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Farafra
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So do they just want to murder this movie before it even starts filming,
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Cypher997
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Another anime being given the 'Live-Action' film treatment, another 'Razzie' nominee. Hollywood executives are insane, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when it comes turning any anime into a 'Live-Action' film (see: Ghost in the Shell, Speed Racer, Dragonball Evolution).
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penguintruth
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I think I'd rather watch G-Saviour than this.
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Nobody14
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Eh, it’ll probably not be great, but I’m up to give it a shot out of curiosity. The summary sounds like 08th MS Team, which is probably one of the easiest stories to sell to an unsuspecting audience. Or you could just do the vaguely fascist Top Gun adjacent Stardust Memory. Also Speed Racer was sick.
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There are many anime that could easily work in live action format. The problem is they keep choosing the wrong ones to adapt or don't actually commit to making it faithful. |
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GATSU
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Speed Racer was terrible, but GITS wasn't.
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Cypher997
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I will give the 'Live-Action' Speed Racer movie some credit, but I sure as hell wouldn't trust them to be able to pull off an 08th MS Team type of story. The less said about what they could do to Stardust Memory the better, some people in power are a little too eager to pull an Anavel Gato in the real world when in control of something capable of leveling civilization, last thing we do is give them more inspiration to do so. |
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Regalli
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I'll believe something actually comes of this when it's in theaters and not a minute sooner.
It admittedly didn't work for the "live action" Lion King prequel about Mufasa, but ignoring the Vague Preproduction Talks HAS worked so far for Akira so you know, it's not a complete failure of a strategy! |
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Beatdigga
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There’s actually more forward progress than with the last director, but the plot sounds so awful I want the whole thing scrapped and go back to stage 1. Masters of the Universe took two decades before they decided on a script that could work to get the movie going (and that June 2026 film is an isekai!) and I won’t mind if they keep trashing scripts and starting from scratch until they make a Gundam film that works. Which honestly should be an adaptation of the original series, not yet another 08th MS Team riff.
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mdo7
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Uh, Japan kind of F-ed up on their live-action adaptation too. I'll never forgive Japan for doing a live-action Fullmetal Alchemist and Attack on Titans because the characters in the 2 live-action should've been played by Hollywood actors instead of whitewashing or should I say "yellow-washing" the non-Asian characters in both of them. 
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Cardcaptor Takato
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So Sydney Sweeney is going to be one of the Space Nazis right?
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enurtsol
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One Piece live-action changed all that A decade ago, it wasn’t uncommon for Hollywood producers to complain that the Japanese system for adaptation rights was too difficult — authors hold all the power, approvals were slow and many had bad experiences. What has changed? It’s much easier than 20 years ago, but it’s still not easy. In the past, many manga and anime publishers were scared to work with Hollywood. They have to protect their authors above all else, because the author is king in Japan — the creator typically retains all the rights here. They also had no internal pressure to sell adaptations abroad; their domestic business was fine, and the international market didn’t seem promising yet. If a foreign adaptation went badly, they risked alienating core fans, which the author absolutely doesn’t want. Contracts also scared them. Adaptation agreements are much more complicated than direct acquisition deals. Took years educating publishers and authors on deal structures and terms. And now? Today, big publishing companies like Shueisha or Kodansha — depending on the title — are more comfortable, though author management is still crucial. The biggest change is that execs in Hollywood better understand the importance of the original author’s voice. Before, many Hollywood producers said, “We’re professionals. Just give us the story and characters; we will adapt it.” They didn’t want a rights holder with too many opinions. One Piece changed that. In Hollywood, no live-action adaptation from Japanese manga had become a big success until One Piece. Eiichiro Oda, [the beloved author of the One Piece manga], was fully involved in creative decisions for the series and spoke directly to fans about casting and choices. Fans could see the author’s hand in it. These days, authors and fanbases are huge and connected through social media. If a film ignores the author and the core fans, there’s no chance. Studios now explicitly say, “We need guidance and buy-in from the author,” otherwise the risk is too high. This is the exact opposite of how they used to talk and feel. |
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prime_pm
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I could say something snarky about casting these people in this movie or defend them by saying we should give them a chance, but honestly I have no idea who these two are. Sweeney sounds familiar? Was he Tex?
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merr
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Those were movies made for the Japanese market. Are there white Hollywood actors who speak Japanese with a native accent? That’s what would have been required to produce those movies, unless you think they should have been filmed in English. |
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Beatdigga
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Sweeney has had a fairly prolific career but her recent attempts at being a lead actress have not gone over well, particularly a disastrous turn as female boxer Christy Marx. She has also been front and center in culture war stuff I will not elaborate on, but others can feel free too. Point is, she’s not exactly universally beloved. Centieno was actually cast as He-Man/Prince Adam in one of the rejected MOTU scripts before it moved to Amazon MGM and he was replaced with Nicholas Galitzine, who actually filmed the thing for June 2026. He got his start in Disney Channel movies, but is apparently going to be Ken in the Street Fighter movie. |
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