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stararnold
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Which is why "Akira" makes a good choice of manga for Waner Bros. to do a movie version of, given it's about the human condition and the circumstances tied to gone-wrong experiments, not about what it means to be Japanese/Asian (no offense). Problem is some otaku in North America are too purist to understand the whole idea of remakes and re-imaginings. |
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dewlwieldthedarpachief
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But then why remake Akira when you could just make a different movie with similar themes? The Matrix owes a lot to Ghost in the Shell and Megazone 23 and it was sucessful critically and commercially.
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stararnold
Posts: 227 Location: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada |
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Call it a guess, but it's possible that the men and women at Warner Bros. are hoping that a U.S. "Akira" movie will increase interest in "Akira", and by extension anime and manga, given that anime and manga don't seem to often be as successful in appealing to the tastes of or selling to mainstreamers in North America as North American-made sitcoms like "The Simpsons" or North American-made DVD action movies like "Batman: Under The Red Hood". |
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Shenl742
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Brand recognition. |
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thefuturemrsuzumaki
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Why...why would you do that? D'8 I don't mean to be hatin' on Twilight (though I dislike it immensely) but why would you have Robert Pattinson in one of the greatest anime accomplishments of all time?
...It's nice to see live-action anime remakes in America, but Hollywood usually ends up taking over. I hope this and Cowboy Bebop don't turn out to be another Dragon Ball: Revolution...I'll cry. ;w; |
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dewlwieldthedarpachief
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Good points.
So then, because it's all a business people like me should just give up and hope for a brighter tomorrow? My personal, selfish motives here are just seeing if people agree that just because this is about making a buck doesn't mean it isn't lame and sad. Just you know, to feel like I'm not descending into madness. |
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Tomibiki
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Making a buck doesn't have to equal lame and sad, but it will always take precedent over it. Why do you think so many crappy movies get made to begin with? Because some exec looked at the script and the cast list and said "This is going to at least break even, we'll do it". The hope lies in people, with money, who desire to make good films despite how much money it will make back OR they know they have such a good product that they dare not mess with it's original formula. These people are very rare though. |
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enurtsol
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And she played Lilo in the film Lilo and Stitch, and that's why we were laughing our asses off when she appeared in The Ring. 
Or you'd end up with something like The Lion King, where some Kimba the White Lion fans were crying foul about plagiarism. Worse case scenario, Katsuhiro Otomo would sue - Japanese wanna get paid too! And let's not even bring up GATSU.
Yeah, look at a lot of anime!
Just because Bandai wants to sell a boatload of Gundam kits doesn't mean Gundam sucks. Just because plastic companies want to sell loli moe nekkid statues doesn't mean...... hmmmmmmm............ |
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Nayu
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Gods, I wish I had enough money and a studio to back my acquisition of some fringe property so I could have a washed up actor known for one role in a three season tv show spew 140 characters on a second rate social networking site and inspire a nerd rage publicity win.
This is such a win for this piece of vaporware. 
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Tomibiki
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I kinda wish Takei had the bankroll to produce film projects, since he's so passionate about this.
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GATSU
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stararnold:
If you don't think that there's anything inherently Japanese or Asian about Akira then you haven't actually seen it.
No, they really don't care about that. They just want to cash in on gullible fans and viewers like FOX with DB:E. dewl: Of course, the irony of The Matrix is that it was partly successful because it incorporated Asian themes and motifs into the main story.
No, you'll just have to wait ten years for them to reboot it right. 
enurtsol: Otomo's on board as a producer, last time I checked. Though that probably means as much as when Stephen Chow was a producer for DB:E. Tombiki: He probably does, but nothing major. |
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Strawberryelle
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eh.... I get the feeling he's just irked by it as opposed to passionate. I mean he only went as far as to make one twitter comment linking to the petition thing. |
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TitanXL
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About the subject of remakes: I don't see too much in the realm of remakes in anime; usually if a show gets remade in Japan it's either to follow the manga more closely (FMA: Brotherhood, the new Kenshin) so it's completely justified, or it's been like 20+ years since the original (Tetsuwan Atom 2003). It's not like there's a new One Peice reboot every other year like how Batman or the Ninja Turtles get a new reboot movie/cartoon every other year It's not fallacious to say America relies on remakes quite a bit more than anime does. |
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Charred Knight
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Or you are in fact a fan of animation and simply don't care about such things as "american animation," "anime," or "show aimed at girls". All you're doing is simply claiming that anime blows american animation out of the water without explaining why. There are some talented people working in anime, but the same is true for American animation, Greg Weisman has proven himself to be a genius many times over, and Lauren Faust has shown that she wants to make the best program she can, and doesn't care what anyone thinks. |
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enurtsol
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No it's not.
And anime isn't much better off neither. In either case, if you watch enough Hollywood stuff or enough anime stuff, you're bound to find some diamonds in the rough.
There's only been a few TMNT series all-time, and certainly not a new one every other year. The latest ones are really just continuations of the TMNT 2k3 version anyways. As for Batman or Superman or Justice League animation etc., there's no "original versions" of them in the first place. Goodness knows there's so many versions of the comics. There's really no original to follow - it's just the nature of the franchise to have different versions; they're not reboots. Meanwhile, Japan seemingly releases new (mostly) non-canon One Piece movies, Conan movies, Pokemon, Precure, etc. every year for like 10 straight years, so those are kinda reboots. 
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