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Who Needs Anime? (Live Action Akira)
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I'm being facetious. It's like a bitch-slap donkey punch in the nuts to Anime itself. (But was inevitable, right?)
Two films, the first one will be released next summer, even though the 1st draft of the script isn't finished.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... id=13&cs=1
Live action versions of Anime movies should never be made. It's like taking an Iron Maiden album and turning it into a novel. -
Well, fuck.
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[quote="Pazuzu"]I'm being facetious. It's like a bitch-slap donkey punch in the nuts to Anime itself. (But was inevitable, right?)
Two films, the first one will be released next summer, even though the 1st draft of the script isn't finished.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... id=13&cs=1
Live action versions of Anime movies should never be made. It's like taking an Iron Maiden album and turning it into a novel.
But an Iron Maiden album is very much like a novel, a freakin awesome rock novel. -
Anyone who consciously writes down 'exec veep' should be shot.
Also "New Manhattan" is played out. It's Neo-New Manhattan these days. -
I'm sure it'll be just as good as all those other American-made anime-to-live-action projects. Like, er, Fist Of The North Star....
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The rumored cast actually had me perk up. DiCaprio as Kaneda and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tetsuo. Sure, it'll be weird and a mess, but it's a weird mess I'd be interested in seeing, unlike a Stephen Norrington movie, which we almost got.
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If this live action American anime adaptation does not include both Downtown Julie Brown and Clint Howard, I will be sorely disappointed.
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Does it also include the sunken battleship Arizona rebuilt as a spaceship, like in that "live-action Star Blazers" from a few years ago?
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Yeah, why do people get excited about this shit? When are these movies ever actually MADE?
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what about the live action plays for Dragon ball Z and Bleach!
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Here's hoping it's better than the Live Action Sailor Moon and Devilman
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I'm gonna say this is probably another "HAY GUYS THEYRE MAKING A MOVIE BASED ON X SHOW BUT NOT REALLY" thing until they really start filming. They've been talking about making an Akira movie for like, 50 years at this point.
Also, live action Sailor Moon is brilliant. Brilliant brilliant. -
Only the Japanese ones get made. Like Cutey Honey. The Hollywood ones don't.
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Otomo, how could you do this?
[quote="Otomo Katsuhiro"]Sorry, I can’t hear you. I’m surrounded by piles of money.
Hopefully it’ll just idle in development hell forever. If they’re Americanizing it (neo-tokyo = new manhattan) then they’ll probably change the character names. And since Akira is a common Japanese name shouldn’t the American version be called “Larry” or something?
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Akira
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/Rutilcaper/Podcast/158964-akira_150.jpg -
[quote="Dave"]Akira
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/Rutilcaper/Podcast/158964-akira_150.jpg
I thought it was a dude at first, then i was like "fucking awesome, it's a chick under all that cool armor!" -
That Dragonball movie is getting made. . . it's 10 years too late and undoubtedly going to be a disaster, but it's getting made. G-Force and Astroboy, too, though they're CG, not live action. Could we technically count Speed Racer?
I know majority of these projects never get off the ground, but when properties like Akira come up as often as they do, eventually its going to happen. Look at Watchmen. -
I wasnt a Monster movie
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[quote="karaokeninja"]Only the Japanese ones get made. Like Cutey Honey. The Hollywood ones don't.
But that Eva movie's just round the corner! The (nearly bankrupt) ADV saaaaaid. -
I feel like I'd die in the theater at the sight of the Live action Akira....Here's hoping it doesn't get made...Of course it's be better than a certain US movie based on a certain akira toriyama work...
I agree with Chronocross on the Monster Movie, but I feel that 20th century boys would work better (Wasn't that announced a few years ago by new line Cinema?)
I'd personally like to see a live-action Claymore or Berserk...actually....*Shudders* -
Man, 20th century boys is going to be awesome!
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I dunno, actually. It'll probably be fun to watch the original and then go see this and compare. -
Who we kiddin'? Good or bad, we're all going to see it.
