Whole Company Dedicated to Live Action Adaptations of Anime

[NAveryW]

and Manga and Games and French Comics. Because we all know how well every single one of those always turns out.

...Someone else remembers the Asterix movie, right?

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

this company is very likely to be bankrupt in about five or six years

sorry to be so negative, and I could be totally wrong, but I don't see how this will accomplish what is intended by the primary players

[Themaninblack]

this company is very likely to be bankrupt in about five or six years

sorry to be so negative, and I could be totally wrong, but I don't see how this will accomplish what is intended by the primary players

Basically them learning adapt to turn manga/anime properties over to a mainstream audience. They plan on failing once or twice untill they learn how to do it. Sounds simple enough.

Also if they decide to go low budget, but well crafted works...then they will succeed if just because of an inevitable cult following.

But Reeves as Spike...EEEHHHHH

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

hey, don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to see this done right, hell I'd love to see live action Eva if it's done right

I just don't see who can do that now

[Themaninblack]

hey, don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to see this done right, hell I'd love to see live action Eva if it's done right

I just don't see who can do that now

I personally can't wait for Monster, the person who wrote "A History of Violence" did the screen play. So it can be done.

Hell James Cameron is doing Burst Angel and Spielberg is doing Ghost in the Shell, need I say more?

[NAveryW]

Hell James Cameron is doing Burst Angel

Battle Angel.

and Spielberg is doing Ghost in the Shell, need I say more?

From the director of 1941 and the executive producer of Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain comes the film about a woman who goes topless to become invisible that inspired Matrix Revolutions.

[Guyver Spawn]

The Cowboy Bebop movie does seem to give me more hopes that it will become decent. I don't think this studio won't do that bad.

[Mr. Tines]

Hell James Cameron is doing Burst Angel

Battle Angel.

Though a James Cameron Burst Angel would be something fascinating to behold -- like a multiple car pileup.

From the director of 1941...

Exactly

[Themaninblack]

From the director of 1941...

Exactly

Now your being nasty just to be nasty. You do know comic book movies USED to suck and now a few of them are pretty damn good. I don't know what it is about nerds having their favorite products shipped to the silver screen and them becoming that homeless man on the street that has the mis spelled cardboard sign that says "REPENT THE END IS NEAR"

I really do mean that, you have NO reason to be worried on the former two. None. Both of them have done crap, but both have done more than their fair share of good films and classics. But since its going to be slightly different from what you remember the sky MUST fall.

Its actually a long shot both will be pieces of crap, oods are since two directors are taking a shot at two different products once is bound to be good, but I digress...Fan Dumb has no logic behind it.

[Gendo'sPapa]

A. Cowboy Bebop stars Keanu Reeves. I'm sorry the man cannot play cool like Spike. He's just....a blank vacuum. The Matrix was a franchise that succeeded off cool images with vapid empty characters. Cowboy Bebop, even with cool images, is embodied by it's strong character structure and just how cool they are. Considering Fox has brought in their own yes men to rewrite the script and make it cheaper (and more hip undoubtably) I'm not expecting much.

B. I can't see Steven Spielberg directing "Ghost in the Shell". Man has about 50 projects he's lined up to direct and I can see GITC being at the bottom of that list. Most likely he'll just hand it off to some prick who has shallow sensibilities (I love the Berg but this is that man that "produced" both Transformer films)

C. Battle Angel by James Cameron will be amazing but I doubt it will have little in common with the manga. Cameron would want to do his own thing, not just repeat someone's story.

D. Live Action Evangelion would flat out suck balls.

E. This production company sounds like over budgeted cosplay and seeing as 90% of anime just doesn't translate well to a movie screen (put a 12 year old in a plugsuit and you're in Polanski territory, put a girl in a Sailor Scout uniform and you're a joke, make anyone look like Kaworu in real life and the film may as well bend over to take it) this company will be out of a job in 4 films.

[backseatjesus]

D. Live Action Evangelion would flat out suck balls.

You're just lying to yourself.

Every anime/manga has a chance to be adapted in a great way, it's just there's not that many companies that will actually get GOOD directors and GOOD writers to work on them. Even if they do get the good directors and writers, the companies usually are fucking assholes and limit the creativity and a majority of adaptations are made simply with the mainstream audience in mind.

[Themaninblack]

B. I can't see Steven Spielberg directing "Ghost in the Shell". Man has about 50 projects he's lined up to direct and I can see GITC being at the bottom of that list. Most likely he'll just hand it off to some prick who has shallow sensibilities (I love the Berg but this is that man that "produced" both Transformer films)

I agree with C. to start with.

B.) Means you haven't heard ANY interviews with the man. He adores GITS, more so than some of his previous works. He just plans on doing the Lincoln movie first. I can wait.

[Gendo'sPapa]

Show me the interviews and I won't call Bullshit.

The man tends to sit on projects he wants to do and pass off others he wants to produce. He's sat on Interstellar, Lincoln, and a couple others for over a decade. Besides, he's not set to do Lincoln yet. His next film is a remake of HARVEY and he's pursuing Robert Downey Jr for the role.

[Guyver Spawn]

I thought Steven was the producer of Ghost in the Shell?

[SaltyJoe]

But Reeves as Spike...EEEHHHHH

Well, if nothing else, the concept already inspired a pretty hilarious shoop.

[schismatics]

But Reeves as Spike...EEEHHHHH

Well, if nothing else, the concept already inspired a pretty hilarious shoop.

THAT BETTER BE IN THE GODDAMN MOVIE.

[thewayneiac]

Hell James Cameron is doing Burst Angel

Battle Angel.

Though a James Cameron Burst Angel would be something fascinating to behold -- like a multiple car pileup.

In other words it would be a lot like the original?

[Guyver Spawn]

James Cameron Battle Angel sounds like a awesome movie, I think it comes out in 2012 or 2013 since he said he wants to work on it after Avatar comes out.

Live Action Evangelion would flat out suck balls.

If the movie has a good director, and a great screenplay then maybe we will get a good live action Eva movie IMO.

[SaltyJoe]

If the movie has a good director, and a great screenplay then maybe we will get a good live action Eva movie IMO.

So if it's good, then it will be good?

[Guyver Spawn]

But Reeves as Spike...EEEHHHHH

Well, if nothing else, the concept already inspired a pretty hilarious shoop.

That was pretty good for the person who made it but I think spike in the movie will actually look more ridiculous and less faithful than that pic.