Forum - View topicNEWS: Hollywood Anime Update: Pet Shop of Horrors, Witch Hunter Robin, Sailor Moon
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Dargonxtc
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I don't know about you but all these titles coming out all of a sudden kinda scare me. I mean which ever one of these comes out first is going to determine whether anime live adaptations will continue. And we all know that there is plenty of room for these to turn into disasters. Which certainly won't any good for the anime industry.
Me I hope James Cameron's film comes first, as he does have a good record per se. I just hope he goes along the lines of Aliens, Terminator, Abyss, sort of a mix between those three, and not of Titanic, Solaris, Last Action Hero. |
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Anime_Freak
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Of course they are.  Just look at some of the recent movies they've put out. You've got the 2nd or 3rd remake of the original King Kong, Amityville Horror, The Omen, etc. So it's safe to say Holly wood really is running out of ideas, so they're resorting to remaking old classic movies, which should be left alone, I just hope and pray they don't touch Wizard of Oz, leave it be darnit.
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Abarenbo Shogun
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See!! A good case for all the wannabe Anime producers that flood Answermans box to gain employment!! |
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jmays
ANN Associate Editor
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1997 was nine years ago. I don't know anything about Disney wanting Sailor Moon a decade ago, but did Variety ever say a Hollywood studio had acquired Sailor Moon before? Because that's what they said in the new article. |
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Deltakiral
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So wait WHR is going to be a movie or a TV show, I remember back in the day Sci-fi channel was trying to develop a show out of it. I think they stop because of weak sales or something like that. I knew that Eva been in production for sometime now, the concept art I saw was pretty cool.
My best bet none of these show get release on the big screen. Till next time, Delta Kiral P.S. I would see a WHR movie. I enjoy the series very much. |
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Case
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Yes. I linked the relevant Save Our Sailors page:
http://www.iwaynet.net/~sos/liveaction.html Not all of the articles are still online, but the last one is, and it states, among other things
I can't confirm the 1997 dating, since the first articles are no longer available, but it was a big topic for me at the time and 1997 seems about right. The fact that that first sentence says "Since 1997 ... Sailor Moon ..." indicates to me that the article is not really an announcement of anything new, but rather a look back over the myriad of the live action anime adaptations that have been proposed in the last nine years. The Witch Hunter Robin thing was reported a long time ago too, wasn't it? I'm not sure if ANN reported it (your search engine is so unwieldy) but Animenation has an article on that dated January 2004: http://www.animenation.net/news/index.php?id=5836 |
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Joe Mello
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From what I can tell, this article said a whole not of nothing. But I will say one thing, Witch Hunter Robin actually makes sense.
No. Stepford Wives is probably as close as we're going to get with that. |
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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I don't get it ...
It's like someone at Variety news-googled for "anime hollywood adaptation" and wrote up whatever they could find, along with a little bit of original content for good measure? Something about the article just seems odd, like they're up to date on some stuff, and glossing on others. Last edited by Patachu on Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:28 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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goins007
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Boy I remember when all that went down, Gena Davis(sp?) was pushing this hard. I first heard about it from an interview that she did (E.W. I think). There there was the whole thing about Melissa Joan Heart playing the lead, I don't know if she ever said anything about being in talks about it or not..... |
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Case
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From what I can tell, they don't seem to be an anime-centric publication. To their readers, this might be informative. |
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jmays
ANN Associate Editor
Posts: 1390 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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We hadn't heard anything about a live-action Witch Hunter Robin in a couple of years. As far as I can tell, the Pet Shop of Horrors project hadn't been announced before. As Carlo said, the article is kind of odd, but most of the time when Variety says something, it's worth taking seriously. |
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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Understood, but it seems misinformative more than anything, running the "Bam! Pow! Asian comic-book movies!!" cheerleading routine without realizing the true situation, which is that most of the Stateside films are still in production purgatory. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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Uh... are you seriously questioning Variety? They're one of the most respected industry publications in existence. It's not like a bunch of amateurs pulling it out of their butts every day. I realize it's cool to be skeptical of the media but everything in moderation. And yes, this article is not aimed at anime fans, it's aimed at Hollywood industry folks who actually, you know, read Variety. |
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v1cious
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i never expected in a million years someone would make a movie out of Pet Shop Of Horrors. a series would probably be better though in the right hands.
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jaybug39
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Is this where I say that we need to buy anime form legitimate sources, so that it proves there is a viable market for future Hollywood productions of our favorite anime?
But then, do we really want H-wood to be making anime? look what they did to Godzilla! Fastest way to kill something is to put out a crap product, and then say no one wants to see anime. |
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