Forum - View topicNEWS: Live-Action Astro Boy Film Heads to New Line, Acquires Writers
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Teophan
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Oh boy. This can only go one of two ways. It's either good or horrible.
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Lostlorn Forest
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This won't be any different success-wise than the 2009 film, and I hope it stays that way. Keep your distance from anime, Hollywood. Bugger off now
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Themaster20000
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Sounds like it's going to be a hilarious disaster with those writers.
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Teophan
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Think about it. Who's going to play Astro and how much CGI is going to be needed to make it all look the way the anime does? Dear god, all I can see is another speed racer. NOOOO!!!!!
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Animeking1108
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See, the difference is that the "Speed Racer" movie was intentionally cheesy because the show it was based on is dated as all get-out. "Astro Boy," on the other hand, can be serious when it needs to be. My big concern is that if this actually does manage to get a sequel, are they going to keep recasting Astro's actor? Because he's a robot and he doesn't physically age, and the reason why Tenma abandoned him was because he couldn't grow up. |
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EricJ2
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If only it WAS crazy-in-the-good-way to be another Speed Racer, it would be faithful. 
As it is, this is just stubbornness dating back to the 90's--Oh, remember those long ago 90's, when "the new Japanimation thing" first hit, and old-fogey marketers tried to show how "in touch" they were with it by merchandizing Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Kimba, G-Force and Gigantor? (Wonder whatever happened to that Kimba movie Disney said they were going to make...  )
There was talk of "tapping into the anime craze" with a live-action Astro fresh out of the gate, but that fell out of favor, got picked up as Imagi's not-too-shabby-at-all CGI movie, the poor release didn't do much for the box office, and Imagi later went under. Here, the new producers are just pretending that earlier version didn't exist, and that they're the ones finally taking that old 90's memo out of mothballs. |
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Knight-Hart
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I don't necessarily think that the West shouldn't adapt any anime content. For instance, I'd love to see a Western adaption of Death Note. If done well, most things can be amazing. |
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Teophan
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I'd love to see these turned into live action
Oh, they have to redo Fist of the North Star. I still remember being 12, sliding the cassette into the VCR and watching the 1995 straight-to-video version with Vader. |
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Gemnist
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Frankly, the 2009 film is was actually one of my favorite Hollywood anime adaptations. Sure it wasn't entirely accurate and was a bit darker, but it still was a decent movie and generally had a similar origin story. But Astro Boy is one of those many series that can never be live-action; it's too cartoony.
I honestly think that most anime-based movies made in the US have to be animated if they are to look good. That doesn't mean that there can't be good live-action adaptations in the future (Death Note should be good, and Attack on Titan would be GOLDEN), but the frivolous character designs, long stories, and cultural differences with most series makes most such movies inevitably bad (the Naruto and Bleach movies will probably be disasters). |
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Animeking1108
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I thought the 2009 movie wasn't that bad either. The only reason I hate that it bombed was because it got the "Gatchaman" movie cancelled, and from what I've seen with story-boards and trailers, it looked like it could have been pretty awesome. Hell, it would have been a better "Gatchaman" adaptation than the 2013 live action movie and "Crowds." People seem to forget that "Edge of Tomorrow" proved that Hollywood can get movies based off of Japanese properties right. The problem is that they have worse luck than video games by ending up in the wrong hands. |
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F-Man
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Lest we forget the live-action Pluto film still isn't canceled. So we have two live-action films and an animated series of Astro Boy coming right now.
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Apollo-kun
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(To the tune of the Astro Boy theme)
Soaring high in the sky/ It's a remake I don't why/ Even exists/ It's so pointless/ Don't do this to Astro Boy! |
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Kadmos1
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This is like something bad waiting to happen. They have the rights and they could make it into a good movie. However, how many years will we have to wait before it finally comes to theaters?
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leafy sea dragon
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Another thing to consider here: Animal Logic is the studio that did the CGI for The Lego Movie. It was indistinguishable from the actual stop-motion Lego scenes. They're very, very good at what they do.
They also have to pick the right ones too. The top two I could think of that could work are Death Note and Monster, and they were both chosen, so some of these guys has their heads on straight. I'd say the same goes for adapting video games into movies. Some can work, most cannot. Heck, I'd say the same goes with pretty much any other storytelling medium. When a novel gets adapted into a movie, it's usually a thriller by someone like Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, or a science fiction by someone like Carl Sagan or Isaac Asimov, or a horror by someone like Stephen King, or a children's book by someone like Dr. Seuss or Judy Blume. Sometimes you get mysteries by way of Janet Evanovich. But you'll rarely ever see any movie based on a book by Danielle Steele or Vladimir Nobokov or William Faulkner or John Coetzee: Their writing styles, preferred genres, and favorite themes can't translate well to movies. Hollywood wisely ignores these authors. Hollywood always begins with an experimental phase, trying anything that's popular and has had proven long-term success. Once Hollywood find a combination of source material and creative team that works, they'll go with that. One only needs to see all the terrible Shakespeare adaptations early cinema had. Something else to consider is that Hollywood has always deviated very far from its source material, and many of those movies became classics. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory played extremely loose with the book it was based on, while Shrek is completely unrecognizable from William Steig's little book. No doubt the existing fans were enraged when those movies came out. Heck, Roald Dahl disliked Willy Wonka so much that he prohibited any movie studio from making something based on its sequel, Charlie and the Glass Elevator. This is, of course, not to mention every single time Disney has taken an existing work and changed it heavily to critical acclaim and box office success. |
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TonyTonyChopper
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I'd rather seen the remaining mising episodes of the 1960 anime already coming out already i know this doesn't have anything to do with that...
But the series that really made astro boy famous is not only edited but 89 episodes have never been released outside of Asia !!! cause NBC made a deal to take another 52 episodes (this can be considerd the international version..) in exhange that Mushi coudn't sell more of it to anyone else outside of Asia ... I have both Japanese dvd set's both 18 discs each i'm sure it would sell alright if they would just release it but at this rate not in a 1000 years ... |
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