Forum - View topicNEWS: Universal, Illumination Get Film Rights for Urasawa's Pluto Manga
|
Goto page Previous 1, 2 Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
KrillXIII
Posts: 3 |
|
|||
I don't mind. After all, don't the original creators/companies still get a nice fat bundle of dough?
What about A History of Violence? I never read the original comic, but I quite enjoyed the film. David Cronenberg was responsible, and also wrote the screenplay for the Monster adaptation which appears to have died. On the main subject, I'm a little hesitant. Illumination has only done Despicable Me, and the following are its upcoming projects: Hop Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Flanimals Where's Waldo? The Addams Family Despicable Me 2 Curious George Untitled Cryptozoology Project None of these speak to anything resembling the kind of aesthetic a Pluto adaptation needs, i.e. Blade Runner, predominantly live-action etc... |
||||
|
||||
NimbusRain
 Posts: 148 |
|
|||
|
At first I was really excited to hear this. The 20th Century Boys movies were well-written, very nicely casted representations of the manga. I'd love to see another Urasawa classic get the same treatment.
Then I realized... this is being done by a Hollywood studio. The same kind of people who brought us the wonderful movie adaptations of Speed Racer and Dragonball Evolution... I have a feeling this movie is going to be based very loosely on the original source material. 
|
||||
|
||||
|
GATSU
Posts: 15335 |
|
|||
|
kRILL: The AHOV movie was full of itself. The book's better. Also, Cronenberg had nothing to do with the screenplay. He didn't even know it was based on a comic until the last minute.
|
||||
|
||||
|
KrillXIII
Posts: 3 |
|
|||
The directing was still excellent, which Cronenberg was responsible for and I'd think it would be a relief if you thought the movie was "full of itself" and it turned out the guy who wrote the Monster screenplay did not write the screenplay for A History of Violence. |
||||
|
||||
|
BeanBandit
Posts: 303 Location: Canada |
|
|||
|
It's too bad they're not making full anime TV shows out of Urasawa's stuff instead. I would have loved to have seen Pluto and 20th Century Boys done up as a full anime TV series instead like what they did with Monster. Just my 2 cents, but here's hoping they do it justice, the Pluto manga is fantastic.
|
||||
|
||||
|
GATSU
Posts: 15335 |
|
|||
|
Krill: Well, Monster was already preachy, so maybe the AHOV scribe would tone that aspect of the source material down.
|
||||
|
||||
Henry Jones
 Posts: 97 Location: Nebraska |
|
|||
|
Call my a cynic, but I highly doubt a mature and intelligent look at Astro Boy gets off the ground in the U.S. without someone on the level of Spielberg (Who already did A.I.) being involved or being changed to the point of it not being recognizable (I'm 99.9% sure the robot designs would be changed drastically. Not that I have a problem with that). I can just imagine a version where the only thing they'd keep is the Hannibal Lector-esque robot.
|
||||
|
||||
The Xenos
 Posts: 1519 Location: Boston |
|
|||
Yeah, all hopes of this being good went out the window with this:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/universal-hopes-to-replicate-massive-success-of-as,46608/ Are they out of their mind. Pluto is an adult twist on the kids manga Astro Boy. It is NOT a kids manga. It's like Universal taking Crime and Punishment or Steven King's The Green Mile and saying they want to make it into a CG / live action kids film. It doesn't work that way. Urasawa's a very mature writer for adult readers. While his work isn't really graphic in nature, his themes and tone are. Honestly, this is the most mismatched adaptation I have heard in some time. What's next, some idiot suit is going to want to make a kids cartoon out of Slaughterhouse Five?! |
||||
|
||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group