| Wait, Hollywood remake? New York? How boring. Guess I'll just have to skip out on this and pretend I never knew it existed. If someone wants to make a live-action remake of an infamous animated movie, then leave it to the Japanese. They would have done a better job. |
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| Robert Pattinson? Justin Timberlake? WTF? The whole setting americanization sucks enormously too. This is gonna be crap (and I'm not one to hate easily on such projects, for example The Bebop Movie I would giev a chance with Keanu Reaves). But wasn't like Leonardo Di Caprio supposed to play Kaneda? I would have liked that more than any of the other choices in the starting post... Steve Kloves doesn't sound too bad though, but the actors... |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| They seem dead set on ruining a classic piece of anime as well as a great manga. Hollywood, you don't have to call this movie Akira. You don't have to chuck out a well known anime icon to get people into the cinemas. Just say it was "inspired" by Akira. Then you can do whatever the hell you want with the story and we won't flame you for it. This movie is doomed to fail from the beginning. Therefore I refuse to acknowledge it's existence. |
 "I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila." |
| yay thanks hollywood =_= |
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Naruleach said: For the role of Tetsuo, prospective actors include: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy. For the role of Kaneda, actors include: Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix. ahahahahahaha. To be fair, and I know I'm going to get totally hated for this, but Robert Pattinson is a fairly good actor. Not a Twilight fan, I just like him. Also for the people complaining about Justin Timberlake's name being attatched to it-do teh words "The Social network" mean nothing to you? Granted I haven't seen it and have no idea what he was like in it but I haven't heard anything bad about his performance, haha. Not that I'm saying this is going to be good, it's obviously going to be terrible. :') |
| Hah, sucks that they're doing this remake. I don't think it'll be good at all lol but ah well |
| It's Akira now... eventually it'll be Evangelion :S Fortunately we still have the original Animes to remember them with. Avatar film was just..... Anime was at LEAST over 9000 times better. |
| OK i can tell now for sure this is gonna FUCKING SUCK! Steve Kloves, Robert Pattinson, Justin Timberlake?????? REALLY? WTF??? FUCKING worse staff ever omfg... And if Robert gets chosen i am hell not watching this AT ALL! |
| I just...died a little on the inside. I mean Robert Pattinson? Really? Why is he even being considered for this? Can the man show emotions? I don't think he can. I mean Tetsuo is basically a raging, screaming ball of angst, rage and drugs. ...oh wait. From the sounds of that he's probably going to be a super cool rock star rebelling against the world or something. Never mind that. Rob is perfect for that. I understand adapting the movie for American audiences, and I understand needing to make certain changes. But for the love of god, if you're just going to change the underlying theme and message of the story what's the point? Besides the name, it won't even be truly related to the source material if they make the type of changes I'm picturing here. Way to sink even lower than usual Hollywood. Good job. Keep up the good work you jerks. (I do hope my negativity will be wasted and this will turn out to be an epic movie of epic proportions) (not going to happen). |
| They're not adapting the movie they're adapting the manga.Btw movie will be shot in two parts like Kill Bill so they're not trying to squeeze everything in two or three hours. |
Winter said: I just...died a little on the inside. I mean Robert Pattinson? Really? Why is he even being considered for this? Can the man show emotions? I don't think he can. I mean Tetsuo is basically a raging, screaming ball of angst, rage and drugs. ...oh wait. From the sounds of that he's probably going to be a super cool rock star rebelling against the world or something. Never mind that. Rob is perfect for that. I understand adapting the movie for American audiences, and I understand needing to make certain changes. But for the love of god, if you're just going to change the underlying theme and message of the story what's the point? Besides the name, it won't even be truly related to the source material if they make the type of changes I'm picturing here. Way to sink even lower than usual Hollywood. Good job. Keep up the good work you jerks. (I do hope my negativity will be wasted and this will turn out to be an epic movie of epic proportions) (not going to happen). Watch something of Pattinsons that isn't Twilight. It's a shame his most known work is his worst work. |
| another Dragonball Evolution movie? no, thanks! |
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| /facepalm please dont ruin an amazing classic...already enough people that think animes are shitty based from American live action garbage |
| I think this is what happens you have passionate fans who end up wanting to make a movie about one of their favorite properties and then studios come and want to mess it up because they're afraid of the market. |
| Manga Therapy - Where Psychology & Manga Meet http://www.mangatherapy.com |
| I hope it'll be better than the anime movie. |
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| This movie is going to be dumbed-down for American audiences. They'll re-write everything to appeal to the broadest market, and take out anything that average Americans are too dense to understand. So, heavy on explosions and American cultural references, skip over stuff like symbolism and teenagers struggling to find their place in society. And of course they'll have to change it to a happy ending somehow. Enough people will probably go see this cinematic turd to justify the producers' decisions. And btw nothing in the movie will be "over the heads" of non-anime fans, because they won't put that in the movie. And the Blood+ movie was "chew-your-arm-off-to-escape" stupid and bad. |
BurayanMay 15, 2011 5:18 AM
 There are two types of anime - almost as good as Elfen Lied, and not as good as Elfen Lied. |
Naruleach said: The script, which had been successfully rewritten by Steve Kloves (Harry Potter films), THANK GOD! the project is in safe hands now [/sarcasm] |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| Update on May 29th According to Deadline, director Albert Hughes has left the Hollywood movie adaptation of Akira. Their report states that the departure is due to "amicable creative differences" and that Warners Bros intends to find a new director quickly since they want to "keep the picture on a fast track". Source: Deadline |
p r o f i l e 👀 |
| http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/akira-production-shut-down-budget-warner-bros-278729 It's been over a year, so maybe we're safe now. But I still feel like we're only on Terminator 2, and the evil will rise again. We must hunt down those responsible for all the misery and angst and make sure they never go near Anime again. |
There are two types of anime - almost as good as Elfen Lied, and not as good as Elfen Lied. |
| Spoke too soon... : http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/08/04/stalled-akira-live-action-movie-comes-back-to-life/ |
There are two types of anime - almost as good as Elfen Lied, and not as good as Elfen Lied. |
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