Akira, Live Action by Warner and DiCaprio

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Akira, Live Action by Warner and DiCaprio

Postby Ishbalan » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:59 pm

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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:04 pm

and the anime people did it in one movie. :amv:
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Postby CodeZTM » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:41 pm

Just kill it now.... :evil:
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Postby angelx03 » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:33 pm

CodeChrono wrote:Just kill it now.... :evil:


What happened to the ol' "wait and see" bit? Sheesh! :roll:
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Postby CodeZTM » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:43 pm

angelx03 wrote:
CodeChrono wrote:Just kill it now.... :evil:


What happened to the ol' "wait and see" bit? Sheesh! :roll:


Because Akira, to me, was the antichrist of the anime world. Eva, I can handle. Akira? Un-uh... :O
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Postby EmilLang1000 » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:57 pm

The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:and the anime people did it in one movie. :amv:


Uh, actually, no they didn't. If you ever read the comic, they left out a LOT, including the introduction of Akira himself.
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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:59 pm

EmilLang1000 wrote:
The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:and the anime people did it in one movie. :amv:


Uh, actually, no they didn't. If you ever read the comic, they left out a LOT, including the introduction of Akira himself.


Well damn, I've got some reading to do and people to kill...
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Postby Sukunai » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:29 pm

This is what is wrong with the film.

"The first live-action film is scheduled for release in the summer of 2009 and will move the story's setting to "'New Manhattan,' a city rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years ago."

Why can't they leave it where it originally was? Oh yeah right, anything made for Americans couldn't possibly acknowledge somewhere else being interesting. Just like they had to have the anorexic pregnant Americanized Godzilla trash New York.

Cloverfield was a nice film. It shows that Hollywood CAN make an original film if they want. I just wish they would want to more often.

I'm a purest, if they want to call it Akira, why not make it properly in Tokyo?
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Postby Mithroch » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:45 pm

I used to be a purest... but as I grow older I find that as long as the spirit of the characters and story remains true to the original work I don't mind changes for the almighty dollar. In fact... I think more people are likely to watch the original after seeing the movie version. Books and foreign films that are remade by Hollywood always see a spike in sales. Why would this be any different? I may not have like some of the things that Peter Jackson did to LotR... but I can't argue that tons more people read the books because of the movies.

On a side note... has anybody seen any updates on James Cameron's attempt to bring Battle Angel to the screen?
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Postby macchinainterna » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:46 am

O . . . M . . . F . . . G . . . :?

. . . I . . . really don't know how to feel about this . . .
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Postby DocturKnowles » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:53 pm

Adapting anime titles to live action would in 99% of all cases be an impressive disaster.

Why you ask? Or maybe you didn't. Whatever.

Because you can do things with animation that you simply cannot do with live action. CG does some amazing things these days but if you're going to make the vast majority of the show CG, why call it "live action" at all?

Eva, DBZ, Akira, Speedracer, Battle Angel...gag me with a spoon. Putting aside that I dislike every one of those shows, can't they just leave the genre alone? I can see it now:

Uwe Boll has announced his acquisition of the rights to Escaflowne. He is quoted as following, "We, and by we I mean I, have decided to move the setting from Japan to Chicago. Further, the main character will be renamed Katalina and instead of being pulled into a different dimension, she will instead be sucked into the coin return slot in a prominently displayed Coke machine."
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Postby jikap » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:17 pm

While i don't really mind a Hollywood version... why "New Manhattan"? =.=
Does it really hurt sales so much if you leave it in Tokyo?
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Postby Kevmaster » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:43 pm

Oh? I thought they did this already?
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Postby Mithroch » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:43 pm

Harder to sell Japan to an American audience... and probably a lot cheaper to shoot in the US (though I'm not positive). Also... most recognized US actors are Caucasian... doesn't make a lot of sense for them to be in Tokyo. You can get away with Europe since its also heavily Caucasian (though for some reason they still decided to make Constantine an American based in LA... I hate Keanu).
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Postby DocturKnowles » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:03 pm

Dude! How many anime characters actually look Japanese? Green, pink, and spikey yellow hair aside. :D
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