To put it in perspective: He’s no longer a box office guarantee. The budget would top 300 mill. It would be R rated. It would be inaccessible to 90% of it’s potential audience (those people who needed cheat sheets to follow The Matrix). He’s slapped on a first time director right now who makes stupid trendy wanna be Spike Jonze videos.
Who says the budget has to be that high? They’ll just do what they do with any movie that has too high a budget, scrap all the important effect-heavy scenes in favor of really crappy ones. Joy!
That’s gonna suck man. The graphic novel was good – better than most – but it was sprawling and half-improvised, not originally being a novel but thousands of instalments in some magazine. The movie, even though it was dense, was way more consistent and was anchored in some of the strongest characters in anime history, not to mention the constant tension and good pacing – the manga meandered like crazy. Ootomo or whatever his name is admitted that himself.
I think the best director in the world could pull it off, but it’s probably gonna end up being lots of effects, no pacing, no character development. Just some pretty pictures.
On the other hand, I’m still pretty hyped for the James Cameron version of Battle Angel, whatever year that comes out.
The problem with the internet and movies is people don’t understand that it takes a miracle for anything to actually get made. The second problem in this scenario is people in movies serially forget that it takes a miracle. So dumbasses who’s “production company” (see: friends sitting around playing PS3 and getting high) are slated to make a remake of something that would cost 300+mill and take 10 years are really just wasting everyone’s time. Part of why it takes a miracle.
i like him in everything accept gilbert grape
and titanic
Tetsuooooooooooooo!!!
~
(For those of you that don’t get it, he’s going to be playing Kaneda in the upcoming live-action Akira remake).
^ I believe the words I’m looking for here are:
1. Holy
2. Shit
3. Fuck
4. No
That’s worse than James Marsters playing Piccolo – at least that man is a decent actor
lol
if u think he can get live action Akira greenlit (about the 50th person to try) I have some magic beans for you to suck out if my peehole.
To put it in perspective: He’s no longer a box office guarantee. The budget would top 300 mill. It would be R rated. It would be inaccessible to 90% of it’s potential audience (those people who needed cheat sheets to follow The Matrix). He’s slapped on a first time director right now who makes stupid trendy wanna be Spike Jonze videos.
Never going to happen.
www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=48910
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/akira_movies/
Oh, and it’s going to be a two parter based on the original graphic novels, with each comprising 3 of the original 6.
@magnus
Who says the budget has to be that high? They’ll just do what they do with any movie that has too high a budget, scrap all the important effect-heavy scenes in favor of really crappy ones. Joy!
Oh, and my original reaction:
FUCK EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD!
Both of the articles that Paul linked say that Leo’s company is going to produce the Akira movie. Says nothing about him staring in it.
That’s gonna suck man. The graphic novel was good – better than most – but it was sprawling and half-improvised, not originally being a novel but thousands of instalments in some magazine. The movie, even though it was dense, was way more consistent and was anchored in some of the strongest characters in anime history, not to mention the constant tension and good pacing – the manga meandered like crazy. Ootomo or whatever his name is admitted that himself.
I think the best director in the world could pull it off, but it’s probably gonna end up being lots of effects, no pacing, no character development. Just some pretty pictures.
On the other hand, I’m still pretty hyped for the James Cameron version of Battle Angel, whatever year that comes out.
Ya know, he might be half attractive if he’d just get rid of the barely-pubescent-boy facial hair.
The problem with the internet and movies is people don’t understand that it takes a miracle for anything to actually get made. The second problem in this scenario is people in movies serially forget that it takes a miracle. So dumbasses who’s “production company” (see: friends sitting around playing PS3 and getting high) are slated to make a remake of something that would cost 300+mill and take 10 years are really just wasting everyone’s time. Part of why it takes a miracle.
Initial reactions to the submission and the following discussion:
1. OH YES!
2. STFU idiots.
Initial reaction to thread:
1. Meh.
2. ????
3. PROFIT!!!