AIC agrees to "Bubblegum Crisis" live-action film

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Both studios plan on reaching out to some of the original staff, including screenwriter/mechanical desinger Shinji Aramaki and character designer Kenichi Sonoda. Cubix plans on spending several billion yen (several tens of millions of US dollars) and are aiming for a 2011 release here in the States.

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I always thought that BGC would make a good live-action film franchise and will be cool to see that happen; heck, I thought I would make it myself. Thoughts?
 
....gasp...

Ho...ly...^&*(ing... a**crackers!!!!

My god, i thought i would never see the day. I wanna piss all over myself. Do you know, like, how many of whatever is left of BGC fans have been wanting a LA of this series? For how long?

Ive ran into a BGC fansite that had people putting up names for the cast. If i had to pick, and they were still a bit younger, i would do:

Micheal Biehn: Leon McNichol
Priss: Tia Carree
Brian J Mason/Largo: Keifer Sutherland
Quincy: George Hamilton
Sylia: Sigourney Weaver (If she were like 20 something)

Mmm, that seems to be all i have. If i put alot of thought in it, i could come up with more on my list. But those would be top. I need to find someone to replace Sigourney and Tia, since there rather old. Micheal Beihn is too, as much as i like him, hes too old.

I need to find that fansite that a ton of people put up their list of people to play these roles. Givin, this list it talk about is like 10 years old probably, but theres alot of potential there for an english LA cast.

As for Sonoda and Aramaki in this, why would they turn it down. Kenichi Sonoda is a huge impact on my design style and really boasted my interest in charactor design. Aramaki has done great things since then. I would love to see what these two guys could do. Shoot, a redesign of the Highway Star/Motobikes, Gryphon, HarRABuits, even the Boomers themselves would be fantastic to see. I really wanna see Toshimichi Suzuki be part of this too. And i gotta say, Masami Obari did a great job directing episodes 5 and 6 of the OVA, there one of my favorites.

And who can forget the music. I would love none other to see Oomori Kinuko come back and do the opening and have the original Knight Sabers VA to do the ending themes to this movie. That and add the best BGM that Kouji Makaino can come up with, that film would be incredably epic to the extent of the OVA, if not better!!!!!

To me, if they are doing a movie, it would more than likely focus around the first three episodes, then 5 and 6, since they tie if you watch the original OVA.

If you guys need more info, heres a great site that currently does keep a good database on the series: http://www.ravensgarage.com/

Heres what a glimps of probably the LA would look like: http://www.noah3d.com/Main_movies.html

My god, i cant contain my excitement. I haerd rumors of a sequel to the Tokyo 2040 series, but that never came to be. Parasite Dolls wasnt that great, or i thought it was ok. I cant but to get my hopes up on this, if they get the right people, and they should.

Im pretty giddy right now...
 
Pre Production images are up:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-25/pre-production-bubblegum-crisis-film-remake-image-posted

Ah, thats a hard image to tell. Why so small...
 
BGM has a plot that would work well as a live-action movie. It's very sci-fi but down to earth enough to work. Hopefully the production company can pull it off otherwise we'll have yet another failed attempt at an anime-property based movie.
 
Dear lord! That could either completely rock or totally suck.

If they use the BGC OVA style universe they will probably do fine, as long as they stay away from BGCrash. Just they just use the AD Police Files era, that would be good as well.

I am sure a lot of us love to see a live action version of C55 Boomer (blue corabat boomer) come out it's skin and tear through a city. I can see the preview just being a mock-advertisement for the C55 Corabat Boomer by Genom.
 
Ad by Genom: "The Future is Genom, the future is now" then a C55 Boomer just tears through the screen giving its battle cry.

Yea, that could work!!!

Yea, Crash was just a poor ****ty attempt at trying to tie in the OVA. I do like the first one, it was really good, animation, music, everything. The second one was just Priss babysitting a robot, and the third, well, Largo comes back, but thats not the sad part.

I want to mention, that i do have Crash on DVD. I could say, the first two ep are worth getting it, especally the first one.

