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NEWS: Live-Action Sword Art Online Series Adds Writer-Producers Patrick Massett, John Zinman

My state of mind when reading such things, and one I'd recomend everyone to have:

Expectation from a hollywood live-action adaptation of an anime: It's gona be garbage

Reasoning behind this:
If it ends up being garbage: as expected
If it's better than garbage: something to be happy about!
If it's a masterpiece: Happyness EX

This is far better compared to the "usual" way to take such situations:

Usual expectations: It could be great! they have the money! And lots of experts!
If it ends up being garbage: rage EX and/or sadness EX
If it's better than garbage but below normal: Rage C~A++, Sadness C~A++
If it's normal: Neutral state of mind, disappointment A
If it's better than normal: Happyness E~B++
If it's as masterpiece: Happyness A


With this I mean to say that, if one's looking at it with skepticism and expecting what's pretty much happened till now, you won't be sad if it fails, but you'll be incredibly happy and surprised if it becomes a masterpiece! On the other hand, if you have expectations, you have the chance of getting incredibly disapointed, sad and angry if it fails, and up to being somewhat happy if it's a masterpiece, since you "expected" that.

I believe this is the only way to look at hollywood productions nowadays, I have enough rollercoasters with anime adaptations from LNs/VNs and Manga.

Yes I can! In the words of Steve Jobs "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”. Japanese anime studios should make a real effort to sell their products to people beyond the hardcore base, albeit I admit the simple reality we live in is that for decades they have made no effort whatsoever to show anime to the mainstream, if there is an anime industry nowadays is thanks to the hardcore fans that subtitled and distributed their favorite animes. There is of course an inertia to break, but hey, twenty years ago people would not believe you needed to carry a computer about the size of a small purse and nowadays people can't remember how they went on their daily lives without one.

青白 wrote:

First your name and now SAO. North American media entertainment sure has gone to the S*****HIT in terms of creativity.

Japanese media is not better either. Considering Sao is a ripoff of .hack. Many shows are just rehashing the same stuff over and over again.

Okay, I get that, but we don't need a live-action adaptation of Sword Art Online. It's better for newcomers to watch the anime

(there's a dub for crying out loud, they don't have to watch it subbed!) instead of wasting millions of dollars on a live-action adaptation.

I don't care about Sword Art Online, but a live-action adaptation isn't gonna give me the incentive to check out the franchise.

1. Take the term "adaptation" very lightly. Don't attempt to adapt the main plot with the main characters. We have LNs, manga, and an anime series. We don't need anymore rehashes of the same plot. Instead, create an original plot with new characters that also happen to be stuck in SAO.

The best way to make this project fail is to try and adapt what's already been told.

Because all that will do is bring out all of the flaws of your work since it gives people something to directly compare it to.

My problem with this is that a huge majority of the story takes place in the game which would need to be animated because IT IS A VIDEO GAME AND THOSE AREN'T LIVE ACTION! Why waste time trying to make this a live action show when the story takes place in a video game world?

My problem with this is that a huge majority of the story takes place in the game which would need to be animated because IT IS A VIDEO GAME AND THOSE AREN'T LIVE ACTION! Why waste time trying to make this a live action show when the story takes place in a video game world?

GMArcturus wrote:

My problem with this is that a huge majority of the story takes place in the game which would need to be animated because IT IS A VIDEO GAME AND THOSE AREN'T LIVE ACTION! Why waste time trying to make this a live action show when the story takes place in a video game world?

There have been plenty of game worlds in live action that are also live action. I can think of eXistenZ and Spy Kids 3 off the top of my head, for instance.