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Behind the Scenes of Live Action(!) 1988 Appleseed




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Hon'ya-chan



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:38 am Reply with quote
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3084

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Welcome to a brave new future, where foreign characters are played by actual, emotionless foreigners. Seriously, this is an interesting look at how an anime gets made into a liveaction production. Information on this seems to be pretty scant though; somebody get to work on the Wikipedia article!


That is one mean looking Briarios. But Deunan looks like a tramp.
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abunai
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:33 am Reply with quote
I think it's possible this never made it into final production. I've never heard of it, and the "behind-the-scenes" stuff looks a lot like preliminary takes, the kind you make for an early trailer to drum up additional financing.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that this one stranded in the early stages of shooting.

- abunai
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:50 am Reply with quote
Masamune Shirow has never been credited to any live-action movie of Appleseed. The link you provided was the promotional video made for the 1988 OVA (note the "Special Prologue" subtitle), according to Wikipedia Japan.

Wikipedia Japan wrote:
OVAのプロモーション映像用に実写版が製作され、デュナン・ナッツには白人女性を起用している。

If it's true then I wonder why they spend so much efforts on a commercial of that OVA... more resources should have been diverted to the OVA itself rather than PR stuff.


GAINAX stupidity, I presume?
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