This guy will be the director of Akira Movie !!!!

[Mod]

The director of this movie will make the Akira movie ( Warner Bros. already has got the rights for it ) :mad: Judge if he is up to the task by this trailer :mad:



League of Extraordinary Men (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/lxg_trailer_large.html)

[sonaboy]

Connery is back to the fisticuffs again? Sweet...
God, i hope this movie doesn't suffer under it's own weight of hyper-realism and come off as badly as say, The Avengers.
holy crap did that movie bite the big one...

By the way, the director is Stephen Norrington. He directed the original Blade, which i consider one of the better realizations of the recent comic book hero movie frenzy. He's also doing the film of Ghost Rider.

On the original point...who decided that Akira needed a remake? It's a classic that's still vital, why bother? Norrington may be able to give that story a decent shake, but really..it's quite breathtaking on it's own already.

also on the remake platform, much to my disdain are the following:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Manchurian Candidate
Willard
Around the World in 80 Days
Stranger On a Train


Actually, there are so many remakes being planned it boggles the mind. What happened to new story ideas?

[Mod]

That's the problem, make an action director to remake a classical anime. I think that the tendency of these directors is to do things in a very simplistic way (although the action is cool). I don't think he will use post Holocaust Tokyo and a transcendental oriental way of view things.

I think he will use an American city and a boring kid to interpret Tetsuo, and lots of destruction, in which in this case is bad because it won't have the original awe and revenge feeling, but something close to independece day.

[DaveW]

I supposed Leonardo Decrapio will play Tetsuo.

[ASCI Blue]

Akira should not be a live action movie. Ever.

[fishlung]

Originally posted by Mod
The director of this movie will make the Akira movie ( Warner Bros. already has got the rights for it ) :mad: Judge if he is up to the task by this trailer :mad:
League of Extraordinary Men (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/lxg_trailer_large.html)

Thank you, Hollywood, for butchering yet another of my favourite comic books.

As for Akira... IMHO the manga is, hands-down, it's best format. The anime (though it's a good adaptation), and any potential movie, cannot hold a candle to it. I'm wholly against Hollywood butchering more of my favourite things, but that's just me. :)

[sonaboy]

Hollywood's done a fair job, I'd say - so far.

Superman
Batman
Spiderman (yes, i thought it was good)
X-men
Blade
MIB
Ghost World..

i think the real problem is the franchises that pop up after a success.
That really kills the soul of it. MIB2, superman 3, Batman and Robin *(ugh) etc...
but i agree..it kinda gives you a sinking feeling sometimes when you just KNOW they're gonna screw it up, even on first viewing.

[fishlung]

Originally posted by sonaboy
Hollywood's done a fair job, I'd say - so far.
i think the real problem is the franchises that pop up after a success.
That really kills the soul of it. MIB2, superman 3, Batman and Robin *(ugh) etc...
but i agree..it kinda gives you a sinking feeling sometimes when you just KNOW they're gonna screw it up, even on first viewing.

I'll definitely agree with you there. Oh, and the movie version of Ghost World is actually my favourite adaptation. Then again, Dan Clowes actually had a lot to do with it. But it's really well done. X-Men and Spider-Man I could deal with. The first Blade was a real pleasant surprise.

I saw the Daredevil trailer and I was thoroughly disappointed, then I saw the movie and it wasn't much better. C'mon, could they have picked a worse director (Grumpy Old Men 1 & 2)? I even thought The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren was better. It's sad to see 'em muck up the characters I love, miscast, write a horrible script and expect me to fanboyishly embrace the movie just because it's live action.

The original Superman was cool, and it scares me to think of what that franchise is going to become (I recently heard they want that kid from That '70s Show, Dude Where's My Car? and Just Married to be the lead role... I mean, ugh, I'm ready to write off movie adaptations altogether. Boy, am I picky, or what? :)

Ahem, oh yeah, and Akira... The manga rocks! It's long, and expensive, but soooo neat :)

[Mod]

Originally posted by sonaboy

Batman
Spiderman (yes, i thought it was good)
X-men
Blade
MIB
Ghost World..


But they were created in America, or at least by eatern comic creators.
I never saw an adaptation from a manga to an eastern movie. You see, even akira movie, that was classified as an action anime, had lots talking and even the conception of good and evil (if there was such conception there) were different of what we see in comics.
So, I don't expect much from that movie .

[sonaboy]

But we were talking about how Hollywood messes up COMIC BOOK heroes -
referencing The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, not anime or manga. TLOEG was written by Frank Miller, who is far and away one of the best graphic novel writers still alive. He's in the league with the likes of Neil Gaiman.

I'm willing to give this production a chance, simply on the fact that it's got some very interesting names attached and is riding the wave of Marvel heroes post - X men/spiderman.

[fishlung]

Originally posted by sonaboy
But we were talking about how Hollywood messes up COMIC BOOK heroes - referencing The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, not anime or manga. TLOEG was written by Frank Miller, who is far and away one of the best graphic novel writers still alive. He's in the league with the likes of Neil Gaiman.
I'm willing to give this production a chance, simply on the fact that it's got some very interesting names attached and is riding the wave of Marvel heroes post - X men/spiderman.

Actually, Alan Moore writes TLOEG, and yes, he is far and away one of the best writers in the biz. Personally, I enjoy his work much more than Ennis, Bendis, Morrison, Ellis, Miller, Gaiman and others whom I consider tops. Anyway, anyone interested in more Moore can check out Top 10, Promethea, From Hell, Watchmen, and on and on.

As far as the TLOEG movie goes, they've changed the characters from the book, and unnecessarily added some non-existing ones, and for me (and others in that pre-existing fan base) that really defeats the purpose of seeing them in live action. For example, Connery's character Quartermain isn't really the badass he is in the movie, but completely the opposite. Though I couldn't bet on it, the movie still has potential to be worthwhile, probably more for those who aren't already fans of the book (which are definitely the majority).

[Mod]

Originally posted by sonaboy
But we were talking about how Hollywood messes up COMIC BOOK heroes -

Yeah, but when I began this thread, and I somewhat afirmed (by showing that trailer), that atempting to recreate a manga treating it like a product of the eastern culture ( you rightly pointed out the example of comic's heroes), I think it will certainly screw everything.

[fishlung]

Originally posted by Mod
Yeah, but when I began this thread, and I somewhat afirmed (by showing that trailer), that atempting to recreate a manga treating it like a product of the eastern culture ( you rightly pointed out the example of comic's heroes), I think it will certainly screw everything.

I think it's a safe bet that it won't do the manga, or even the anime, justice at all. After all, it's Hollywood we're talking about, and they're in it to make money, which means tinkering to suit American audience demographics, not make a completely faithful adaptation. I can just hear the Akira rap-metal soundtrack now... ;)

[sonaboy]

I'm with ya there, fish lung.

[Mod]

Let's guess the cast ! :D

I bet Tetsuo will be Haley Joel Osment ! (imagine he with a mad face ! ) :D