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NEWS: Live-Action Attack on Titan Confirmed for 2 Films

This is one of the few cases where I wish there'd be a big budget Hollywood adaptation of an anime. I don't think anyone really expects these movies to be good.

Oneeyedjacks wrote:

This is one of the few cases where I wish there'd be a big budget Hollywood adaptation of an anime. I don't think anyone really expects these movies to be good.

I say the same with Gantz.

KH91 wrote:

Oneeyedjacks wrote: This is one of the few cases where I wish there'd be a big budget Hollywood adaptation of an anime. I don't think anyone really expects these movies to be good. I say the same with Gantz.

Must disagree, the Gantz movies rock, albeit the first one moreso than the second.

The main problem is the budget, FX technology etc. Japan's movies suffered from awful quality and with today movie standard, nearly all movie required CG and Japan's are terrible. Look at the Partlabour movie, the mecha looks like a PS2 generated. Besides, Japanese movie tends to have much lower budget compare to Hollywood. And Hollywood has the guts to throw in shit tons of cash because of English language, it will has great sales compare to Japanese language. I really looking forward to Hollywood 2nd attempt on Godzilla.

I love Japanese cinema, but when it comes to films with heavy special effects, the production value looks stale. The Gantz duology I believe is the most expensive Japanese film(s) of all time, but the budget was no higher than, say, American Hustle. One of the reason I'm not looking forward to the adaptation of Attack the Titan.

I laugh at the people that attacked Hollywood for whitewashing Asian character (which well I can understand), yet these same people don't attack this film production for whitewashing European characters.

mdo7 wrote:

I laugh at the people that attacked Hollywood for whitewashing Asian character (which well I can understand), yet these same people don't attack this film production for whitewashing European characters.

While I understand what you mean here, the term 'whitewashing' doesn't exactly make sense in this context.

RACISM! They casted an Asian for a British man!

In all seriousness, I actually had the thought of a BB movie the other day, with David Tennant as Sebastian.

Hagaren Viper wrote:

mdo7 wrote: I laugh at the people that attacked Hollywood for whitewashing Asian character (which well I can understand), yet these same people don't attack this film production for whitewashing European characters. While I understand what you mean here, the term 'whitewashing' doesn't exactly make sense in this context.

Well you know how people complain and bash at Hollywood whenever they adapt anime/manga into live-action and throwing in "Whitewash" because they're changing Asian characters into non-Asian characters, how come these same people never made a big deal when Japanese film does something similar like when Japan did a live-action Thermae Romae, they had Japanese actors playing as Roman:



and I was told there were non-Asian extras in the film. Also remember the live-action Black Butler where Hiro Mizushima played Sebastian (a non-Asian character). I mean nobody complain over these whitewashing (or should I say "yellowwashing"). I mean somebody pointed this out:

Animeking1108 wrote:

RACISM! They casted an Asian for a British man! In all seriousness, I actually had the thought of a BB movie the other day, with David Tennant as Sebastian.

@mdo7

I thought the same as Hagaren Viper when I read your comment. The point is that it's not "whitewashing" because they're casting Asians as non-Asians whereas "whitewashing" is casting non-Asians as Asians. Your term usage was just incorrect, though we know what you meant.

Also, I think whitewashing is more of an issue with Hollywood movies because there are plenty of Asian actors available. In Japan however, there are not many non-Asian actors available so the choices are very limited. (Btw, I haven't heard of any Kuroshitsuji fans who actually liked the live-action movie.)

I said the same thing about the cast on another page and people started calling me a racist.