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anime uncut
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I said the "Lost In Space" series might have been inspired from it, but I was off a decade anyway.
The live action "Star Blazers" was also a straight to video release in Japan in the mid or late 80s. |
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Tenchi
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Well, I don't know anything about that (there's no mention of a live action Yamato or Star Blazers in the Internet Movie Database; but the IMDB misses many Japanese productions), but I recall hearing the rumours that Disney was interested in doing a big-budget Star Blazers in the mid-to-late 90s, around the same time as they were proposing the live action Sailor Moon. Unlike the Sailor Moon rumours (which were true, even if Disney lost interest), I don't know how much substance there actually was to these rumours. (Not that I'd care much either way if Disney did a Star Blazers film; back in 1979, when I was 4 going on 5 (that October), I don't think any English channels in the Montreal area (including the American border stations) carried Star Blazers, so I have no childhood memories of the show for Disney to rape. The first anime I ever saw (probably in 1979, though it may have been as late as 1980) was Battle of the Planets/G-Force (really Gatchaman), which I believe was shown here in Montreal on CFCF-12. I didn't see Star Blazers at all until I was an adult, at my anime club.) |
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GATSU
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The live action Star Blazers would've changed the Yamato to the Arizona. Currently, it's in development hell. I'm still waiting for someone to announce what's going on with the live-action Battle Angel.
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GATSU
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Another live-action adaptation of an anime that's in development hell is Speed Racer.
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Tenchi
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Why? Do you actually want the live action Battle Angel to be produced, or do you just want to be reassured that it shall never, ever come to pass? Maybe your attitude on the possibility of the live action Battle Angel is similar to mine on the possibility of the live action Sailor Moon; if they did it exactly a certain way, then you'd endorse the endeavor (like how I want Disney to make the Sailor Moon movie follow the first arc of the manga much closer than the anime did), but you're about 90% certain the studio would screw it up, so you'd rather see it remain in development hell. |
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anime uncut
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I had a long post written, but server bugs made me lose it. Suffice it to say, the all American production of "Speed Racer", was made for video in 1996 or '97. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Usually, if I'm writing a long post, since I seem to either "Time Out" after about 10 minutes or so and have to log in again and lose everything I've written or I get the "overloaded server" message and lose everything I've written, is write everything I'm going to write in the message window, format it (bold, quote, italicise, hyperlink, etc...) and then copy (not cut) and paste to WORD. The I press "Preview" or "Submit", and if anything goes wrong, I have a backup copy of what I've written. Sometimes I forget to do this, though, and I have to write everything again. |
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anime uncut
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Same thing happens to me, but I wouldn't go to all that trouble, just copy it before I preview or submit, so I have it on the clip-board if I lose it. Another forum I go to, has a similar problem. |
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LordByronius
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Tenchi
Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Don't get me wrong; as a Sailor Moon fan, I'd have a high degree of anxiety should Disney (or any other American studio; I'm not picking on Disney) ever change their mind and decide to do a live action Sailor Moon movie after all. But my trepidation is primarily because 90% of the time, when a studio makes a live action version of any cartoon, they decide to do it as a sort of self-depricating parody of the animated version (ha ha; look how absurd it seems when they do they same thing they do all the time in the cartoon in live action); it has nothing to do whatsoever with that little live action short DIC did for the TV programming executives at NATPE in 1995. That was a once-off thing; either DIC or the TV execs, or probably both parties, recognized that it sucked and wouldn't fly. The TV hack producers responsible for that abomination would not be working on the live action film; they'd use real pros that have a much better idea what works and what doesn't on the big screen. One reason that I'd rather they base it on the Sailor Moon manga than base it on the anime is that, for whatever reason, movie producers usually (though not always, as the non-Burton Batman films can attest) treat comic book adaptations a lot more seriously than they do cartoon adaptations. (Oh yeah, by the way, for those of you that want to see the video, you have to go to http://www.lizzard.net/SuperS/downloads/index.html and scroll down to "It Was Almost Mighty Morphin' Sailor Moon..."; it won't let you link directly to video files from external pages.) |
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Tenchi
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Oh wait, according to this interviewwith the director responsible for that clip, it predates the 1995 NATPE (National Association of Television Programming Executives) show; it was actually produced in 1993, and was shown, presumably, at NATPE in 1994. Also, it was created for Rennaisance productions (I don't even know who they are), not DIC. |
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