Paranoia Agent is being adapted to Live Action

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Paranoia Agent is being adapted to Live Action

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Postby backseatjesus » Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:31 pm

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/18413

This could work if the right people are involved. I don't think Takashi Shimizu is the right guy though.

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Postby LeoXiao » Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:24 pm

Even as far as anime goes, this was a really weird show. It would be an insane live-action.

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Postby THE Hal E. Burton 9000 » Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:51 pm

I love this idea

the show definitely got too hard to follow about half way through, but if they can condense and simplify it to just one or a few films, this could work really nicely
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Postby child of Lilith » Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:52 pm

I see a massive train-wreck on the horizon.

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Postby Eva Yojimbo » Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:26 pm

child of Lilith wrote:I see a massive train-wreck on the horizon.
This.
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Postby NAveryW » Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:34 pm

I don't see any benefits in making Paranoia Agent live action. It's one of those things that seems (and certainly was) tailor made to work specifically as animation.

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Postby backseatjesus » Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:58 am

NAveryW wrote:I don't see any benefits in making Paranoia Agent live action. It's one of those things that seems (and certainly was) tailor made to work specifically as animation.

Possible entertainment is always the benefit.

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Postby MugwumpHasNoLiver » Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:15 pm

This is still Japanese, right? We don't need to worry about this possible disaster tarnishing PA's good name stateside?
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Postby Xard » Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:21 pm

I could see this working if Lynch directed

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Postby Sachi » Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:23 pm

Not going to hold my breath for something good, but this would at least be interesting to go see. Heck, maybe they'll get it right this time.
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Postby Xard » Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:24 pm

Sachi wrote:Not going to hold my breath for something good, but this would at least be interesting to go see. Heck, maybe they'll get it right this time.


"this time"?

Paranoia Agent is awesome as it is!

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Postby Sachi » Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:28 pm

Xard wrote:
Sachi wrote:Not going to hold my breath for something good, but this would at least be interesting to go see. Heck, maybe they'll get it right this time.

"this time"?

Paranoia Agent is awesome as it is!

"This time" as in, "maybe they'll get a live action adaptation right this time".

I loved Paranoia Agent.
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Postby Xard » Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:31 pm

Sachi wrote:
Xard wrote:
Sachi wrote:Not going to hold my breath for something good, but this would at least be interesting to go see. Heck, maybe they'll get it right this time.

"this time"?

Paranoia Agent is awesome as it is!

"This time" as in, "maybe they'll get a live action adaptation right this time".

I loved Paranoia Agent.


Ahh, sorry ^_^

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Postby backseatjesus » Fri Dec 25, 2009 8:03 pm

Xard wrote:I could see this working if Lynch directed

That's exactly who I was thinking about, but kind of backed off from saying because I've been mentioning him too much. Hell, I think he's perfect for most psychological/abstract animes. I'd shit bricks if he adapted Monster.

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Postby Eva Yojimbo » Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:18 pm

Xard wrote:I could see this working if Lynch directed
True. Bunuel would've been a better choice if he were alive, but Lynch is the next best choice.
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Postby Xard » Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:40 pm

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Xard wrote:I could see this working if Lynch directed
True. Bunuel would've been a better choice if he were alive, but Lynch is the next best choice.


would Bunuel have the knowledge to work with today's CGI laced world of film adaptations though? Granted I haven't seen much of Bunuel but PA has always struck me more Lynchian film...

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Postby Eva Yojimbo » Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:48 pm

The great directors always keep up with technological advancements so I'm sure he could've. Though PA as live action wouldn't have to necessarily be heavily CGI's, and Lynch is hardly a CGI-savant anyway. The thing about PA is that it's a very socially/culturally conscious kind of surrealism where Lynch is a much more interior, psychological kind of surrealist director. Bunuel almost always engineered his surrealism towards social concerns, which is where I think he would've excelled with PA.
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Postby Xard » Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:51 pm

I understand. I guess I just look at "general style" of both directors (Lynch and Kon, of course) and see great deal of similarities in their form, especially in visuals :shrug:

(both Kon and Lynch after all tend to work with very mundane world that suddenly is invaded by strangeness. Kon's realist animation style furthen strenghtens the "mundane world reveals its absurd underbelly" Lynchian style of Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks etc.)

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Postby Eva Yojimbo » Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:12 pm

We're talking about a difference of small degrees, really. Bunuel just has that sense of virulent biting satire that Lynch lacks, while Lynch is more psychologically piercing, and I just see the former fitting better with PA. Lynch is still the obvious second choice.
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Postby BrikHaus » Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:09 pm

It's going to be a Japanese live action film, which means it's going to suck ass. I mean, when they cast Chubby Light and Diabetic L in the live action Death Note, you know that there is already no hope for Paranoia Agent.
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