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NEWS: Saint Seiya Manga Gets Live-Action Hollywood Film

They even have my support if they decide to change the knight's hair colour from green, violet and blue to brown. After all, it seems to me that their hair colour's only reason to be is not due to fashion or to any aesthetic movement in most cases, but to distinguish the characters in the drawings, cause they looked a lot a like. So the pink, violet, blue and green hair colours are not necessary in the movies. The film would look more realistic. But the long hair and haircuts are rather cool. I would keep them.

Yet, if they want to keep the colours, I hope they dont' use garish ones, and to use them integrated as an artistic element in the photography and atmosphere of the film.

The Blueray remastered anime is too garish for my taste, though very clean. I have both versions and the original wouldn't hurt my eyes. I could get into the story with no distraction.

I can't see this working in the US. I feel like something like Hellsing or Gunsmith Cats would work better for the US. Get the director of John Wick to make a Gunsmith Cats movie and it would be gold! Saint Seiya would be view as too goofy for the US audience.

Spawn29 wrote:

I can't see this working in the US. I feel like something like Hellsing or Gunsmith Cats would work better for the US. Get the director of John Wick to make a Gunsmith Cats movie and it would be gold! Saint Seiya would be view as too goofy for the US audience.

But Toei doesn't own those. Toei is producing this movie to get a Hollywood movie of one of their biggest international successes out there. No doubt they're producing so another Dragonball Evolution doesn't happen.

Midaro wrote:

They even have my support if they decide to change the knight's hair colour from green, violet and blue to brown. After all, it seems to me that their hair colour's only reason to be is not due to fashion or to any aesthetic movement in most cases, but to distinguish the characters in the drawings, cause they looked a lot a like. So the pink, violet, blue and green hair colours are not necessary in the movies. The film would look more realistic. But the long hair and haircuts are rather cool. I would keep them. Yet, if they want to keep the colours, I hope they dont' use garish ones, and to use them integrated as an artistic element in the photography and atmosphere of the film. The Blueray remastered anime is too garish for my taste, though very clean. I have both versions and the original wouldn't hurt my eyes. I could get into the story with no distraction.

That wouldn't be a problem. In the manga, they had normal hair colors for the most part. Black, Brown, and Blonde were the hair colors of our main five, and Athena had brown hair as well.

I mean, look at the Gold Saints, they mostly had normal hair colors as well.



Admittedly, a French man with natural Red Hair is a bit rare, but still.

I'd definitely love to see them keep the manga colors as well. Ikki's Cloth was pure orange in the manga, and it looked great.



The Cloths in the manga also had more texture to them. Details seemed to be part of the metal, whereas the anime often made it look like they were painted on flat material. Loss some depth there.