So, Akira's live action remake's synopsis just came out.

[Pickle Inspector]

I hope they do something cool like Tron 2 did to pay homage to the orignal soundtrack but with a more modern twist, Akira has a lot of good tracks:

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[Recoil]

Jesus christ, do they think people won't 'get it' unless they localize the shit outta erryting?

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Sounds like it will be awful.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I love that they change Kaneda and Tetsuo's relationship from close friends to straight up brothers. I dunno, that's a minor thing compared to all the other shit, but one of the more tragic elements from the movie was the way their friendship dissolved as Tetsuo got more powerful.

Could it work with them as brothers? Maybe? But it also simplifies their relationship. Like you'd expect two brothers to be close.

Of course, this movie's gonna be shit either way in its attempt to Westernize a story deeply rooted in post-WW2 Japanese angst and fear of nuclear annihilation. You can't really emulate that fear when you haven't had a nuke dropped on you.

 

[Recoil]

I love that they change Kaneda and Tetsuo's relationship from close friends to straight up brothers. I dunno, that's a minor thing compared to all the other shit, but one of the more tragic elements from the movie was the way their friendship dissolved as Tetsuo got more powerful.

Could it work with them as brothers? Maybe? But it also simplifies their relationship. Like you'd expect two brothers to be close.

Of course, this movie's gonna be shit either way in its attempt to Westernize a story deeply rooted in post-WW2 Japanese angst and fear of nuclear annihilation. You can't really emulate that fear when you haven't had a nuke dropped on you.

Exactly. You make them brothers, it puts less load on the writer and the actors. What a fockin cop out.
It's a good example of Telling and not Showing.

 

[Fashy Airship]

"When a young man’s telekinesis is discovered by the military, he is taken in to be turned into a super weapon and his brother must race to save him before Manhattan is destroyed by his powers. Kaneda is a bar owner in Neo-Manhattan who is stunned when his brother Tetsuo is abducted by Government agents lead by the Colonel. Desperate to get his brother back, Kaneda agrees to join Ky Reed and her underground movement who are intent on revealing to the world what truly happened to New York City 30 years ago when it was destroyed.
Kaneda believes their theories to be ludicrous, but after facing his brother again is shocked when he displays telekinetic powers. Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy. Akira, who has taken control of Tetsuo’s mind, Kaneda clashes with the Colonel’s troops on his way to stop Tetsuo from releasing Akira, but arrives too late. Akira soon emerges from his prison courtesy of Tetsuo as Kaneda races to save his brother before Akira once again destroys Manhattan island as he did thirty years ago."
So, this sounds fucking awful.

Here's partly why:

Kaneda was a bad-ass teenage biker gang leader in Neo-Tokoyo who was akin to a rebel without a cause, and engaged in a partial gang-war.

Now they are making him a bar-owner? That's quite a stretch in both prowess and the age-range. Hope this dies in development hell where it belongs.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Why does Hollywood have so much trouble tying it's own shoes? Why exactly does the whole of the film industry find it so difficult to just make a straight adaptation? Oldschool Disney wouldn't have strayed from the source this badly. I wish ol' Walt didn't die before making his Astro Boy movie, it would've been an interesting piece of film to examine in the very least.

 

[Mr. A. L. Mao]

I'm especially disturbed by the implication that a large part of New York dying in an explosion is a bad thing

Part of me is almost glad Berserk STILL isn't over because I have a hunch it would be next on the chopping block of things to be ruined via live action Americanized woke shit.

N-no
Guts will have a mutual loving interracial gay relationship with the pedophile soldier, Griffith will be pansexual instead of gay-for-pay and will have a long speech about how love is love, casca will have long hair and be mute until the events of the eclipse (forced eye contact) cause her to cut her hair and learn to speak her truth, half of the inhabitants of the medieval fantasy europe stand in will be non-white, skull knight will be a wise black man...

 

[frozenrunner]

All the food in the script should be changed to hamburgers so I understand the movie

????

