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NEWS: Book of Eli's Albert Hughes: Warner Wants PG-13 Akira

Charred Knight wrote:

samuelp wrote: Charred Knight wrote: You don't need graituitous violence or nudity to tell a mature story. First off, it wouldn't be gratuitous if it was needed, by definition. So your statement is a tautology. Secondly, one could equally say that you don't need cool motorcycles to tell a proper post apocalyptic story. But an Akira without those wouldn't be Akira, right? You know when I asked if I was the only person who watched Akira for something other than blood and tits I didn't want a yes for the answer. If you think like that than Apocalypse Zero sells for less than 14 dollars at Amazon Marketplace. Naked people isn't a theme, people exploding isn't a theme, if your so shallow than clearly Katsuhiro Otomo failed. Also the importance of the mortorcycle is to show the rebellion of youth.

So hey, here's a though: Maybe...just for starters, you could stop being obnoxious. There's not really any need to call people names just because they don't agree with you.

Anyway, obviously there's so much more to Akira than just R rated material. But there's also a lot of R rated material and I really doubt a fair bit of that 'so much more' would be workable without it being very violent.

Besides, even though the R rated stuff isn't the main appeal of Akira, it's still an integral part. It's like...if they decided the Cowboy Bebop movie wasn't going to be set the future and in space. Sure there's a whole lot more to Bebop. Sure you could potentially still make a Cowboy Bebop movie that largely maintained the themes and ideas of the series even if it wasn't in space. But...it wouldn't really be Cowboy Bebop. It would be something else.

I'm still embarrassed by the "boob scene" because it's not in the manga and that one particular act doesn't really contribute anything to the film in my opinion...Then again maybe I'm too used to the American view of "No, sex should be more censored than violence! Naked body bad!" But if that were taken out I wouldn't be too upset. I would be upset if Tetsuo killed the people and they just kinda...fell or something.

claiming that an urban movie by the Hughes Brothers (the Directors of Menace II Society) is going to be bad without it even going into production is silly.

No one is saying that Akira shouldn't be Cyberpunk, or not set in the post apocalypse.

Yes, making it PG 13 would be harder than making it R, but it certainly wouldn't kill the movie. If the movie is bad than it's going to be for more reasons than not enough blood.

I'm tired of people crying over PG-13. PG-13 is a rating that studios have been pushing for years. These days, anything that doesn't involve explicit sex or detailed gore is PG-13 or under.

The Dark Knight is one of the edgiest PG-13 movies out there, and guess who it's from? Yeah.

I'm still embarrassed by the "boob scene" because it's not in the manga and that one particular act doesn't really contribute anything to the film in my opinion...

PG-13 =/= kids movie.

The Ring and Dark Knight shoot that theory in the foot immediately. You can make a film that's incredibly intense without throwing buckets of blood on the screen.

the development team with producer Andrew Lazar (Jonah Hex, Space Cowboys, Get Smart)

The trick for me is to simplify everything for the audience because you can't come in with that complexity.

Ack. There is nothing in the comments made here that sounds right. Then again I might be jaded from Warners other failures in adaptation from Batman and Robin to Superman Returns to Watchmen to Jonah Hex just last week. On top of that you see Fox mangle stuff like Dragon Ball or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I've seen this crap before and it looks like it's happening again. Instead of adapting a movie based on the source material, they want to adapt it into some generic movie the studios want to tailor make for what they think audiences want.

You know, I liked Watchmen, I don't see what was so wrong with it.

Course, not something to watch with parents or church goers, but still.

fanboy baaarrgrggh

Am I the only person who didn't watch Akira for the Blood and tits?

Never mind this is Warners. They couldn't even get Superman right. Superman! How do you screw up Superman?!

Then again I might be jaded from Warners other failures in adaptation from Batman and Robin to Superman Returns to Watchmen to Jonah Hex just last week.

TokyoGetter wrote:

For some reason, I was really holding out hope for this one... now I'm almost assured that it will blow. I'd much rather they take the same money and pump out four of the anime a la Eva. And sweet buttery CRAP let's keep Morgan Freeman out of this. R Lee Ermy or somebody as "the general" is doable, but the penguin narrator guy can stay at home. But whadda I know? I called BS on that second Batman film for the same reasons.

Morgan Freeman is awesome.