| Check here for the full article. "According to the trades, Warner Bros. will turn anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo's six-volume graphic novel "Akira" into two live-action feature films, the first of which is being fast tracked for release in summer 2009. Each feature will be based on three of the books in Otomo's series. The story takes place in New Manhattan, a metropolis that was rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years earlier. Dr. Strangefist is a huge fan of the 1988 anime and recently took a look at the script by Gary Whitta. He chimes in with his thoughts below." What are your thoughts on this? |
| The story takes place in New Manhattan, a metropolis that was rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years earlier. presses ''Horrible news!'' |
Grid3R said: The story takes place in New Manhattan, a metropolis that was rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years earlier. presses ''Horrible news!'' Oh god. That is bad. |
| I'm back. |
| It's the director's debut as well. He's only done short films before. Great... :\ |
| 'New Manhattan' misses the entire point of Akira so badly they might as well have the movie be about two clowns going on a cross country trip to visit a dying cancer kid, starring Adam Sandler. Akira is about Japan, more specifically its relationship to modernity since the Meiji era, there are motifs and symbolism all over the place. The anime is entirely about Japan, with the friendship plot as a sideline for viewer empathy. Having a movie adaptation be about anything else, set anywhere else, then you may as well not fucking adapt it, and sure as hell not call it AKIRA. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
Cihan said: 'New Manhattan' misses the entire point of Akira so badly they might as well have the movie be about two clowns going on a cross country trip to visit a dying cancer kid, starring Adam Sandler. Akira is about Japan, more specifically its relationship to modernity since the Meiji era, there are motifs and symbolism all over the place. The anime is entirely about Japan, with the friendship plot as a sideline for viewer empathy. Having a movie adaptation be about anything else, set anywhere else, then you may as well not fucking adapt it, and sure as hell not call it AKIRA. It failed before it started. Already it's a shitty adaptation, the only hope left is the fact that bad adaptations can still make good films, as long as they are not judged as adaptations, of course. But for some odd reason, with writer Gary Whitta doing the script, and the fact that they didn't even try to get the basic meaning of the story right, i really doubt that it will be good. If they are really ambitious, i suspect they could try to make Akira a commentary film on America and not Japan (would still fail as an adaptation, of course), but that would take too much talent and creativity, and the end result would be nothing like the original, which would piss off fans. |
Clobclark said: How much sense would it make though if it was set in Japan and everyone was speaking English? Like that would matter? How much sense does Monster make when everyone is speaking Japanese in Germany? |
Clobclark said: How much sense would it make though if it was set in Japan and everyone was speaking English? The fact that they are splitting it up into 2 movies means someone must have pulled out some amazing script. No one purposely makes a movie that doesn't gross any money. How much it grosses has nothing to do with how good the film is. Most films that do well in the box office are bad. |
Clobclark said: M_A said: Most films that do well in the box office are bad. That's a pretty ignorant statement. Just because a lot of people liked a movie and you didn't doesn't mean it's bad. I understand that some movies make money but no one really enjoyed it. I would not put that into a "most" category. I had stuff like Meet The Spartans and Date Movie in mind. I do believe they premiered number 1. Besides, it's just my opinion, i'm sorry if i made it seem like i'm stating fact. But bad movies can make lots of money, that i'd say is fact. |
Clobclark said: naikou said: How much sense does Monster make when everyone is speaking Japanese in Germany? Absolutely none. You were completely lost that they weren't speaking German, huh? |
Clobclark said: naikou said: You were completely lost that they weren't speaking German, huh? I haven't seen Monster yet, I always here good things though. It's going to take away from the realism no matter what. True, but in the grand scheme of things, that's not very important. It's definitely not worth sacrificing Akira's connection with Japan (the heart of the movie, as Cihan pointed out) for a bit of realism. My (and most people's) suspension of disbelief stretches far enough to cover people speaking the wrong languages in various countries. |
Clobclark said: Most people going into this movie will have never heard of Akira, They probably decided that if they based the movie in America it would draw a larger audience. If the heart of Akira was that it was based in Japan then I missed the point of Akira. I loved the rise and fall of the cocky Tetsuo. I loved the way, despite all that has happened, Kaneda goes back to save his friend knowing he might die in the process. I loved the mental breakdown of Tetsuo finding his powers. I loved the exciting bike chase scenes at lightning fast speeds. All of these things can be done in America and I would be more than happy. Then just copy that story format. Dont fucking call your movie Akira. That my buddy, is the point here. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| And that is why you are Tom Rothman. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| I hate remakes in general. Are they really necessary, especially when the source material was great in the first place? They always come off as an attempt to improve marquee value by using a memorable title while not actually being true to the source. The sci-fi genre is especially bad at this. The recent The Day the Earth Stood Still made me sad. |
Clobclark said: You all are veryyyyy pessimistic. I think you're verrrrry optimistic, and the rest of us are just realists. |
| Uh, they havent even written the screenplay, let alone cast anyone. It'll probably piss off anime fans summer 2011. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| 3 year necro, but hey, we might not ever get a live action, but Chronicle was pretty damn good. |
| It's baaaack..... http://comicsalliance.com/akira-live-action-movie-back-on-warner-bros-jaume-collet-serra/ |
 There are two types of anime - almost as good as Elfen Lied, and not as good as Elfen Lied. |
| Did anyone see this The director is dissing the original work. What do people think about this? |
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affirming_flame said: While it's been a while, so my younger self's opinion my be a steaming turd, I did feel that the plot and characters of the film were pretty mediocre, if not completely forgettable.Did anyone see this The director is dissing the original work. What do people think about this? It does sound like the director has never heard/touched the manga (which I hear, was a great thing, and far more balancedl), and that'd be amazingly terrible of him. |
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