Forum - View topicNEWS: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Manga's Live-Action Rights Acquired by Film World Studios
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penguintruth
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A live action Captain Harlock, huh? I hope it's better than that Space Battleship Yamato movie (which was okay, but nothing special). Maybe having more than one good set would help.
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GATSU
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Not a lawyer, but I'm not sure how you can adapt one without having the rights to the other. It's like when Harmony Gold thinks it can do a live-action Robotech without having the Asian rights to Macross, or when Uni tried to get the live-action Pluto rights separately from Astro Boy.
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Spike Terra
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So will this capture the true Leiji by casting like 12 people to play a cast of 60?
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Spawn29
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Is it going to be American or Japanese live action?
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catbot158
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I think it's American? The studio is, anyway. I have no idea who these guys are. Are they new? Now I'm wondering if this is gonna be one of those low-budget adaptations they made back in the day. If so, at least we'll be able to riff on it! |
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FenixFiesta
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This sounds like some sort of Chinese/Hong Kong production, "Film World Studios" that is something a non (western) English speaker would come up with as it sounds like a disingenuous name for a company to a native speaker.
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Mr. sickVisionz
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You could actually make this pretty cool (like Guardians of the Galaxy but reduce the humor down to Winter Soldier levels) but I doubt it will turn out good.
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Kon'Doriano
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This better not suck, if it's anywhere near as good as Ghost in the Shell visually but not as bad as its script then I'm sold. I really want these anime live-action films to be great and successful and hopefully we'll get to see that in the future with "Alita: Battle Angel," "Lone Wolf & Cub," "Akira," the Korean "Jin-Roh" film, and now this movie. Please don't suck.
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Spawn29
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If it is a American film, I wonder if people will be upset over the casting or not? I feel like Harlock could be play by anyone.
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Black Turtle
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Technically, Harlock ancestor are german and english, if I remember well. It would be logical for him to be portrayed by a caucasian. Anyway, I saw that a few days ago, I thought it was a fake. The teaser are so cheap, a kid could have done it. The police is pixelated. |
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lazydude500
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Pros and cons to studios you probably haven't heard of licensing the film rights.
Pros: Maybe TPTB actually care about good casting and a faithful adaptation Cons: Struggle to get investors = lower budget --> movie not as great as it could be |
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