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donhumberto
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Awesome, definitely keeping a close eye on this one
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residentgrigo
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Supercrooks is less than 100 pages long and barely has a story. One of Millar´s lesser Hollywood pitches. Netflix somehow burned over 200 million on Jupiter´s Legacy (the 2 main minis are alright) but this grandfathered-in spinoff will have to live with the budget for like one CW episode. Millarworld keeps being a mess.
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ColdCase
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is super crooks any good?i mean it feels such a random pick, why would netflix hire a Japanese studio to do a comic book adaptation |
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jdnation
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It's a fun little heist read. Not the greatest thing in the world, but entertaining enough to be a fun action anime film or OVA short series. So if the action spectacle side of things holds up it'd be awesome - like in the vein of cult classic MADHOUSE stuff like Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust etc. I feel Millar's stuff could fare better being anime rather than live-action. Smaller budget whilst no limits on adapting the big set-piece moments. |
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RockSplash
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Going to go out on a hunch, but the anime has a completely different looking cast. I would not be surprised if this was more of a spin off then straight up adaption. |
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MFrontier
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I think this will be a good fit for BONES.
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Dian Z
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I really hope for this being really good and successful. Mainly because if it does really well, there's a chance for those who have never really given Japanese anime a chance or look down on it based on what is often stereotyped or seen in a certain 'type' of anime, would start appreciating and being more open minded of the art. Having a western source material could be a bridge for introduction to anime. I know there have been some anime titles adapting western materials (last one I remember were Blade Runner and Altered Carbon spin offs), but this could potentially be more mainstream/on the front of Netflix lineup.
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residentgrigo
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The characters in the police lineup are from the comic and "Hollywood anime" never made any impact so far. The Dark Knight anthology anime film, the one for Halo, the ones for RE, the ones for Starship Troopers, etc. The list is quite long.
I tried to recall the plot of the comic and only remembered the premise and its lead character. I then looked at the comic and noticed that the protagonist in my head was from a somewhat similar MPH. Also by Millar of course. They should have adapted MPH to a movie instead. Still nothing special but I can kinda see how MPH would work due to basically looking at storyboards. Supercrooks is much worse told. It frankly comes of as the pitch to a pitch. More than half of Millar´s Image comics are just that. Hollywood pitches that forget to be good comics first. Most of them look very professional and all the artists got royalties out of the ass so Millar is a bit of hack but he at least pays his artists. Do YOU want to become a millionaire? Draw a TPB worth of issues he can present to his Hollywood connections and get half the royalties after he somehow sells the rights. He almost always does. My favorite part of Millarworld is the first Kick-Ass movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millarworld Jupiter's Legacy Vol 1+2 are ironically the best products due to Frank Quitely doing the art. Hups? |
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