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NEWS: Deadline: Brian K. Vaughan to Write Live-Action Gundam Film

This is because of Ready Player One, isn’t it?

At the risk of being contrarian, Warren Ellis also had the credentials of a successful comic writer and his adaption of Castlevania for Netflix was extremely inaccurate to the source material and not very good.

Yeah, but was it bad for things that actually make anime bad or bad because the plot wasn't identical to a NES game from the 1980s?

Yeah, but was it bad for things that actually make anime bad or bad because the plot wasn't identical to a NES game from the 1980s?

Mr. sickVisionz wrote:

Yeah, but was it bad for things that actually make anime bad or bad because the plot wasn't identical to a NES game from the 1980s?

If you ignore the inaccuracies, you're still left with an oddly paced series that relies on edgy and crude dialog and seems to sideline it's main characters a lot. Its not a terrible show on it's own, but usually the point of an adaption is for people to see a work they enjoy in a new medium, and when the adaption is so far removed from the source material it begs the question of why they didn't just make it an original production instead. Ellis turned a series about holy warriors of the church fighting evil demons into an Atheist talking point about how Christianity is awful. It doesn't really make sense, and Igarashi said about as much himself last year at the Bloodstained panel at SXSW when he seemed confused by some of the decisions of the Netflix series. He specifically disliked all the changes made to Sypha in particular to fit the new anti-religious narrative.

At the risk of being contrarian, Warren Ellis also had the credentials of a successful comic writer and his adaption of Castlevania for Netflix was extremely inaccurate to the source material and not very good. Just because someone is a successful comic writer doesn't mean they can make good movies or television, nor does it mean they are good at adapting existing properties. This is still a Hollywood movie at it's core, not a small auteur project where Vaughan has total control over everything. I don't expect it to be that faithful or great.

While I love Vaughan as a writer and comic artist simply having him writing the script doesn't guarantee success. It's a good first step, but a shitty director and bad actors can ruin even the best scripts. In terms of visuals I don't think Gundam would be any harder to do than other blockbusters Hollywood has done. The real thing to watch for is who winds up directing it, and then who they get to star in it.

Sam Murai wrote:

I really hope it is an AU, not so much out of concern for parlaying something like MSG into a (single?) live-action movie, but that it would be less potentially-confusing for an audience to just simply watch a film with a new story from the ground up, rather than one with a bunch of crammed-in content. Also, I would imagine it would be much more relaxing both for someone like Vaughn to craft something with less narrative restraints like with an adaptation, and for producers to not worry about fans dumping of the film and its faithfulness (and thus potentially impacting its hype). Fans are used to alternate universes and takes on the franchise, so someone coming up with something new might actually be more welcomed than derided.

.....Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a contingent of Gundam fans who hate most of the AU gundam series set outside of UC. Plus as it's an adaptation it's going to open itself up to criticism regardless.

I’ll just go and say I don’t think an AU will be THAT big a deal when one of the more popular entries in the US is G Gundam and its pure unadulterated insanity.

Just make it a space war movie and for the love of God don’t make it an AGE adaptation.

Beatdigga wrote:

they’re gonna to cast Tom Holland as Amuro.

What have you started?

Chris Pine as Char Aznable: