Forum - View topicNEWS: Thor: Ragnarok's Taika Waititi in Talks to Direct Live-Action Akira
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harminia
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*kaneda voice* i didn't choose the skuxx life the skuxx life chose me
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Gemnist
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This could be really good or really bad. Taika Waititi is a great director whose has handled dark material, but he's far better known for comedy than for drama.
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PurpleWarrior13
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Of course he is. What successful, working director HASN'T been approached for this project? It's only a matter of time before they try Patty Jenkins.
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Codeanime93
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So Neo-New York is the setting or what now? Please stop doing this to Akira and let it die.
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MagusGuardian
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isn't this the eighth or ninth director change? Plus a setting change? well this is getting down right monotonous
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MadHi
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Besides the number 1 obvious reason why they want to make this (money), what other reason justifies this project being greenlit?
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Zin5ki
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Given our expectations here, I doubt I'm the only one who'd gladly accept endless setbacks rather than substantive progress... |
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doomydoomdoom
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I can't believe they're still trying to get this trash off the ground. Have they not learned a single damn lesson from Ghost in the Shell, Dragonball: Evolution, Speed Racer, Fist of the North Star, Guyver, and other trash anime and manga live-action movies? Ghost in the Shell was a big bomb for Paramount and was a PR nightmare thanks to casting Scarlett Johansson as Motoko, and it's come out in a year where Paramount desperately needs a hit because all their releases keep bombing.
Just kill it already. I'm so sick of these reboots, remakes and weak adaptations, most of all for manga. Star Wars V was a cash grab by Disney. The new It movie was undoubtedly the most hyped movie of the year and broke records and all of that and the director kept going on about how much he loved the book and he reread it in four hours before filming started, and how true it was going to be to the book, but it was still pretty terrible compared to the book, relied on CGI, underwent a decade-change, etc. These things aren't working. How many director changes has that been for Akira now? I mean, just let it die already. Lock it up in Development Hell and throw away the key. Our generation needs to form a New Hollywood outside the Hollywood studio system and get actual original projects made. There are kids out there with great ideas that have never been tried before but they may or may not ever have the chance to get them made because of the garbage filmmaking industry in the U.S. |
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r0verandom
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Trying to make good adaptation, since that still doesn't exist. Animated movie is very poor in terms of characters and story, only thing it has going for it are visuals. |
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BadNewsBlues
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I'm confused you say these things aren't working while citing the It adaptation which has thus far been a success at the box office. Unlike the other movies you mentioned.
I don't think that's why original film ideas are few and far between a good part of the reason is that it's far more likely that a film based on a existing idea to be successful than an original idea. A movie with an original premise is likely to get you awards and rave reviews less likely to put butts in theater seats. Last edited by BadNewsBlues on Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:22 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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I'd love to see this. This is close as it comes to a remake. I enjoyed ghost in the shell live action, so I'd like to see how this could turn out.
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GATSU
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doomy: Actually, Ghost in the Shell made really good money on home video.
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residentgrigo
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople is beyond legit but the man isn´t a "serious" director. Doesn´t mean that he can´t do a good Akira film but still a weird choice.
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