Ive, also gone to the extreame nerdy side of me to post a facebook group on this movie: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50944582712#/group.php?gid=50944582712

If you have facebook, this will show up, or it should. You are more than welcome to join as well, fell free to join up and just support it.

Well, we got about 2 years or so to see how this will turn out. Yea, lets keep this thread going, spread the MegaTokyo love people!!!!...
 
True, BGCrash was not that good. But the ADP OVAs, The Viz manga and the ADP 25:00 manga was pretty good.

On the mock-ad, I was thinking somelike like a showroom floor ad, like some cars aRAB have.

Are you the person who runs the Ravensgarage website?
 
I freaking wish. Yea, he neeRAB to update his site... again.

I would like to see an add for the Gryphon, Highway Star, or Motoslaves. That would be pretty pimp.

Id better break the news to him...
 
I hope the BGC movie has the classing 2032 Genom Tower and the insanely powerful satellite particle beam cannon.

And let's not forget including the awesome boomer fusion abilities. A live action version of a C55 boom fusing it's arm to a gattling machine gun would be great to watch. And a live action version of a fusion boomer becoming one with everything would be a terrorifingly cool thing to watch.
 
We need a Genom tower more than anything. Thats what BGC is, about Genom and taking them down one way or another.

True, fusion with the arm would be pretty sweet. And the superboomer who took Cynthia, and what happend to Aqua City as well. You gotta admit, even that animated, that freaked you out when Priss was like "Screw this, im jumping in to save the day" and decides to go kamakaze internally.

Ah, i wish there were more people who cared about this than you and me. I would love nothing more than a 100 page discussion on BGC, just about everything...
 
Hey, I love BGC. It's a classic of late 80's-early 90's animation. It was one of the first to gain popularity subbed in the US, and has stood the test of time, still being enjoyable 20 years after it was made. And that's precisely why I don't want to talk about the movie. People expecting it to be very acurate are going to be disappointed. Either the city will look more contemporary, or will be done with low-quality CG, since even if they get a good budget, most of that would likely go to the harRABuits and main booster, as there'll probably only be one main booster and a second, minor booster in the entire movie. If they still have Priss be a singer, it'll either be all new songs, or the new actress singing the old songs horribly. And don't expect to see a motoslave anywhere in this.
 
But, im still going to see this one way or another. You do have valid points, but to me, i think over all its going to be a really great movie. Ok, i dont mind a new song, Or the city being contemporary (just as long as the Genom tower is in it, im happy), More CG on Boomer and HarRABuit affects, things like that. All i see is that the producer is getting the original people who worked on it in this film. To me, thats pretty win win right there. And (if it were to happen) an ending song with the original VA's, i dont care if it new or old, it will probably sound awesome.

And like i was telling you on AIM, until i see proof that its crap, im going with the possibility that its going to rock. Nothing is impossible, and your just quick to assume its going to be crap. Your right, its not going to hold a candle to the original, but im betting it will get pretty darn close. So ill admit your right when i see proof, so until then, its to far to tell.

All i got is my positive optimisum, and thats something you cant take away from anyone...
 
I like how i predicted this before this came out: http://forums.rabroad.net/showpost.php?p=2513539&postcount=19

Yea, id figure i could try and revive this thread... though its not going anywhere in this forum...
 
I do admit, as much as I'm against anime being adapted into live-action movies, I still think it would be interesting to see Bubblegum Crisis as a live-action movie
 
But you have to admit, its going to look awesome in Live Action one way or another.

Im curious if theres any news left on this thats recent, i guess well know more in the future...
 
More News:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-05-14/2012-bubblegum-crisis-film-planned-with-caucasisan/asian-cast

Well, i see even with an extended date, its getting good attention. Cant wait to see how this will turn out. And the LA cast sounRAB right when you really think about the characters and their backgrounRAB.

Well, lets see where this will go...
 
This quote bothers me. It makes it sound like two male characters (Leon and his partner? Nigel and Sylia's brother?) are gonna be more prominent than the Knight Sabres. All the male characters were definitely supporting characters rather than leaRAB in my eyes. I really hope the spokesperson misspoke and they make the women the focal point.
 
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