'll keep the seiyuus, they always take a lot of care with that, don't they?