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Jerry's right. I'm pretty much in the bag.
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agreed
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I managed to stay out of the Micheal Bay Transformers, so I probably won't end up seeing the live action Akira (assuming it takes a turn for the lame).
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Agreed, while I hate Cloverfield, I still went and saw it.
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My new english class has a kid named Akira and a kid named Tetsuo, and everytime I call his name on roll call i go
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -
[quote="Roleplayer"]My new english class has a kid named Akira and a kid named Tetsuo, and everytime I call his name on roll call i go
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Have you checked them for super powers ? -
I'm wary of this, but going to go see it just like everybody else here probably. DiCaprio isn't a bad actor or anything. On the contrary, from what I've seen of him he's pretty good. but I really don't see him as a convincing Kaneda. He doesn't have the right look. That Jason Gordon Levitt dude I don't know crap about, but he looks like a passable Tetsuo. To be anywhere close to the quality of the original its going to need a really talented writer to adapt it and a colossal budget.
"Neo Manhattan"... wow. Already feeling uneasy about this. -
Don't worry, it probably won't ever come out.
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Hah... true. I bet there is a Bollywood version out there somewhere though. And if not, there should be.
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http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Zac-Efron-offered-the-lead-in-Akira.jpg
Zach Effron offered lead role in Akira
I'm currently reading through the manga for the first time and it's astonishing how much better it is in comparrison to the film. I still don't understand why Hollywood would want to adapt Akira. -
[quote="God"]I still don't understand why Hollywood would want to adapt Akira.
Money. -
Money isn't a sufficient motivator in this case, since these adaptations have a consistent pattern of tanking hard at the box office. I think creative bankruptcy must also be taken into consideration as a factor.
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Yes, creative bankruptcy is a longstanding factor.
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Like I said months ago, don't worry, it probably won't ever come out.
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There's actually a part of me that wants to see live action Akira.
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Zach Effron offered lead role in Akira
So they managed to find an even more inappropriate casting choice than DiCaprio? -
I'm pretty sure the only connection to the film he ever had was as a producer.
Post sum catz. -
From what i understand, the two movies are gonna be based of the manga, which the manga goes well into the story than the anime did.
Im currently on the 4th volume right now, but the first 3 books are really amazing to read. All i ask if they take the major parts out of the first 3 books into like a 2 and a half hour movie and use the manga as a screenplay kinda like how Watchman was done (which from what I read really did come from the comic or most of it).
I guess as long as its more faithful to the manga than the anime, its gonna be really good if they keep it that way, thats kinda how I look at it for this movie. -
You know they're Americanizing it, right? And that it's supposed to be set in New York? Given that the location of the story (ie: Neo-Tokyo) is even more important in the manga than the film I don't have much hope even if it is based on the manga.
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Neo New York.
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Well, even Old New York was once New Amsterdam.
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[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]Well, even Old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Why'd they change it? -
I can't say.
People just like it better that way? -
[quote="ZeonicFreak"]Im currently on the 4th volume right now, but the first 3 books are really amazing to read. All i ask if they take the major parts out of the first 3 books into like a 2 and a half hour movie and use the manga as a screenplay kinda like how Watchman was done (which from what I read really did come from the comic or most of it).
So you want it to bomb like Watchmen? -
I finished up Akira last week and it fantastic. Anyone who hasn't read it before, definitely needs to check it out.
The Zac Effron/Kaneda thing was debunked or something.
I'd just hope that they take the core elements of the film (Kaneda, Tetsuo, mutant psychi children, the Colonel, SOL, post-apocalypse) and make their film be inspired by the anime and manga. I hope they don't even all it Akira -
They're changing Tetsuo's name to Travis.
I knew they where gonna fuck this up.
Just picture it. "TRRRRAAAAAVVVVIIIIISSSSSS!" -
Why would they change any of the names? Does it still take place in Neo Tokyo? Is it still named Akira? Why would having a main character named Tetsuo be a larger barrier than either of these two things? Boo, I say, boo.
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