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NEWS: Live-Action Attack on Titan Films' Eren, Mikasa, 11 Others Unveiled in Costume

but I don't think Attack on Titan has enough name recognition in the US to merit at least a superficially faithful adaptation, like Watchmen, which was a boxoffice disappointment anyway. And don't tell me it would work as a PG-13 movie.

mdo7: You clearly didn't read my whole post. R rating and big budget rarely go together, even with movies, which have much bigger brand recognition than Attack on Titan or even Marvel comics. Even Spawn, which had a relatively low budget, had to tone down the gore from the comics.

Please don't use the live-action Spawn as your evidence that movie is from 1997, that was a different time. If there was a reboot of Spawn, then there would be a lot of gore.

Then I'll use Watchmen, which was a financial disappointment. The Expendables movies don't quite have the budgets needed to compete with blockbuster super hero movies. The budget needed for Hollywood Attack on Titan would be closer to The Avengers and at that point you can kiss goodbye to the gore.

The Avenger's Total Lifetime Grosses:
Domestic: $623,357,910 41.0%
+ Foreign: $895,237,000 59.0%

Yeah these live-action movies from Japan are horrendous. Last ones I saw that were barely passable was 20th Century Boys.

Ryo Hazuki wrote:

Then I'll use Watchmen, which was a financial disappointment. The Expendables movies don't quite have the budgets needed to compete with blockbuster super hero movies. The budget needed for Hollywood Attack on Titan would be closer to The Avengers and at that point you can kiss goodbye to the gore.

Uh, last time I check, The Watchman was not a financial flop. The budget for that film was 130 million dollars, it already made $185,258,983 total although it did made about $107,509,799 in the US.

Also a Hollywood adaptation of Attack on Titan will not only be shown in US but also around the world including Japan, so the Hollywood live-action adaptation could make a lot of money by using foreign market, not only US market.

I wrote:

Uh, last time I check, The Watchman was not a financial flop. The budget for that film was 130 million dollars, it already made $185,258,983 total although it did made about $107,509,799 in the US.

That means it was. A film needs to make 3 times the cost of production to make a profit. Only 40-50% of the gross of a film goes to studios, most of it stays in the theaters, then the studio has production and promotion costs. A blockbuster film promotional campaign costs tens of millions of dollars, so Watchmen had 130 million dollars of production cost plus around 50 million dollars of promotional costs, totaling 180 million dollars so it had to gross around 400 million dollars to make up for the cost, less than that is a flop.

I wrote:

Also a Hollywood adaptation of Attack on Titan will not only be shown in US but also around the world including Japan, so the Hollywood live-action adaptation could make a lot of money by using foreign market, not only US market.

Attack on Titan is really popular in Japan, maybe some other parts in East Asia only. An Asian cast would attract more that public than a Caucasian cast.

Overall, Japanese film studios might try to adapt their films to the growing Chinese market, which will surpass the US's market size in a few years. (there are already 30 movies making more than 50 million dollars in China in 2014, in the US they are 53 movies). China's market is big enough to actually sustain a film industry that can compete with Hollywood in special effects and other technical terms.

MechaGolem wrote:

For those who love anime but apparently can't tolerate Japan's live-action films I know I've undoubtedly made things all that much worse for you. But for those of us who enjoy (or maybe even prefer) tokusatsu to anime this all sounds amazing!

Well to be honest, when it comes to Japanese films, they can't really hold candle to Hollywood films or other Asian cinema (ie: South Korea, Mainland China), so that's why I'm not sure how Attack on Titan live-action will look. If you seen the live-action adaptation of Lupin the 3rd, and Kiki's delivery service. They didn't look good in the end.

Most south korean movies are barely watchable. hongkong movies are better.