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0stiniatioze
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Every time I see this I assume it's a prank.
I'm not sure if I want it to succeed, I'm worried it will lead to more adaptations, on the other hand, it could go towards making anime more mainstream in the west. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Well, I'm not worried. I look forward to it leading to more adaptations. |
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EricJ2
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No, it's What Hollywood Thinks Anime Is, whenever they want to sell it to the hip young people with their cellphones-- Namely, whatever they hear fans talking about the most, especially if it airs on Cartoon Network. Betting pool's open for when we get the US Naruto and Sword Art Online series.... |
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SWAnimefan
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Given how One Piece has a tough time with a following on Adult Swim, makes me wonder if this project is mainly for the East? Then you factor in the length of the One Piece story, minus the filler, the commitment has to be as long as the anime, at least a decade. Plus the CGI surely has to be at the Game of Thrones level.
In other words, this is an Ambitious project. |
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MarshalBanana
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I wonder if they will revamp Luffys Devil Fruit power, because I can not see that looking anything but beyond silly. Unless they have it like it is later on, with the steam and the attacks so fast it looks more like a steam piston hit someone rather than a stretched out arm.
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KH91
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Where else was it going to take place?
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CycloneJoker
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I keep forgetting about this. It's gonna suck so hard. Can't wait.
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CatSword
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Oh gee. This is...this is actually gonna happen, isn’t it?
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Break Xerxes
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I have mixed feelings about this. Most live adaptations of anime (as well as cartoons and games) tend to be awful, but Oda himself did say that it won't betray the fans. I guess we just have to wait and see.
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Otaku-sempai
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Any live-action adaptation of One Piece seems like a bad idea to me. The manga just seems too ill-suited to that form.
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Beatdigga
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This is still real?
Why? Common sense should prevail. |
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Animechic420
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Now I think we should a little open about this movie. It won't be exactly like the manga, but enough so we know it's a One Piece movie.
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leafy sea dragon
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I'm also guessing that they have Toei to deal with, which is a big enough company that they CAN pull their weight around with North American TV studios. Toei was previously burned by 4Kids, so I'd bet the people at Toei in charge of licensing out adaptations of One Piece have become much more exacting and strict in their contracts.
Hey, we've gotten Mr. Fantastic in at least three movies now, and no one complains that it looks too silly, even though Reed's powers, in how he can remain stretched out for long periods of time, would look sillier than Luffy's. If I recall correctly though, Eiichiro Oda said, in one of the earlier question-and-answer columns in the manga volume releases, that he chose for Luffy to have stretchy powers so it would look silly and whimsical no matter how serious the situation would get. In other words, Oda views One Piece as a comedy, just one with a lot of dramatic moments.
At a high school, perhaps?
I kind of enjoyed the live action film of The Flintstones, but I was 10 years old at that time. I heard the live acton adaptation of Popeye was very nice too, though it was a box office bomb because it looked too weird for people in 1980 (the extras were all acrobats and contortionists so they could move like people in those old Fleisher Brothers shorts, and it was a bit too faithful to the comics, which contained character traits not present in the cartoon, that people complained they acted out of character). When I was an assistant to a producer, he told me that the biggest reason these adaptations tend to flop in live action is because they're picking the wrong franchises. He said that these adaptations can be good, if you 1) pick one that's suited well to be adapted, and 2) pick one that is not too popular, because they always get crushed by people expecting more than the production would be capable of. That being said, he's also well aware that doing this will not get you as much money and would have a hard time getting greenlit, which is why you almost never see adaptations of obscure stories unless the studio markets it like it was their own (such as Shrek, which was adapted from a children's book by William Steig, or Kingsmen, which was adapted from a comic book by...Mark Millar, I believe). |
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theNightster
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first Death note now One Piece, leave anime alone Hollywood
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Otaku-sempai
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It's a little too late for such complaints considering how many manga and anime have already been adapted by Hollywood. Next up is Battle Angel Alita. Naruto seems to be next and Akira might still happen. |
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