Forum - View topicBattle Angel Alita: Live Action Film?
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camelot187757
 Posts: 426 Location: The Nacirema Dream (17 and counting Asuka) |
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Scouring the intricasies of the internet i came across a little article on Gamespot that bluntly stated that James Cameron probably most noted for the Terminator movies and Aliens, will be taking the helm for the movie. Personally I like all three of the Terminator movies (specially that Judgement Day boi.. he was liquid) so if anybody should be making a sci-fi movie of this kind of calibur I would say that this guy is certaintly man enough for the job.
However...(dum dum dum) We face the ever pending problem of them "Americanizing" the movie. I would much rather have them leave the title alone if they are going to change around the names and such so that way they can please the American audience because we knoooow how much they hate anything that japanese. As a side note, if they can frickin make the Passion of the Christ in friggin Hebrew, have subs throughout the entire movie and have the same audience that they are afraid is going to reject anything that isn't english or American spend $158 Million to go and see it, why can't they do they same with adapted anime films? But on to the question. Should Hollywood really be bothered making a live action movie about B.A.A.? I say if they do, keep it real and don't ruin it by changing the names to Charlie and Courtney and the areas to Chicago and stuff. Almost forgot the links http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/09/news_6120115.html And http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7877 (I haven't read this one myself) |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4517 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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See this thread. It may not be happening after all, or at least James Cameron may be doing this "Project 808"/Avatar thing first.
He just did an interview with AICN's "Quint" and didn't mention Battle Angel once. (Quint didn't even ask him about it, for some reason.) |
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jousha
 Posts: 205 Location: the floating world |
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For one, that was a major risk on Gibson's part. Secondly, I don't think it's logical to compare the Christian community to the Anime community--the former is much larger in the US. ----- I don't see a problem with Battle Angel being "Americanized." Either a movie is good or it isn't; it doesn't have to be be equeal to the manga/anime/etc. I still don't understand the "uptight"-ness behind a lot of fans not wanting to see "their" anime turned into a movie. ----- This is pretty old news, my friend. As old as, or even older than, the Live Action NG:E possibility. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4517 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Considering that the manga takes place in a fictional dystopian society in an alternate world, concerns about how a western director would portray Japanese characters are irrelevant as there are no Japanese characters to portray.
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Shi-ne
 Posts: 77 Location: Uh? |
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I heard that Mel Gibson supposedly had a hard time trying to get someone to distribute 'Passion'; Hollywood loves to change things. If 'Passion' was a studio idea, the Romans would have english accents and the Hebrews would sound American. We're still going to see some changes in B.A. Hopefully, James Cameron fights like a mother%$&& so that he's able to make the film the way he wants to.
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Keonyn
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I really don't see the problem, I mean, why is it that it's so often ignored when the anime industry does the same? The works of other cultures are often adapted to an anime title and the changes and twists are completely ignored but when the roles reverse it creates an uproar.
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