Forum - View topicNEWS: Makoto Shinkai's your name. Film Gets Live-Action Hollywood Adaptation
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KENZICHI
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Definitely an adaptable story, but just, no thanks.
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Key
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Sorry to spoil your timeline there, but comic book-based movies have been a steadily-recurring thing for decades. The surge of them started before the surge of young adult novels that you're talking about did. And it's not like young adult adaptations haven't been going on for decades, either. |
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relyat08
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The staff is definitely about as good as I could imagine. Still have zero interest in this though. I feel like it's both too soon, and just not a good choice to adapt. It'll just be yet another Hollywood rom-com with a twist. And those are not usually all that great. Not to mention basically this same twist has already been done in a few other movies like The Lake House. Also, What made this special to a lot of people was the fact that it was animated, and animated immaculately. I just don't see the appeal of this at all. |
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Stuart Smith
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That is precisely why. Animation simply isn't respected as an artform in America. The movie did amazing in Asian countries like China and Korea, but it's performance in American box offices was atrocious. Hollywood knows its a huge film, but it's animated medium instantly turns off 99% of American moviegoers who view animated movies as kids fare. Live-action adaptions are the only way to get the public to see an animated work not for kids in theaters. To most Americans, it's just a cartoon. -Stuart Smith |
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dtp98
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Ad that's what gets me the most about, not only this, but most Live-Action anime adaptations in general. It's like essentially saying "Yeah, your work is good, but the only way we'll truly recognize it as a "success" if if you change it to meet our standards." |
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PurpleWarrior13
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At least they have a solid (Oscar nominated) writer this time. Death Note's downfall was hiring the Fantastic Four writer. You can have Scorsese as a director, but if you have a crap screenplay, there's still little chance the project could turn out good. Also, having JJ Abrams on board shows that they're at least taking the project somewhat seriously.
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Codeanime93
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Though I'm sure Hollywood and the writers would change a lot of it and make the age gap at the end of the movie between the two smaller than the anime. probably will make the girl older than she was to begin with. |
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Heishi
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All I gotta say is: Hot damn, did not expect this!
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MJKS
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It will open in theaters three weeks after Akira.
That's an impressive (theoretical) creative commitment though. And credit to Abrams (I assume) for acting so quickly. |
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ParaChomp
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How do properties spread around THIS quickly?
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Baggie_Saiyan
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JJ is just a current hot fancy name in Hollywood for Scifi they're just piggy backing off name by having him produce. Also this script writer wrote Final Destination 5... Arrival was good mostly thanks to the directing the script itself wasn't that great imo, the rest of his filmography is pretty poor also. |
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Kadmos1
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@leafy sea dragon: I have an Imgur upload of an e-mail response I got from Disney historian Jim Korkis almost 7 months agoabout a blog post. The e-mail was about a claim on a blog that Walt didn't really create Mickey Mouse, as that was Ub Iwerks.
Jim Korkis is considered 1 of the foremost Disney historians, so I trust his words. The link is imgur.com/B8QMJo5 and the image is called "Walt didn't admit Ub Iwerks was the real Mickey creator." |
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Lemonchest
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One hopes that this will be more Girl With the Dragon Tattoo & less Let Me In; although with JJ involved I do wonder if they'll go overboard on making the "sci-fi ending" an FX extraveganza.
& if it shocks you that Hollywood would want to adapt/remake a popular non-English language property for a general English speaking audience, I envy your youth & inexperience. |
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Zin5ki
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Is there any news about these incessant adaptations that cannot be summarised by this famous quote?
If it's Shinkai that Mr Abrams wants, take Children Who Chase Lost Voices instead! That was a dour film that can only be improved through further iterations. If cash is his goal—as is perhaps more likely—then he may as well invest in property like all the other monied types! Inner-city rents only rise, as we all know. |
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Morry
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Please don't take one of the best animated films from last year and butcher it. Death Note at least had a universal premise before the hollywood mentality got dumped on it. This is uniquely Japanese in nature and just doesn't need the remake.
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