Dim prospects for future live action adaptations?

Maybe yes?...Maybe no? Man, your still being judgmental aren't yea? So I didn't bash up to a level like IMDB would about this DB LAM! So I didn't cried and over REACTED like “A true fan”! So I didn't care what hollywood did to a fictional character and how it “Rape” my childhood. So what. The only time I will go nuts like these “True Fans” if hollywood mess with Bill & Ted and or Back the the future series. Then, ONLY then I will go personal at hollywood.

But in all, these are movies, I just find it funny how fans take it so personal. You can hate it, bash it, and go all bananas all over it, but up to a personal level?...Really, thats just sad.

I know I'm sounding like an “A” but this is my personal opinion. I am being little serious about these Anime LAM'S, but not in a level of life or death. I still think a U.S version of Death Note LAM will be a bad idea, but I'm not going personal at the problem if it's true. Just like the ppl that are bashing the DB LAM, “I'm just having a little fun”.

But I do find it sad hollywood looking at anime now. They really ran out of ideas. What will ppl think of movies in '00 to '10? Remakes, unoriginal, base on movies? Here's hoping '11 to '20 in films.
 
I guess it was a sort of blessing in disguise then Geena Davis dropped the idea of a live-action Sailor Moon movie.

On the other hand, a live-action Gunsmith Cats movie would had worked probably better, set in Chicago lots of car chases and action....
 
Bebop won't get made if Watanabe doesn't like the script, and he can't be as big a sell-out as Toriyama, so I retain some hope.

GitS could work and seems more likely to get made than any of the others.

Death Note might get off the ground and do OK. Monster seems doomed to stay in production hell even though it'd work in live-action (maybe not in movie form, though).

Akira is the worst idea yet for a live-action adaptation.

If the next one out the gate borabs, the rest seem likely to get canceled.
 
The idea of waiting a decade or two for some fanboy to push for a decent adaptation is laughable. Hollywood doesn't work that way. If we're lucky the right people get attached to make an adaptation work, but Hollywood isn't a dreams factory. I find it funny that Transformers is cited as an example- the screenplay writers might know their stuff and some of the effects guys are open fans, but ultimately Micheal Bay has called the shots on that and shown he's quite willing to take away the very heart of the franchise that exists in every other Transformers work. Enjoyable pop corn fodder but hardly a high class adaptation of a show.

That, as others have said, is the big problem- Hollywood is missing what makes these shows work and has gutted them for the lowest common denominator. I believe DBE was even cited as a rejected older script that they only made due to the writer's strike. I don't see anime and manga as holy and untouchable, but most of it has a clear flavour that the adaptations are missing. Taking the character of Goku and turning him into a stock American high school teenager is one such example. It takes away the charm of the original and if you're going to do that, why buy the rights at all? You're just using the name only to hopefully attract a pre-exisiting audience and really just creating a mess which can't appeal to neither them or new fans.
 
Batman at least had a period of comic stories that were campy, so in a sense, B&R was faithful to the source material. I'd say the only problems was giving it the look of a serious movie while trying to evoke the campy era.



I talked about this on the talkback for DB E, but lets look at Super Mario Bros and Double Dragon:

- Video Game Based Movies: Check
- Changed everything except the characters name from the source material: Check

And frankly, it didn't result successful movies. So while they can't do 100% adaptations, they do need to at least capture the spirit of the source material.

Using an example I keep bringing up, let's look at the 1970s The Incredible Hulk series. It was vastly different from the comics, yet successful and praised by fans of the comic. Because regardless of the differences, it keeps the pain and isolation that defines the comic Hulk.
 
Aren't we still looking for the first decent video game adaptation? Uwe Boll has made it his life's mission to make horrible game based films. I see Wong and Chatwin doing something similar for anime.
 
Didn't Mortal Korabat succeed, or was the sequel made because they had a contract to do one regardless of how well the first film did?

Anyway, I used Srab and DD because SF and MK reserabled their source material more.
 
DBE came across as like Hollywood's attempts at Judge Dredd and Mario from how many years ago?

I just felt DBE lacked the charm of the series. I'm not expecting two-foot-tall hair sticking out in every direction any more than Gandalf's eyebrows extending pass his hat brim or Wolverine wearing bright yellow. You steer away from that, design something more evocative perhaps... but unless you're going campy or "these guys are nuts"(think Watchmen)... I liked that Goku's hair stuck out the way it did. I thought Bulma was pretty well-adapted, arabitious and not particularly wholesome (would've been nice if Emmy had covered one of the OPs for the soundtrack) as befitting the age the character was in the movie. But it came down to only the barest hints of the original, which is why I'm glad I used a moviewatcher freebie pass to get in. Goku and Chichi in high school was lame. The insufferable post-credits scene... Ok, if they're going to drag along like that, it works so much better when the reveal is a new villain instead of the half-baked Pilaf-Piccolo hybrid.
 
Mortal Korabat did decently back in the day, the Resident Evil movies have at least performed well enough to generate more sequels (and Capcom apparently liked the first one enough to reference it in RE4), and Silent Hill may not have been a great movie, but damn near every fan of the series who I've talked to has remarked on how it captured the look and feel of the games - actually, having seen it, its biggest failing was probably that it tried too hard to be like the source material.
 
Regardless of what Capcom thinks, the RE movies suck and have none of the goodness of the games. Not to mention they ruined Wesker. The characters were annoying fodder.

King, I don't think you have a leg to stand on in criticizing fans when you yourself are posting on an animation enthusiasts message board.
 
That's what you think, But I think “Why not?”. Why hate on me kid-O, why hate the king? It's a thread that's talks about Anime LAMs, some say Nay, and some say Yea! And I'm just joining in just for the fun of it. No one thinks alike. Is there a rule I have to think like you?
So far the Big-Bad U.S only mess with 3 Anime series, not a big lost. As for the other Anime LAM's that's coming out...No worry. Cowboy Bebop! (Happy day, Happy day, Happy Day)

Oh, Full Metal Panic is becoming a LAM? I thought ppl were messing around.
 
Frankly I think the biggest problem here is Holywood missed the boat.

The DBZ adaptation is the biggest example. TPTB screwed around with movie conceptualization for FAR too long. The ORIGINAL DBZ movie promo was announced in what? 2001? Now its 2009 and the movie just came out.

I tend to think if Holywood would have explored this territory closer to when the given franchise was in it's boom, they may have gotten people to produce the given projects who were more passionate about the project and fans who would have been more into the project.

Holywood missed the main popularity of DBZ by about 6 years. They PROBABLY just missed the popular cusp of Naruto and Bleach in the US by about a year. Its probably true to say the titles are already too stale.
 
But it was still Fox who had the rights. They ruin almost everything.

They ruined Fantastic Four and killed that movie franchise. It could've been so great.
 
No, but disagreements can actually be voiced in a civil manner, contrary to what you might believe. And dismissing all complaints as fanboys rarabling is an exercise in incivility.
 
Find-Find, don't get all "in-tel-igen-tes" at me. But I don't have to agree every inch what everyone else are saying. People right now are thinking a U.S version of Death Note LAM will be a good idea, but I still say no. Can I do that!?
I just don't want to go all personal at something like this!
 
No, but you have to voice your disagreement in a civil manner.



If you can take any Back To The Future or Bill & Ted mishandlings personally, then anime fans should be allowed to take LA Anime Movies personally.
 
What do you mean by whatever? What's the difference between balking at messing up BTTF and those who balk at DBZ's adaptation?
 
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