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INTEREST: Akira Script Discussed by Cowboys & Aliens Writers

Ugh, this is going to be absolutely terrible.

This is why I don't bother with movies anymore. I've seen everything already, because all they release are sequels, remakes and comic book adaptations.

minamikaze wrote:

Ugh, this is going to be absolutely terrible. This is why I don't bother with movies anymore. I've seen everything already, because all they release are sequels, remakes and comic book adaptations.

Not everything in hollywood movies is sequels, remakes and comic book adaptations because some movies, even in this century do introduce characters that just start out in movies. As for comic book adaptations, they're there to increase fan interest in the comics they're based on so as to help the comic industries get a boost in sales, so get used to it, comic fan or not. If you don't want a U.S. "Akira", you don't have to watch it, but I'm sure some people will love to watch it, so don't ruin it for them is what I say.

By the way, most anime so far are based on what's not anime originated (manga and video games for instance) and sequels and remakes do happen with anime from time to time (ex: "Mobile Suit Gundam Seed" had the sequel "Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny"), but you don't hear many people complaining about it, so why complain about hollywood wanting to do more comic book-based movies, sequels and remakes, or are you trying to set a double standard arguing that it's alright for Japan to do sequels/remakes/comic book movies but not ok for U.S. to do any?

Katsuhiro Otomo gave his blessing to a "re-imagination" of his manga Akira, according to two of the scriptwriters who were involved with the in-development American remake.

This is why I don't bother with movies anymore. I've seen everything already, because all they release are sequels, remakes and comic book adaptations.

Besides, the movies will be based on the Akira manga. I doubt many people here have read that (and much of the new anime fans haven't seen the anime film neither), so it will be new to them.

enurtsol wrote:

Besides, the movies will be based on the Akira manga. I doubt many people here have read that (and much of the new anime fans haven't seen the anime film neither), so it will be new to them.

You're forgetting that the manga has more drug abuse, sex and gore, which certainly won't be in the live-action movie

and I'm sure the role of the U.S. military will be very different.

Besides, the movies will be based on the Akira manga. I doubt many people here have read that (and much of the new anime fans haven't seen the anime film neither), so it will be new to them.

I have not read any manga, so any anime I see that is based on it is new to me.

People will doubt it, they will sneer at it maybe, but when the right director, and the right elements come together and that thing happens... then, people are going to be blown away

It will become another sort of manifestation of it, and it will be unbelievably cool