Live Action Anime: We're Never Gonna See 'Em ...Right?

[Parodic Productions]

Speed Racer has been casted for, supposedly.

"Get ready for the ultimate fighting team! They knew nothing of their powers, but destiny would soon bring them together to stop the evil Dark Kingdom!

DIANE LANE

'I will steal this world's life energy in whatever way the director tells me to!'

If they wish to save their world, they have to fight back!

JAIME PRESSLY

'Ya'll ain't gonna mess with my world, bitch! I'll kick yer scrawny ass from here to Cancun!'

KATIE HOLMES

'Burn, baby, burn!'

THE TWO GIRLS FROM t.A.T.u.

'We're lesbians!'

ABIGAIL BRESLIN

* random squeal sounds *

MOS DEF

'Ya best not f*** wit the tux, mofo!'

AND PAMELA ANDERSON in a STUNT too LOW for even HER career

'Sailor Powers combine...or...something...Go, team, go!'

This summer, get ready for...

SAILOR MOON, THE MOVIE

directed by Francis Ford Coppola"

What? He hasn't done anything for ten years!

[Parodic Productions]

Now that I think about it, Coppola would probably cast his daughter Sofia instead.

[Serv0]

I think we have to face it: we're not going to see any live-action versions of any of our favourite animes anytime in the forseeable future.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Seriously, how many book adaptations have been made where you preferred the book instead?
What about Aeon Flux? A movie that's horrid. Apparently no justice in that movie was made besides it's box office.

transformers

/thread

x2

Count me in.

It's all about the money!
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!
It's all about the money, when it comes to adaptations for motion picture. What's going to sell?
Is Harry Potter going to sell? Hmmm...
Is Lord of the Rings going to sell? Hmmm...
Is Eragon going to sell? Hmmm..."Maybe for the first two weeks. But since the movie sucks it won't last a month. But that doesn't matter. All we need is to break the production limit within the first two weeks and we'll be fine." -Box Office Associates

It's no longer about the substance here. It's all about the greens.
Do you want the same to happen to your favorite anime?

[Big Dumb Face]

I think we have to face it: we're not going to see any live-action versions of any of our favourite animes anytime in the forseeable future.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Seriously, how many book adaptations have been made where you preferred the book instead?
What about Aeon Flux? A movie that's horrid. Apparently no justice in that movie was made besides it's box office.

transformers

/thread

x2

Count me in.

It's all about the money!
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!
It's all about the money, when it comes to adaptations for motion picture. What's going to sell?
Is Harry Potter going to sell? Hmmm...
Is Lord of the Rings going to sell? Hmmm...
Is Eragon going to sell? Hmmm..."Maybe for the first two weeks. But since the movie sucks it won't last a month. But that doesn't matter. All we need is to break the production limit within the first two weeks and we'll be fine." -Box Office Associates

It's no longer about the substance here. It's all about the greens.
Do you want the same to happen to your favorite anime?

If someone actually takes the time and makes the effort to make a work that is THAT true to the original work AND do it on a budget, then the anser is; DUDE YES!
Where are the peter Jacksons of Anime?

[Serv0]

I think we have to face it: we're not going to see any live-action versions of any of our favourite animes anytime in the forseeable future.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Seriously, how many book adaptations have been made where you preferred the book instead?
What about Aeon Flux? A movie that's horrid. Apparently no justice in that movie was made besides it's box office.

transformers

/thread

x2

Count me in.

It's all about the money!
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!
It's all about the money, when it comes to adaptations for motion picture. What's going to sell?
Is Harry Potter going to sell? Hmmm...
Is Lord of the Rings going to sell? Hmmm...
Is Eragon going to sell? Hmmm..."Maybe for the first two weeks. But since the movie sucks it won't last a month. But that doesn't matter. All we need is to break the production limit within the first two weeks and we'll be fine." -Box Office Associates

It's no longer about the substance here. It's all about the greens.
Do you want the same to happen to your favorite anime?

If someone actually takes the time and makes the effort to make a work that is THAT true to the original work AND do it on a budget, then the anser is; DUDE YES!
Where are the peter Jacksons of Anime?

Don't get me wrong, Lord of the Rings is amazing as it is. But remember the trilogy films were made for profit in the eyes of corporations, making it easy for the filmmakers to express their creativity. But consider an anime adaptation such as Transformers. It doesn't surprise me that Michael Bay is chosen for director considering the man had no respect for the franchise before he was assigned as director. Believe me, the story of Transformers in screenplay happens to be an excellent screenplay by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and John Rogers. All three hoping to stay close to both loyalty of the original Transformers and telling a well-balanced film.
But where the adaptation falls apart is in the drama of Hollywood business. Think of this stage as modernizing Transformers through Hollywood's standards.
The final product of Transformers as it is right now is different than it is in the original screenplay. The current version incorporates Michael Bay's far-out needs to incorporate more action than story-telling. Paramount thought the original screenplay was too 'kiddie'. And Paramount desired to modernize the movie by involving middle-eastern combat, political ideals, and redesigns of the bots themselves. All choices that writers can't control.
Even Lord of the Rings rang into this issue in one form or the other.
Personally, Hollywood is not the place for having such adaptations to settle.

Douglas Adams once remarked, "Getting a movie made in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it."
Now look at the quality of the film Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. IT SUCKS! Adams must be rolling in his grave.

BDF, the right people for making an anime adaptation are out there. They are willing and ready to take on the challenge. But the problem is Hollywood isn't. Hollywood doesn't have the balls to take on such a challenge. They rather bring in the cash rather than the ideas.

The closest an anime adaptation would be ripe in terms of creativity, is in the independent business.

[Big Dumb Face]

BTW, this may slighlu be offt topic but well, there seems to be some off topic stuff going on here anyway.

Why are we counting transformers as a moviebased on an anime/treating the anime as orignal material? Originally, transformers were toys. Just toys. Based on a Japanese toy, yes, but not an anime. The first fiction was Marvel comics. There were japanese spinoffs off the comics, but they were remakes. So can you really say that the newer remakes are "shitty derivitive stuff" when even the "original" anime is anything but? Is the first anime more valid because it is older? Or is this all off topic because we're talking about a comic book adaptation instead of an anime adaptation.

Keep in mind, I'm on acid while writing this, so pleas be brutal in your response.

[AnnieMay]

Live Action Casshern had some okay visuals, but was pretty fail in every other aspect.

My biggest bone to pic was that as beautiful as some of the imagery was they moved to fast to really be seen

[Heero_Yuy84]

I just keep remembering the last time North America over-saw a live-action anime treatment...

G-Saviour was such a complete failure on both sides of the Pacific that Sunrise Japan effectively struck its existence from the Gundam continuity entirely.