Akira the movie green lighted

[Jeneki]

Tetsuo and Kaneda are now brothers and have a fight in a Bowling alley

They need to rename him Canada and have him wear maple leaf shirts and stuff. And play the Blame Canada song during the fight. And as the city is being engulfed in destruction start up the chant "Weeeeeee've got rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks ..."

[kid aphex]

http://youtu.be/d3fQv395RgM (only loosely related...but I thought some of us older folk would appreciate it)

[GaijinPunch]

http://youtu.be/d3fQv395RgM (only loosely related...but I thought some of us older folk would appreciate it)

Very nice. I've gotta go through some of the classics that don't make my butthole pucker.

[mesh control]

i was waiting rgor dirty pair.

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[Stormwatch]

i was waiting rgor dirty pair.

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Friends don't let friends post drunk.

[BryanM]

How could it be any better than the Gantz, Avatar, or Dragon Ball live action movies?

Do you want to know why Ghostbusters III must happen, no matter how awful? Ernie Hudson was in Dragon Ball Evolution. Do it for Ernie.

Oh, and in case you were worried, they do indeed plan to make a new American Godzilla flick.

(I'm hesitant to even give the new Torchwood season a try.)

[Leader Bee]

Answer?: Neo New York---9/11 references and everything. check out the leaked script, then kill yourself.

Kind of like what they did with The War of the Worlds setting it in modern day America rather than victorian England, like the source material.

I hate Hollywood and it's obvious lack of respect for source material.

[NTSC-J]

[replayme]

Answer?: Neo New York---9/11 references and everything. check out the leaked script, then kill yourself.

Kind of like what they did with The War of the Worlds setting it in modern day America rather than victorian England, like the source material.

I hate Hollywood and it's obvious lack of respect for source material.

it's more to do with the amount of money at stake. any self-respecting film fan (although this could be applied to any other medium) knows that the bigger the franchise/ip, and the more money that is at stake, the less there will be in terms of innovation and risk-taking.

catering for the average american, who couldn't care less about the original setting, allows the film-makers to target the largest (and most common) denominator, and make the most money as a consequence.

but why stop at just hollywood? even in other aspects of commerce and society, we see the same problem arising, with blandness and mediocrity being celebrated.

not mentioning any names/games/forums/companies...

edit: personally, i'd be asking myself the question as to why k otomo even allowed his baby to be raped by the hollywood machine.

editx2: my bad. not sure as to the reasons why k otomo approved of the project, but this little interview with david fincher is worth a read - just to realise that it isn't always the script-writers/directors who are at fault.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 41578.html

gee. just reading that makes me want to throttle a few people. but hey, i'm not a glorified tool like them anymore.

[Ebbo]

Answer?: Neo New York---9/11 references and everything. check out the leaked script, then kill yourself.

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Perfect reaction.

Now I'm even more worried what will happen to the inevitable Gunnm movie...

[Skykid]

http://youtu.be/d3fQv395RgM (only loosely related...but I thought some of us older folk would appreciate it)

Interesting, we didn't get that one here. The first Anime VHS distributor we got were Island World Video who handled a lot of world cinema and independent stuff. I've still got my original Akira VHS from them (signed by Cam Clarke no less) which came out prior to Manga, Pioneer labels etc.

I was introduced to manga through the comic book scene and was collecting the Marvel Akira colorisations when I discovered the movie. I think I was about 9 yrs old at the time. Wow.

When the Manga label launched, this is the one most guys in the UK will remember (Uh!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlt2cJI ... re=related

[Icarus]

Tetsuo and Kaneda are now brothers and have a fight in a Bowling alley

They need to rename him Canada and have him wear maple leaf shirts and stuff.

[Rebel Ninja]

This thread just reminded me, is the Hollywood "Neon Genesis Evangelion" movie still going ahead? Wasn't there some dispute between Gainax and A.D Vision over acceptance of payment for the live-action rights to the franchise?

