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byrnedhead
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Who is Patrick Macias and why, although I'd love to believe this marvelous stuff he's talking about, should I believe anything he says?
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Tenchi
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Exactly, it's another one of those "some guy somewhere said something vague about being interested in looking into the prospect of perhaps trying to ascertain the viability of the idea of making a live-action film" kind of non-announcements.
We've been down this road many times before over the past half-decade or so, with none of the proposed live-action films/TV shows yet making it to even any significant stage of preproduction, and this one doesn't even have a studio yet, so take it with a huge grain of salt. |
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Wyvern
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Yeah, this kind of story has only slightly more credence than if I ran into Quintin Tarentino on the street and told him he should direct a live action Cowboy Bebop movie, and then the next day the headlines read "TARENTINO IN TALKS TO HELM BEBOP PIC." Technically, it'd be true, but... |
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GATSU
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Um, Patrick is the writer of the Tokyoscope column in Animerica
and the co-author of Cruising the Anime City. He's also a professional journalist and columnist who gets to meet many of the big names in Japan. He's not just a fanboy who makes this stuff up on a DBZ website. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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It's not that I don't believe that Patrick Macias is accurately relaying the information he heard, it's just that the information is vague and third-hand, and, even if the information about "Hollywood" showing "interest" is accurate, studios "option" the rights to far more properties than ever get produced into films (we just hear about the anime/manga ones on anime news sites), and, in this case, no one's even gotten to even the "option" stage.
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AzuNinja
Posts: 16 Location: Southside of the Westside! FO SHO! |
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Me and Sakura from the Animerica-Mag message boards both know him, and Sakura went to High School with him. He was, for a time, the head editor of Animerica Magazine, and has written two books on Tokyo and Anime.
He IS probably one of the most reputable sources for info in the Anime World. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I didn't say I didn't think he was a reputable source, I just think we shouldn't make too much out of a single name-dropping line in a blog entry. Studio people, even anime studio people, always "talk big". We'll have to wait and see if the interest will pan out.
EDIT: By the way, just to clarify, by "talking big", I mean the Studio Gonzo guy, not the writer who was merely relaying what he heard. |
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Andre Linoge
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Even so, I still wouldn't be surprised if this happened given the number of fantasy and war epics that have been released recently. Since the success of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy we've seen a King Arthur film, Troy, an upcoming multifilm adaptation of the Chronicles of Narnia, and not one but two movies about Alexander the Great. That alone should at least provide some incentive.
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Tenchi
Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Maybe there'd be incentive if several of those hadn't bombed.
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Andre Linoge
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Even then, the fact that all those films came out around the same time one after the other only goes to show that studios are trying to capture the success of the Peter Jackson trilogy as well as the Harry Potter collection. It only goes to show that at least studios believe that the market has developed to a point where people are enjoying these kinds of things.
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Erufu
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Hmm... well it's a big jump to go from well known books and historical figures to an anime not really known outside of anime and tech geek circles.
I would love to see more Last Exile, but I think anything more would also ruin it. I think they would have to dump more money into it than they would dump into a not so sure title, so, hopefully, this will just go out as a rumor. |
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Wyvern
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Don't forget Alexander! A historical war epic that also happens to be the biggest box office flop in years...
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Tempest
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Normally I would have mentionned who he was, but since there was an article about him on Thursday, I didn't think it was necessarry to repeat myself. -t |
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Twage
Posts: 356 Location: North Bergen, NJ |
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My dad went to high school with Joel Silver. A bunch of them invented ultimate frisbee together.
I'm not making this up. 
Third row on the left. |
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T0FFe3m@n
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Sounds cool to me. I hope something will be arranged in the near future.
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