[Film] There is A Movie God...

[Gendo'sPapa]

And like me, he feels the whole idea of making live action adaptations of popular works of anime is fucking RE-TAR-DED.

http://chud.com/articles/articles/19846/1/THE-LONELY-DEATH-OF-AKIRA/Page1.html

[Dartz]

I was hoping the LA movie would lead to *good* replica's of Kaneda's bike. As in rideable at decent speeds replica's...

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

I find the comparison to Watchmen quite apt in the article

like Watchmen was for roughly 20 years, it's only stuck in development hell

we may not see it for years, but IMO it is not dead, it's in a financially-induced coma like most everything else extravagant these days

however, give likes of James Cameron some time, he'd be the most likely to get involved

[BattleMonkey]

Couldn't have been much worse than the anime film

[Guyver Spawn]

A live action Akira would work if they have a good director for the movie. A 3-D CGI movie would be pretty sweet though.

[master_lloyd]

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[Timstuff]

A live action Akira would work if they have a good director for the movie. A 3-D CGI movie would be pretty sweet though.

I don't see the point in remaking Akira as a new animated film. CG movies can be great, but I personally think they've gotten way overrated. Akira is already a top-notch animated film, so I don't really see the need to remake it either in live action or animation.

Yeah, it's kind of ironic that I take the "I don't need an Akira remake" stance considering where I stand on LAEM. I guess it boils down to that I think a live action Evangelion could kick ass, and that a live action Akira is unnecessary. I've never been much of a fan of live action remakes of animated movies, personally.

[Baz]

I wonder why no studio in Japan has stepped up to make a 24 episode Akira anime TV series.
IMHO that's where the franchise should go next.

[Nathan]

I hope it stays dead.

[honsou]

I'm kinda sad about it. Especially because it was going to be 2 movies based on the manga. For all of you who say the Akira movie couldn't have been done better, read the manga and you'll understand how much better the movie could of been. Had decent backing behind it to, though frankly just that the producers were saying "its going to be based on the manga" and not taking the easy way out and simply doing a remake of the movie should be a good sign.

[Nathan]

I'm kinda sad about it. Especially because it was going to be 2 movies based on the manga. For all of you who say the Akira movie couldn't have been done better, read the manga and you'll understand how much better the movie could of been. Had decent backing behind it to, though frankly just that the producers were saying "its going to be based on the manga" and not taking the easy way out and simply doing a remake of the movie should be a good sign.

Nobody is denying the genius of the manga

but Neo-Manhattan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Kaneda...

[BrikHaus]

but Neo-Manhattan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Kaneda...

I thought Leo was just producing it, but not starring. On the flip side, he's a good actor, and probably a lot better than anyone else they could have cast. As far as it being set in the U.S., I don't remember them saying that, although would that really affect the story at all?

[honsou]

Leo was only producing and it was going to be set in NYC. But frankly read the manga and you'll see that it really is NYC anyway. So it was probably the right move to change the setting.

[Gendo'sPapa]

I'm glad it's dead (at the moment at least) because personally I find this whole trend of adapting foreign products into standardized Hollywood product to be one contribution to the ongoing blandness of current Hollywood cinema.
There's been one genuinely great film that was an adaptation of an Asian film and that was THE DEPARTED. And the reason for that success was Martin Scorsese knew what he was doing.

Sure the AKIRA AMERICA was going to be based on the manga (in parts) but I never saw the point of it outside of cheap namebranding (a.la. American Live Action Eva). With the millions of possible stories you could tell would you really need to retell Akira.

And what would be the point of a live action adaptation? That film really pushed the envelope of it's medium which was HAND-DRAWN animation. Sure you could remake it now with CG but we've seen so many huge CG films by now it wouldn't be revolutionary. CG doesn't have that human touch that 2D or practical effects do.

And besides, from this script review aside from Tetsuo becoming TRAVIS and the presence of "inevitable black gang member" it really wasn't going to be all that original a story.

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-a-look-at-the-live-action-akira-remake-akira-part-1-5678

[honsou]

From the script, other then some name changes its almost identical to the Manga. The only difference is Kaori plays the same role she did in the movie, as the girlfriend instead of slave girl that helps Tetsuo out with his craziness (as by that sentence should show, the manga is VERY different). I still think it would be cool to see the manga up on screen as all we got in the movie was the first half and a bastardized ending.

[backseatjesus]

If only remakes of foriegn films were executed as well as Fistful Of Dollars.

About Live-Action "remakes" of anime or manga, leave it to Japan or at least Independent film makers. Some of them may lack the technology to make things look 100% realistic, but at least they'd make them faithful and interesting.

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

If only remakes of foreign films were executed as well as Fistful Of Dollars.

where's Sergio Leone when you need him?

ha ha, he made that based on Yojimbo

[Soljer13]

oh Thank baby jesus and the jewish god! Now, I hope they kill the Live Action Eva Movie.

[xtr00kvltcorex]

i'm glad its dead, and hopefully it stays dead. eva live should be dead. in fact all american adaptions of asian works should be dead, because quite frankly we suck at adaptations.

[Soljer13]

i'm glad its dead, and hopefully it stays dead. eva live should be dead. in fact all american adaptions of asian works should be dead, because quite frankly we suck at adaptations.

Amen to that my friend!