Japanese Government To Sell Film Rights of Anime to Hollywood

You er...have watched a movie in the last thirty years, right?

are you saying that selling goods to other countries is a way to conquer them? i don't think so. i don't think that's the reason of japan for selling film rights either. and that's absolutely not the purpose of making deals as well. it's just business, exporting goods from one country to another. if you're saying that's a way to conquer other countries then america had already conquered the whole world.

More exposure to overseas audience...hm.

But I can't see Hollywood doing a good job. Somehow...

Is it me or is it just ridiculous that Cameron is planning all these movies out so far ahead of time, 2013 is one thing, but 2016, come the fuck on man.

great comment :)

Might not be as bad as most people here fear, since there's a Japanese company working together with Hollywood instead of just Americans butchering things on their own.

japan wanna conquer the America in the wrong way lol

Hollywood and Anime. Yeah It will be most probably disaster:
English dubbing.
Nothing that is thought immoral will pass. (No chanse for incest, gore, or even sex-related jokes).
Putting whole series into movie or making spin-offs not related to main story.

It wil be like movie adaptation of GANTZ.

just don't let uwe boll gets his hands on ANY OF THEM!

we're getting more dragon BALLS evolution and GAYking then?

aww man, don't know what to say...

I want a Micheal Bay directed Gundam, we already know a live action adaption of anime will be bad, but at least Bay would make the Gundams look good.

I understand and agree with MadDogV2

@Crochax
While I have no doubt there are indeed several people with their heads up their asses wherein a shrine to GRORIOUS NIPPON lies, I'm not one of them. I acknowledge your post wasn't necessarily directed at me, but I felt like explaining myself if only for my own peace of mind. I'm simply a purist. I'd like American things to stay American and foreign things to stay foreign is that so much to ask? If people can't appreciate something within the context of its own culture and instead need it to be tarted up to suit their sensibilities, they're the ones with a problem, not me.
I don't hate western things, what I hate is the perversion of one thing into something its not and then having the audacity to give it the same name. If they want to borrow the premise and central themes that's fine, but don't put a hamburger in front of me and then try to convince me its sushi.
In making The Magnificent Seven they at least changed the name, and really, that's the smarter and more respectful thing to do. Either leave the work's cultural identity totally untouched, or do a complete reinterpretation that clearly distinguishes itself from the original work and is obviously more of a tribute than an actual adaptation. Don't land somewhere in the middle because then it just seems like a shallow imitation or "replacement" born of greed and made under a cynical assumption that Americans are incapable of relating to any culture other than their own. I'll put it this way: don't simply take an anime, give it an American flag to hold in one hand and a bible in the other, beat it with a stick if it resists, and then call it a day because really that's just plain disrespectful to the original work and the Japanese in general.

tl;dr I don't oppose anime movies because I'm a weeaboo who hates the west, its because I'm a cynical douche.

God help us all.

Dragonball Evolution 2... 3... 4... coming out straight to DVD

Also, Spielberg no for GITS.... James Cameron would better fit that roll.

He never said it was bad and I didn't interpret it as such. I think I just wanted to comment about liking american animation as well.

Where did he say Avatar was bad?
I think he was using them as examples of positive western series.

Though I disagree about the Ghost in the Shell thing.
I will watch that even if its the worst thing ever.

This wouldn't be too bad of an idea if they waited ten years or so. The problem is that the current generation of adults has this stupid belief of animation=kiddy show. Unless its like, Family Guy or something like that. They are just so stuck on that idea that it would be hard to sell. However, I think if they waited for the current generation of teens to become older, they'd have a more open audience to aim at. At my school at least, there is a strong anime influence and we are all open to watching animation, Disney or Anime.

I also think that this idea could only work with specific anime. Death Note has great potential, but I could see them ruining something like Ouran or Fruits Basket, its just not set up for the adaptation. Something with action is probably best, those are much more eye catching than romantic comedies. A really investing plot with some violence is pretty much the only way I can see it working out. I'd love to see a Sailor Moon film, but I'd probably find a way to hate it.

Also, if you really think someone could have made a succesfull Dragonball movie, that's just silly. Let's be honest, the dragonball series is too fantastical to find any success as a live action film, you could have the best directors/writers/actors out there and the film would fail, because THE SOURCE material simply doesn't work.

Death Note, however, will probably make for a great film adaptation, but we'll just have to wait and see....

YES.

Cautiously interested.

Very very, cautiously interested...

Not expecting much though.