by 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."