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Gemnist
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Well, there goes my hope of doing the property justice when I got older... Hopefully not...
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Heishi
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jdnation
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Well at least the crew behind this sounds good. The new IT was fantastic!
And considering it the producers behind WB's other long running franchises... I'd say it might be looking good that they intend Attack on Titan as a potential multi-film franchise. As for people asking why Hollywood is rushing to grab anime adaptations. The answer is obvious - Breaking more into the overseas Asian Market - particularly China. Hence - Anime & Manga properties being licensed. So it's not always about the local North American market. But if they do this right I can see this doing very well. I'd prefer for them to wait until the manga is further along closer to its conclusion. If only (manga spoiler) spoiler[to help with the casting properly - which is largely white with a few asians - and avoid the urge to cast a black person until they inevitably do show up later on - a big theme of AoT does have to do with race and bloodlines and nations. But we can just cue up the outrage of the press wondering why there are no black or other minority people cast because it must obviously be racism!] |
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BadNewsBlues
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I know Akira still being in development hell has made people jaded but hey they got around to making that Death Note movie....not as a theatrical film but still.
This is the same adult swim that loved to (and probably still does) edit out nipples.
How is this any less a problem than Japan whipping out an anime with fanservice (which maybe edited for broadcasts but not the DVD"s)?
By the same token the same people who make this same point can't reconcile how it's unoriginal and redudant. To say nothing of the hypocrisy of taking issue with Hollywood doing essentially the same thing Japan does with it's anime, manga and light novel industries. Or did they completely stop doing Isekai and post apocalytpic stories when I wasn't looking? |
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belvadeer
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I haven't seen censorship from them since forever ago. Not like they have a huge lineup of anime where nipples on boobs are even a thing anyway. |
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Coldcherrii
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Last time they did that was for Outlaw Star remastered (instead of skipping the episode or putting digital bikinis on the females). Which was about a year ago. But Adult Swim is still pretty mature for it's anime lineup. "Shit" is used often, and is uncensored for the TV broadcast. Gore is I think uncensored for the most part. |
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sonryu
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Attention all studio/producing/directing parties involved in the creation of this Hollywood adaptation of 'Attack on Titan': please watch the live action Japanese films. Then watch them again. Then make sure what you make is NOTHING LIKE THEM.
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belvadeer
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Probably because there's the whole "horrific violence is totally okay but naked women is sexist" nonsense PC culture has done to localized anime and most video games here. Whereas in Japan it's the opposite; naked women are always okay, but horrific violence has to be censored for their TV broadcasts. Blood, guts, and gore is left exactly as it is on Adult Swim. They've never censored it or the word shit. |
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leafy sea dragon
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SyFy doesn't really have the budget to make One Punch Man. It can't be approached like Sharknado, and I think everybody familiar with One Punch Man knows it.
Why does everyone turn to Rinko Kikuchi? She'd need to be dubbed over in English anyway.
I understand it: It's because hardcore fans tend to get VERY defensive and protective of what they're a fan of. Hollywood adaptations make them nervous for three reasons: Because Hollywood has had a marvelous track record (no pun intended) of putting obscure things into the mainstream, which rubs many fans the wrong way; because of your aforementioned "Glorious Japan" mindset in which international recognition somehow dulls it; and because of Hollywood's thumbprint culture, in which people who adapt things are highly encouraged to change it to make it their own, as those who don't are otherwise passed over for subsequent work (as it indicates to the executives that they weren't bold enough to "put one's thumbprint on the franchise").
Hollywood's always been doing this. When Warner Bros. adapted The Wizard of Oz to make that famous movie (and don't think it was at all faithful, nor did the actors and production crew enjoy making it), two other movie studios had already adapted it. In other words, L. Frank Baum's book was adapted three times within three decades. Don't think Gone with the Wind was a faithful adaptation of the novel either. Or The Lodger, the adaptation of the radio drama that put Alfred Hitchcock in the mainstream.
Attack on Titan airs on Toonami, which is currently a division of Adult Swim. It's not the same thing as airing it subsequently with The Amazing World of Gumball or We Bare Bears (which, don't get me wrong, are great shows too).
They didn't really understand comic books either, and that kept going on for decades until Sam Raimi and Christopher Nolan stepped in. Before that, though, was 300, which most people at the time didn't even know was adapted from the comic book retelling of the historical battle and thought that it was, well, just a retelling of the historical battle. The guys at Hollywood are going to keep trying until they succeed. THAT is when you should start crying.
Heh, I was wondering when someone would say something like this. |
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Mr. sickVisionz
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Could be decent. I'll wait for a trailer. I've actually enjoyed the last 3-4 live action adaptations I've seen.
I wonder what the tone will be. AoT is really gory and bad things happen, but it's also kinda cool and slick and high flying acrobatic fun. I could see that being hard to nail. Uber monster gore without turning into B-movie comedy like Starship Troopers, but it still has to have like fun carnage. I think it could be really easy to go too far into silly and too far into serious. |
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Xiximaro
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Well... they will probably wait out James Cameron Alita, to see if it breaks the spell. Then we will see how serious they will be with this
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Kadmos1
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Adult Swim may be legally separate from CN from an ownership standpoint, but it is part of CN from a channel standpoint. |
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