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yusaku
Joined: 17 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:53 am |
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New Line Cinema has acquired feature film rights to "Monster," a best-selling Japanese manga comic book series from author Naoki Urasawa.
Is that true? |
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Strategos
Joined: 25 Sep 2004
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:46 am |
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| This definantly is interesting news. While I personally have not been reading or viewing Monster, I have heard that it is an exceptional series. Lets see how New Line fucks it up. |
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Nionel
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:08 am |
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| We'll have to wait and see if it even gets off the ground first, remeber just because they have the licence to the property doesn't mean anything, I mean we still haven't seen anything on any of the other anime series/movies that have been licenced by Hollywood companies in the past couple of years |
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Isaaru
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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Location: the oppressed colonies in outer space
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:12 am |
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Monster is awesome.
I don't want to see Hollywood try and cram just the skeleton of the story and rolll into some flashy movie. |
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tropical_kit
Joined: 15 Sep 2004
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Location: Repatriated to Freedonia, and it's pith helmet season again.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:19 pm |
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Oh, no.
Urasawa's work is incredible, and the likelihood of a bunch of suits screwing things up is very, very high.
Here's hoping NLC is distracted by something quickly moving and colorful so nothing comes of this. (And I hope Urasawa-sensei got some real money out of this, not just the typical token payment that contract workers get.) |
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DriftRoot
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
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Location: The land o' the green mountains
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:41 pm |
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If they do make it into a film, then John Cusack MUST play the good doctor!!
Wait, that's assuming they don't ditch the fact that he is supposed to be, at the very least, Asian. Hrm. |
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SakechanBD
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Joined: 05 Jan 2002
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:04 pm |
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| What I find most amusing is that New Line Cinema already had a movie named Monster (the one with Charlize Theron). They'll probably have to make a name change. |
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DeaD_PooL
Joined: 11 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:49 pm |
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| any word on when america is bringing this title here? i heard something about bandai being interested in it a while back |
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Animefan16
Joined: 24 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:53 pm |
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| Viz has the manga but the anime is not licensed. |
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beansy99
Joined: 11 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:00 pm |
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| Who said Viz had Monster? Last I checked they had Urasawa's other title 20th Century Boys, not Monster. |
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ava_star
Joined: 02 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:04 pm |
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I think Monster has the potential to be an excellent film, provided they don't try to turn it into something it's not -- namely, an action blockbuster or cheap horror flick.
Monster is a beautifully rendered psychological thriller, which may or may not sell to modern American audiences. A lot of the thematic elements in the Monster anime are reminiscent of (if not directly stolen from) Hitchcock's golden-era suspense films, such as Rebecca and The Man Who Knew Too Much. (One of my favorite examples is around episode 18 or 20 somewhere, when Nina is talking to the captive Turkish woman through the drain in her room. With only sound and one still frame, an ordinary household sink is transformed into an object of horror. Ah, a glorious Hitchcock directing technique!) It *could* be done well, depending on who is writing and directing, and how closely they adhere to the characters and settings of the manga/anime.
That is, of course, assuming that the project ever gets off the ground, and that the finished product bears any resemblence to the original story... |
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Jadress
Joined: 08 Oct 2003
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Location: Seattle. It purdy and nerdy!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:10 pm |
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| DriftRoot wrote: | If they do make it into a film, then John Cusack MUST play the good doctor!!
Wait, that's assuming they don't ditch the fact that he is supposed to be, at the very least, Asian. Hrm. |
Hah! Asian starring roles in a non martial arts movie? I don't hold out much hope for that. Though honestly, I haven't read/seen Monster, so I don't know how Japanese the story is. |
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Kagemusha
Joined: 20 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:14 pm |
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Interesting news that people are undoubtably going to overeact to (I'm sure fanboys are already making it out to be an atrocity). I think if a strong script and director become attached to the project, it has the potential to be an exellent film. It already has a great concept, so lets hope it doesn't get turned into a typical modern thriller.
| Quote: | | What I find most amusing is that New Line Cinema already had a movie named Monster (the one with Charlize Theron). They'll probably have to make a name change. |
That's Newmarket films, not New Line, that theatrically distributed Monster. With Theron's Monster recieving a good deal of press over the last 2 years (regreatably, most of it was due to the fact that she was ugly rather than her amazing preformance), perhapse a name change will be considered for Urasawa's Monster.[/i] |
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IvoryBirch
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:20 pm |
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I think some people are being a little to quick to denounce New Line as a company full of money-grubbing men in suits who only have interest in "blockbuster" type movies. While it's true they've produced quite a few subpar films, there have also been a number of exceptional ones. Also, I gather that a lot of adapted stories they've produced have remained pretty faithful to the source material (e.g., The Lord of the Rings).
Granted, the caliber of a film really depends on the screenwriter(s) and director, so perhaps I'm being to quick to defend New Line.  |
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hikaru004
Joined: 15 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:22 pm |
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How does this affect the anime becoming R1?
Is this situation similar to what happened to Battle Angel? |
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