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Apollo-kun
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I actually have confidence in this, if it comes to fruition. The guy seems to be a big enough fan, and is interested in keeping Japanese audiences happy as well. Hope it works out well!
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walw6pK4Alo
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So it's just going to be adaptation of Star Blazers? No thanks, I need my Yamato with post-war nationalistic revitalization.
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Ryu Shoji
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Is adapting Japanese manga/anime/light novels becoming the next big "thing" in Hollywood or something?
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walw6pK4Alo
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They're already running out of things to remake and they can produce only so many Superhero and YA book films a year, so probably yes. |
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Fedora-san
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Since this is about Starblazers and not Yamato, no. This is more of a nostalgia cashgrab than adapting Japanese series. If they wanted to adapt a Japanese series, they'd base it off the uncut Japanese version. This is no more adapting Japanese things than Power Rangers movie will be, or a Robotech film. |
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EricJ2
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How long has this US project been around?
I remember when it was going to be one of the two movies that Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were going to "rescue" out of development hell next, IF Godzilla '98 had been the hit that put their company on the map. And that, only after it'd been sitting around Disney for a few years before that. By my count, that's a good sixteen years, minimum. The fact that the current producers have been associated with Tom Cruise hits is likely due to "Hey, that Edge of Tomorrow thing's Japanese, isn't it?" |
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Splitter
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That and Godzilla's success is probably pushing this forward. Once again, we see Hollywood is chasing the money. |
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GATSU
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They'll find Japanese actors for this one. To die in kamikaze attacks to protect their white crewmates, of course.
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GATSU
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Meh, Harlock would work better as a live-action film. And I'd pick Tom Cruise as the lead. Make it happen, Hollywood.
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enurtsol
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Why not, it's been the thing for anime for years. Anime is becoming dearth of original ideas - it can only do so many high school and YA adaptations per year. 
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Leland Lee
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Having seen Edge of Tomorrow just last week, I can say that my skepticism in adapting Japanese properties has waned quite a bit.
If you bring the right talent and right enthusiasm towards this along with reverence, it would make for a pretty cool flick. |
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nargun
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For the purposes of a film adaption there's not a lot of difference between "yamato" and "star blazers", or perhaps it'd be better put as "the differences between 'yamato' and 'star blazers' are dwarfed by the adaptions forced by the film format". Yamato is a complex work, in that there's a lot of plot-pieces that tie to other plot-pieces: after you've cut out enough plot to get it down to film length -- films are not long -- you need to add extra plot purely as bracing to stop the entire story collapsing under its own weight. Or, look. Even edited really tightly, there's about one-and-a-half films worth of story in Yamato. Three half-films: + susumu kodai's adventures: save the world, get the girl + ensemble-cast bits-n-pieces from the rest of the yamato crew + the relationship between iskandar/Starsha and Gamilas/Desslar The ja LA ditched the last: I haven't seen the compliation movie from the original TV series but I'm guessing it ditched the second, and was also badly paced. Ditching the first would probably be cleanest, narratively -- demote Kodai to ensemble, focus on Okita, say -- but would be a hard sell to the audience. Any of these choices are far bigger than the difference between the US and japan broadcast versions. |
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Kadmos1
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This is the type of movie that would be perfect for a summer movie.
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invalidname
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I will never get why Hollywood is determined to license stuff that was popular 30 years ago instead of stuff that is popular now. I thought they wanted the youth audience, not the audience that consists of me and Mike Toole. Get on my lawn!
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Ambimunch
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If they Cowboy Bebop or Death Note Hollywood adaptations are a sign of anything, it's that there is no need to worry because this will never see the light of day
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