Do you think James Cameron could direct a live action NGE

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Postby Asunji_Yuko » Tue May 23, 2023 7:19 am

I heard he did an okay job as producer on Battle Angel Alita, soooooo...

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Postby Blockio » Tue May 23, 2023 9:53 am

Hollywood Evangelion would probably not be good under just about any circumstances, but if I had to give it to any one director, it would either be Cameron or Del Toro, with Legendary and ILM on the technical side.
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Postby C.T.1290 » Wed May 24, 2023 9:55 pm

I’m not sure if Anno would want Hollywood to be touching his EVA works.
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Postby Blockio » Thu May 25, 2023 4:22 am

He definitely would not, and for good reason.
For every Pacific Rim that understands the kinds of things Eva is saying, there's ten Pacific Rim Uprisings that instead rather plays trololo music over the climactic launch. Hollywood Eva could be good if all the stars aligned and execs were unanimously banned from the writers' board, but tough luck of that ever happening, so I'd much rather not see that one happen at all.
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Postby C.A.P. » Fri May 26, 2023 2:20 am

I rather have Alita 2.

I think a better question to ask is if anyone's done a live action version of an anime that actually works.
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Postby C.T.1290 » Fri May 26, 2023 11:35 pm

View Original PostC.A.P. wrote:I rather have Alita 2.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a sequel yet, since the film turned out good. And I haven’t even seen the original one yet.
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Postby Asunji_Yuko » Sat May 27, 2023 3:26 pm

View Original PostC.A.P. wrote:I rather have Alita 2.

I think a better question to ask is if anyone's done a live action version of an anime that actually works.


Well, was the first Alita any good?

Just remember, he's James Cameron....no budget too steep, no sea too deep!

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Postby Blockio » Sun May 28, 2023 6:32 pm

Alita was very good. I missed the opportunity to see it in theaters a second time, but I had solid plans of doing so; that's the only movie that has ever done that for me (although mostly by virtue of me not actually going to theaters a lot, there's a couple others that would have had a similar response)
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Postby nerv bae » Thu Jun 22, 2023 8:02 pm

View Original PostC.A.P. wrote:I rather have Alita 2.
Blockio wrote:Alita was very good.

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Postby soul.assassin » Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:18 pm

To answer the question, and given just how adaptations are mostly misses than hits, and are usually unpopular with purists... no, it's unlikely.

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Postby Blockio » Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:39 am

But that's the question, isn't it? Could Cameron break that pattern of mediocrity (besides the fact that listening to purists is in general rarely a good idea)
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Postby soul.assassin » Sat Jul 01, 2023 12:45 pm

View Original PostBlockio wrote:But that's the question, isn't it? Could Cameron break that pattern of mediocrity (besides the fact that listening to purists is in general rarely a good idea)


Some fans are chasing this pipe dream of a live-action adaptation for two decades, and I personally prefer to leave it as it is. If I know my understanding about film production, and things like the 1984 adaptation of Dune, no sane producer is willing to dunk in millions of dollars for a high-risk intellectual property and still unknown outside of Japan, and that most will never understand easily.

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Postby Blockio » Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:28 pm

I cannot help but feel you are rather majorly missing the point of the question.
It's not about if it will happen (no), but if a hypothetical could realistically be made to work in the unrealistic scenario that it does happen
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Your point of view is horny, and biased. ~ glitz2hard
What about titty-ten? ~ Reichu
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Postby soul.assassin » Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:13 pm

Yeah, it can be done. The question is whether it's going to sell, to recoup all the costs of production.


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