Warner Bros. Acquires Rights to 'Shingeki no Kyojin' Hollywood Live-Action Film
The Hollywood film adaptation will be helmed by Argentine filmmaker Andy Muschietti, who directed last year's supernatural horror film It, based on Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. British film studio Heyday Films founder David Heyman (Harry Potter), Japanese American actor Masi Oka (Death Note), and Andy's sister Barbara Muschietti (Mama) are credited as producers for the film.
Negotiations for the manga's adaptation by a Hollywood production company were first revealed by the entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood in January 2017. At the time, Kodansha released a statement indicating that various film negotiations were underway and that the Deadline Hollywood report was erroneous. On Tuesday morning, Kodansha finally provided a press release to Japanese media confirming the film's production.
Toho Pictures previously produced two live-action adaptations of Shingeki no Kyojin in 2015. Those films (pictured) were directed by Gainax veteran Shinji Higuchi and starred Haruma Miura as protagonist Eren Yeager. Both films were also released internationally. In Japan, the films earned a cumulative 4.93 billion yen in box office revenues, becoming the year's seventh and 24th highest-grossing domestic films.
No release date has been set for Muschietti's Shingeki no Kyojin adaptation. He is currently directing a sequel of It scheduled to be released in September 2019.
Source: Variety, PR Times
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Aot has a 19th century european inspired setting, I don't see why it couldn't be properly adapted into a Hollywood movie. And most of the characters are Caucasians, with Mikasa being the only asian. Of course they could add more diverse original characters as long they fit the setting and the story.
Caucasians? European?... Goodness, do you know the definition of "style"?
Show me an article or a mangaka's note where he says that all of the mentioned characters are Caucasians and Mikasa is "the only Asian".
Stop projecting your politicized beliefs on art. Anime does NOT play your race game.
Nov 1, 2018 11:36 AM by Ato1414
Nov 1, 2018 12:01 AM by Grey-Zone
Oct 31, 2018 11:16 PM by youseiki
Oct 30, 2018 9:11 PM by Infatuate
Oct 30, 2018 6:47 PM by jc9622
Oct 30, 2018 4:52 PM by Meira_Eve
My Hero Academia is still worse but we should all be afraid.
Oct 30, 2018 4:20 PM by Stripes
Oct 30, 2018 4:19 PM by returntothenhk
I expect this movie will make mega bucks in Japan / the asian market; apparently when they watch Hollywood movies they'd rather see exotic white people than American asians. (At least according to a documentary I saw on PBS when The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift came out.)
Caucasians? European?... Goodness, do you know the definition of "style"?
In addition to being uninformed, you seem to be confused: many Japanese anime characters do indeed "look white" because that's the result of the art style. But the noses on most Attack on Titan characters make it clear that this isn't that style. (Compare Monster, which also featured many realistically drawn europeans.) Mikasa of course has the typical small anime nose of an asian character.
Oct 30, 2018 4:00 PM by nDroae
give it a rest already live-action adaptations never work
Oct 30, 2018 3:07 PM by Playcool
Oct 30, 2018 1:54 PM by GabiBats
Oct 30, 2018 1:54 PM by Haneken2086
Oct 30, 2018 12:49 PM by Danae
"Hey, there's this anime called "Attack on Titan". Yeah, the manga has more than 100 chapters and the anime is about 70 episodes long with more to come... yeah-yeah, it's 23 hours total and the story is not finished"
"Cool... though, I don't want to watch 70 episodes. What, a Japanese movie-adaptation? Nah, I don't like Japanese. LET'S MAKE OUR OWN MOVIE"
"But we can't adapt it properly and the story, aesthetics would not work in a movie format..."
"I WANT AN AMERICAN MOVIE"
"We can't do that..."
"AND NO ASIANS"
please name an entire cast of asians that are fully recognisable in the west. in fact, name 5.
even if you can, are you seriously implying the movie would do well with a different race of people? lmao think harder son
EDIT
nvm you got destroyed already
Oct 30, 2018 11:51 AM by TomDay
Oct 30, 2018 11:51 AM by Guranto-kun
Aot has a 19th century european inspired setting, I don't see why it couldn't be properly adapted into a Hollywood movie. And most of the characters are Caucasians, with Mikasa being the only asian. Of course they could add more diverse original characters as long they fit the setting and the story.
Caucasians? European?... Goodness, do you know the definition of "style"?
Show me an article or a mangaka's note where he says that all of the mentioned characters are Caucasians and Mikasa is "the only Asian".
Stop projecting your politicized beliefs on art. Anime does NOT play your race game.
Except it does. Spoilers for the manga, but
Plus, just use your damn common sense dude. When you got a name like "Kiyomi Azumabito" in the manga, you bet your ass you think of an Asian. Or "Eren Jaeger" will probably remind you of a European. This is PURPOSELY done because the characters are based off of our real world.
Oct 30, 2018 8:24 AM by ixaa
More seriously, I wonder who they will get to play Levi and Erwin, I’m asking for a friend... For science!
Okay: Attack on Titan dream casting — go! Thoughts anyone?
Oct 30, 2018 8:10 AM by DhampirParadox
Oct 30, 2018 7:16 AM by thepath
Oct 30, 2018 7:03 AM by MrAwesome2018
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Seriously, that wasn't that hard of an analysis to think about, yet all of these live action movies end up being garbage, due to the lack of knowledge about the source material. That Ghost in the Shell movie had a lot of homages to the original movie, but didn't even know what the appeal was, and completely left out all the psychological aspects the series was known for.
Hollywood's idea of what anime is is completely off, and until that changes, mixing Hollywood and anime is a formula destined to fail. It's not even specific to anime anymore. It's like the worst of the Marvel movies, they just attempt to adapt some of these characters and make them appeal to the masses, while completely forgetting why we liked these comic book characters in the first place. There are obviously Marvel movies that have taken creative liberties with their characters, but they didn't stray THAT far, in those specific instances. Wolverine was still a cool enough anti-hero, they didn't make him into some sappy friendship-coveting superhero or anything
Nov 3, 2018 9:26 PM by OnionKnightRises