[Leader Bee]

I heard Weta Workshop were involved but this was some time ago. All the material that i've seen has surmounted to nothing more than concept art and that Auska Langley will be known as Kate Rose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdP606fFPyE

[Obiwanshinobi]

It's not going to mangle the source material any more than the 1988 flick, is it?

[kid aphex]

It's not going to mangle the source material any more than the 1988 flick, is it?

lol, touche. still, the movie was made by otomo. more hard work and effort went into its crafting than any movie i've seen or heard of since. so the disparity between manga/anime isn't very offensive to me

[GaijinPunch]

It's not going to mangle the source material any more than the 1988 flick, is it?

Yeah, the movie deviated so far from the manga. Most people don't know that in the manga they raced tricycles and went to cosplay conventions every Saturday.

[Skykid]

It's not going to mangle the source material any more than the 1988 flick, is it?

Yeah, the movie deviated so far from the manga. Most people don't know that in the manga they raced tricycles and went to cosplay conventions every Saturday.

Exactly.

Otomo had no choice but to condense and cut the manga down, as it really only could have been done as a serialisation given the sheer amount of content. I think he did the right thing as a director by reinventing the film rather than attempt to compact the books, keeping the most important aspects of the narrative.

[JJXB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlt2cJI ... re=related

dat promo. my girlfriend's still got the VHS tapes for dominion tank police and new dominion tank police that have that stuff on it.

[replayme]

http://youtu.be/d3fQv395RgM (only loosely related...but I thought some of us older folk would appreciate it)

Interesting, we didn't get that one here. The first Anime VHS distributor we got were Island World Video who handled a lot of world cinema and independent stuff. I've still got my original Akira VHS from them (signed by Cam Clarke no less) which came out prior to Manga, Pioneer labels etc.

I was introduced to manga through the comic book scene and was collecting the Marvel Akira colorisations when I discovered the movie. I think I was about 9 yrs old at the time. Wow.

When the Manga label launched, this is the one most guys in the UK will remember (Uh!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlt2cJI ... re=related

i think mine is island world video too. as for collecting akira, i bought issue 3 on a whim in a comic shop in croydon when i was about 14. that issue started my short-lived japanese comic and anime craze.

as for the youtube video - i think some guy sums it up best...

"ah... the golden age of anime....i wonder if we will see a era like this again...."

i have quite a few videos with that intro on it.

[NTSC-J]

It's not going to mangle the source material any more than the 1988 flick, is it?

[Obiwanshinobi]

[PC Engine Fan X!]

The live-action film of Fist of The North Star (circa 1995) was utter trash. The anime series of the same name is the one to watch indeed.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Jeneki]

Ugh, I had cleansed that movie out of my mind.

[greg]

This thread just reminded me, is the Hollywood "Neon Genesis Evangelion" movie still going ahead? Wasn't there some dispute between Gainax and A.D Vision over acceptance of payment for the live-action rights to the franchise?

AD Vision is dead. It splintered off into different sub-companies. I don't know who owns the English rights to Eva.

I remember there was also supposed to be talks of a live-action Robotech or Macross movie, which would suck too.

I remember way long ago there was rumors of somebody doing a Mai the Psychic Girl movie too, by James Cameron or somebody (I don't think it was Spielburg).

[Mortificator]

It's stupid to make anime where the characters have crazy powers (and hair) into live-action, but I think one of Robotech/Macross could work. It just needs to be handled by someone like Ronald Moore instead of someone like George Lucas. I might even settle for Chris Roberts.

[Obiwanshinobi]

I liked the 2007 Dororo live action film.

[neorichieb1971]

Once someone made a thread here that Japanese make crappy live action movies. So making a Western live action movie based on a Japanese anime seems like a bad idea. There are some directors that could pull it off, but unfortunately those directors rarely indulge in cult material unless they created it as initial early works.

[DragonInstall]

Am I the only one who didn't think Akira was a good movie? The animation was pretty nice for anime standards, but the story never pulled me in.

On the side note: A movie adaptation could be pretty cool, and I don't think the setting being in New York would really ruin the movie.

[Skykid]

The animation was pretty nice for anime standards

Yeah, I guess it was okay.