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Lycosyncer
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Can't this thing just die already?! How many more director changes will this thing have before Warner Bros. gets the hint that no one wants this to happen?
Oh well, with Justin Lin being the biggest Asian American director ever right now and how hugely successful his Fast & Furious movies are including the upcoming Star Trek Beyond, I really hope that he gets some leeway and let him be given the chance to hire unknown Asian American actors for the two main lead roles because if that happens, it would help make this film stand out. |
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Zhou-BR
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Western live-action Akira: the bad idea that just won't die.
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Zin5ki
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It would be my usual inclination to agree with this, but no matter how much of a miscue this film project may be, it can hardly be the worst example of a "bad idea that just won't die" that we have had to countenance recently... |
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Kreion
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Why would an action director put Star Trek, a serious notorious for not having much action in it, back on track? I think he could do good work in Akira, but if anything he's just going to make Star Trek more like Star Wars, they may as well have never used the name. |
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ICO44
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Ugh....we already have Akira with beautiful hand drawn animation, why would I want to see love action filled with crappy CG of it!!?
Hollywood should should just stick with making Marvel or DC movies. |
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jesusalcala11
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Well this isn't for you, this is for the masses. A live-action film of Akira would have a larger audience than the animation piece. |
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mrsatan
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The masses don't want this. They don't know what it is and don't care. I'd even bet that most millennial anime fans don't know what it is. |
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residentgrigo
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@Kreion Less that half of Lin´s directorial efforts are in the action genre and the phenomenal Star Trek 2009 was one too. The 2nd trailer got a great reception and i even liked the first. But what do i know, i only saw all of the the original show / the toon, TNG, DS9 (the best one) + the good films.
The $2 billion grossing director + Simon Pegg are going to run ST into the ground, sure... @PurpleWarrior13 Nolan is too good for work for hire now and he could have "only" produced, if anything. Nolan last production effort lead to the DCEU, so at least i am happy. MoS is the best Superman film ever and UC BvS turned out to be a pure masterpiece. I would pay good money to live on Earth 3 where a Nolan + Snyder Akira came to life. But Lin is cool too. He would never white wash for one and Akira is a partial action manga / film, which is a win/win with Mr. FF. |
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EricJ2
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BECAUSE: Justin Lin, James Wan and Jon Chu have now become the "Unholy trinity" of directors who became famous for turning any movie into an Instant Franchise Entry, for studios who want to market five-year sequel/spinoff-strategies rather than make actual movies, and have put out their shingles for any studio to call on. (Ask yourself, why would Wan, the director of Saw, Paranormal Activity and the Conjuring, and all their many spinoffs, do an Aquaman movie for Warner, and why would both Lin and Wan each do a Fast & Furious movie for Universal?...Look at Conjuring 2 and Insidious 3 in theaters, and don't strain yourself guessing.) Lin is already doing Paramount's Star Trek movie, as Paramount is searching for another "house-brand" name after the Turtles and Transformers, a Space Jam sequel for Warner who wants to restart their Looney Tunes franchise, and another Bourne movie for Universal, as Universal wants some more franchises to go with F&F and the Monsters. And if Warner wants him to finish off That Darn Unwanted Akira Movie....I think we know what Warner has in mind. Anyone wanna put ten bucks down for the betting pool? 
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jesusalcala11
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My comment meant that these films aren't being produced to please fans; there aren't enough fans to make that worth the cost. They are produced for the general audience.
Which is what marketing is for. Let's take a look at Edge of Tomorrow. Every ad I saw said nothing about being based on the work All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The only reason I knew that was because ANN covered it. What I did see was the name Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, action, explosions, and aliens. If they can get big names on Akira then it should be marketable. You are correct in saying the masses don't know or care about it, and it will be the marketer's job to make them know and make them care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow#Marketing |
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AnimeLordLuis
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Warner Brothers really needs to just accepted defeat with this movie it's never going to get finished (or even started) and WB has already dumped millions of dollars into this project money that they're never going to get back. It's time they cut there loses and just move on.
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BadNewsBlues
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Only if you're a big fan of his works like Sucker Punch and Batman vs Superman Dawn Of Justice.........which most people weren't.
Just because they didn't ask for, they don't know what it is, doesn't mean they couldn't conceivably care about it.
Most people pretty much said the same thing about the idea of a Justice League movie 10-12 years ago....now it's happening though of course they had to sacrifice a lot to pull it off, and it may very well be a divisive work just like the movie that set it up but hey. Gotten take risks. |
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MagusGuardian
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I still get a laugh at people who go into barns and noble look at all you need is kill in the manga section and say it's a knock off of edge of tomorrow while getting their nuts in a twist arguing the movie was better and that the manga is crap |
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dragonrider_cody
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Lots of people are posting as if Akira is the first film to bounce around in Hollywood pergatory for years. It's actually very, very common. In fact, some of the most successful Hollywood releases were ideas and scripts that sat locked away in someone's office for a decade plus. If ANN weren't coveting it so actively, most of the people here wouldn't be aware of all the issues it's had.
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GATSU
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No point in a live-action Akira, when you got Suicide Squad coming out in a couple months.
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