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NEWS: Mamoru Hosoda Reveals Scarlet Anime Film for Release in Winter 2025




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2BNier



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:29 am Reply with quote
Looks interesting.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:35 am Reply with quote
Sounds like Hosoda is still insistent on not getting a co-writer again, so it'll no doubt be a very pretty but ultimately middling movie.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 8:02 am Reply with quote
YackDe wrote:
Sounds like Hosoda is still insistent on not getting a co-writer again, so it'll no doubt be a very pretty but ultimately middling movie.


Meh, depends on how the story's executed. Summer Wars, Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Wolf Children are his best works I've seen; stumbled with Boy and the Beast; and feel Mirai and Belle are down a notch compared to his earlier works.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:36 am Reply with quote
I keep hoping he'll do something I enjoyed as much as Wolf Children which I consider his best film.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:13 am Reply with quote
Not sure if the film not being 2D nor 3D is an exciting or worrying news.
That would explain why all 2D Chizu people have been free all this time.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:33 am Reply with quote
Ggultra2764 wrote:
YackDe wrote:
Sounds like Hosoda is still insistent on not getting a co-writer again, so it'll no doubt be a very pretty but ultimately middling movie.


Meh, depends on how the story's executed. Summer Wars, Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Wolf Children are his best works I've seen; stumbled with Boy and the Beast; and feel Mirai and Belle are down a notch compared to his earlier works.


He didn't write The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It was an adaptation of a book
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:46 am Reply with quote
Curious about what "global classic" is being referred to here. Given what little is said about the movie and Hosoda's storytelling inclinations, the only thing I can think of that even vaguely fits is a gender-swapped take on The Little Prince.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:09 pm Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
Ggultra2764 wrote:
YackDe wrote:
Sounds like Hosoda is still insistent on not getting a co-writer again, so it'll no doubt be a very pretty but ultimately middling movie.


Meh, depends on how the story's executed. Summer Wars, Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Wolf Children are his best works I've seen; stumbled with Boy and the Beast; and feel Mirai and Belle are down a notch compared to his earlier works.


He didn't write The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It was an adaptation of a book


To be fair to both Hosoda and screenwriter Satoko Okudera, the film was more of a sequel than an adaptation of the original novel. Hosoda hasn’t had a separate screenwriter for his films starting with Boy and the Beast. Still, I enjoy Hosoda’s recent films and am looking forward to this one.

If it will be interesting to see if Sony releases the film under Crunchyroll (very likely), Sony Pictures Classics, or Columbia Pictures. While Sony occasionally sells the distribution rights of select films to another distributor for certain territories, I doubt they would sell North American rights to Toho owned GKIDS. But I won’t be surprised if GKIDS helps promote the film as they have the distribution rights to Hosoda’s previous films.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:13 pm Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
Ggultra2764 wrote:
YackDe wrote:
Sounds like Hosoda is still insistent on not getting a co-writer again, so it'll no doubt be a very pretty but ultimately middling movie.


Meh, depends on how the story's executed. Summer Wars, Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Wolf Children are his best works I've seen; stumbled with Boy and the Beast; and feel Mirai and Belle are down a notch compared to his earlier works.


He didn't write The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It was an adaptation of a book


The original novel has totally different story from the movie. The story of the original novel occurs when Kazuko Yoshiyama, the aunt who works at the museum was a student.
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