Why does Hollywood have so much trouble tying it's own shoes? Why exactly does the whole of the film industry find it so difficult to just make a straight adaptation? Oldschool Disney wouldn't have strayed from the source this badly. I wish ol' Walt didn't die before making his Astro Boy movie, it would've been an interesting piece of film to examine in the very least.

"Fans won't pay to watch a story they already know. We have to change it to make it more interesting!" - Some Hollywood Fag, Probably

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

"Fans won't pay to watch a story they already know. We have to change it to make it more interesting!" - Some Hollywood Fag, Probably

Netflix fags are already saying that about Cowboy Bebop, so you aren't far off.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Exactly. You make them brothers, it puts less load on the writer and the actors. What a fockin cop out.
It's a good example of Telling and not Showing.

There was that US Gundam remake script that made Char into Amuro's younger brother.

"Fans won't pay to watch a story they already know. We have to change it to make it more interesting!" - Some Hollywood Fag, Probably

Almost word for word what the Netflix Cowboy Bebop writer said.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Are there any anime to live action movies which haven’t been disasters? Even the few manga to live action movies were bad like “All you Need is Kill” to “Edge of Tomorrow.”

 

[frozenrunner]

"Edge of Tomorrow"

bad

what

 

[WaltherPPGAY]

so they move it from tokyo to new york?
and keep most character names the same, except for kei, who is renamed "ky reed"?
why? what is the point of these changes?

also turning anime into live action is always exceptional

They want to avoid the whitewashing accusations. I'm presuming "Ky Reed" will be played by a black woman.

Now they are making him a bar-owner? That's quite a stretch in both prowess and the age-range. Hope this dies in development hell where it belongs.

John Cho can't play a teenager, so what else do you expect them to do? Find another Asian man who can act?

 

[mr.moon1488]

what

It was pretty bad compared to the manga. They took a lot of shit out, and changed the ending pretty dramatically.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I thought they already did years ago

 

[Damn Near]

another thing nobody asked for and nobody will watch

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Are there any anime to live action movies which haven’t been disasters? Even the few manga to live action movies were bad like “All you Need is Kill” to “Edge of Tomorrow.”

The answer is a big fat no on all fronts. I think your best shot for a mediocre live action anime adaptation is Ghost in the Shell which had a wishy washy 'amnesia' plot that could not stop referencing the Puppet Master plot from the original movie. The thing that pissed me off the most about it as a film is that it kept flirting with the idea that it would be just a live action version of the first movie and then it steered itself off the road into a ditch at the last minute to be 'unexpected'. The real killer to all of these anime movies, however, is how the characters are altered to be the antithesis of the way they were from their source material, even the Major isn't spared that treatment.

 

[Night Owl]

Are there any anime to live action movies which haven’t been disasters? Even the few manga to live action movies were bad like “All you Need is Kill” to “Edge of Tomorrow.”

I thought Speed Racer was fun. I can't speak for the anime itself, but it's colorful, cheesy and doesn't take itself too seriously.

 

[BrunoMattei]

The answer is a big fat no on all fronts. I think your best shot for a mediocre live action anime adaptation is Ghost in the Shell which had a wishy washy 'amnesia' plot that could not stop referencing the Puppet Master plot from the original movie. The thing that pissed me off the most about it as a film is that it kept flirting with the idea that it would be just a live action version of the first movie and then it steered itself off the road into a ditch at the last minute to be 'unexpected'. The real killer to all of these anime movies, however, is how the characters are altered to be the antithesis of the way they were from their source material, even the Major isn't spared that treatment.

I thought the Ghost in the Shell film was okay. Not great but not terrible. Fantastic visuals. But it lost the point of the original film and that whole universe under Oshii. Oshii really brought out the whole existential element and all of the intelligence with it to the series that was absorbed into Stand Alone Complex. And when you take that away you get just pretty visuals without a plot. Just like the manga.