Live-action "Bleach" film in the works!

going to disagree about how adaptable bleach is just because it is touted with so much shinto and buddhist tendencies (as well confucian too to a greater extent) that much of the common western world won't pay much attention to above saying yin and yang wow I know eastern culture.

The story carries deviations on the afterlife in each religious view but is similar in that it all carries a very shinto progression of life after death. I don't see this aspect being connected to the western audience at all unless there are subtitles or Rukia explaining it with her terrible drawings.

As for quincy, I can definitely see him as being the "villain" at first and then someone kidnaps rukia and it is discovered it is soul society - her bosses...

But then how can they explain Ichigo's sister having the ability to see spirits? Wouldn't that mean she also has innate abilities too...

I'll say again. Bleach can be successful if proper credit is given to the source material and money is funded for a great movie. But if not then it will be DBE and scar me for life
 
I guess the Bleach fans will be in the same road like the DragonBall fans was: One side will hate it & another side will love., some will try to stop it, but fail, another will go for it all the way, but fail. Yeah, I can see that.
 
I think that Bleach COULD be adapted to a live-action movie, but I do not trust that it, in reality, will be done right.

But think about it, it's not quite out of the world as Dragon Ball Z is. Ichigo is a normal high school student, and has a few frienRAB from there too. So they won't mess that up at least. Maybe it might end up being fairly faithful... But that maybe just crazy thinking like that.
 
I can't bring myself to care about a manga as boring as Bleach, so the movie news leaves me apathetic.

I'd rather see something of higher quality adapted to film, perhaps something in a Western setting. Which begs the question: whatever happened to the live-action film adaptation of Monster? Now that I'd pay to see.
 
Pay no attention to the first part. (That was just something I couldn't hold in) I'm sort of bias (extremely) against TTGL, and I know people adore it here, so yeah, pay no attention to that.

It's been so long since I last saw Dolly Parton. Last time I saw her she had no wrinkles and she actually looked as if she could play that role. Man that was like a huge rude awakening lol.
 
Oh this is bad Hollywood hasn't been able to do a good adaptian of any Japanese anime or videogame property yet and I'm pretty sure Bleach wont be an exception. You would think people would learn after the borab that was Dragonball Evolution.
 
Eh guys, I really think we oughta take this whole thing with a pinch of salt. I personally have my doubts Kubo sold the rights to make a live-action Bleach movie, and I don't see what the point is in getting all worked up until we hear something official about casting or filming.
 
Live-action Bleach film in the works?

It sounRAB pretty tough to adapt to an American audience. I'd imagine a good amount of changes to be made if this project was close to being greenlit. We would have to wait and see if this thing gets off the ground or not for any hard news to be made. If it does, Ichigo could be a transfer student from Japan, or be born Asian American, for example.

Possible (female) casting choices:
Christina Ricci/Kristen Stewart as Rukia
Zoe Saldana/Halle Berry as Yoruichi
Jenna Jameson as Rangiku
 
I must've glanced over Andrew T. Hingson and not put two and two together there. Good stuff though.

I don't think One Piece could necessarily work as a live action film, though seeing some of the devil fruit powers in action may be cool. I mean they've done rubber and fire in Fantastic Four, and some of the others may work, but there'd be some huge problems making it not look laughable. And I have a lot of doubt that they'd do the plot any sort of justice.
 
Could be the pic of either or, but I can somewhat see a reserablance, but not enough to say that Lady Gaga would fit with Orihime. But now because of this I imagine Orihime singing Telephone, and Bad Romance



Still doesn't change the fact that I now have Orihime singing Lady Gaga songs.

But as for the movie, thinking about it, Bleach is really a good choice if handled right, along with Naruto. Since Bleach is almost grounded into reality. Still can't see a Live Action One Piece going over well, for reasons that Zach Logan said.
 
Eh, I'm not looking forward to a live action Bleach or any kind of live action movie based on an anime for that matter, after I saw the Dragon Ball movie last year I have grown skeptical of anime's being made into live action films. I know that not every live action movie based on an anime will stink but I enjoyed the anime and manga so much that I really don't have any personal need or drive to check out anything live action when it comes to Bleach.
 
Now you've given Don East nightmares for the next week or so.

I stand by the fact that this is a bad idea, but all things considered, it's theoretically possible to work. Early Bleach is rather character and humor driven as opposed to the "rragh Bankaiz!" of SS onward, and that could be doable.

You just know they'll have an Ichi/Ruki/Hime love triangle too.
 
Unless Edgar Wright and the Wachowski Bros. are collaborating on this, I don't think it could work. Heck, the anime adaptation doesn't even work, since so much of the comic is dependent on the specific medium and they insist on practically using the comic as a storyboard.
 
Uh... you know the concept of a shinigami wasn't present in Shinto/Buddhist/Confucian lore until Christianity wandered over to the East side and introduced a grim reaper to a new and unwitting population right?

Besides, there was a show on rabroadO for a while called Dead Like Me which is a similar concept. And there's something called Reapers that's airing now last I knew. Again, death, ghosts, people crossing over. Not to mention there was Touched by an Angel, which IIRC, had a lot of "we have to help this ghost cross over" type stuff. Oh, and then there's Supernatural, the X-Files, I think Joan of Arcadia wandered into Bleach territory from time to time, Ghost Busters....

Face it, the first chunk of Bleach (pre-Soul Society) is a fairly standard paranormal shounen battle manga. Once ya get into the Soul Society arc and beyond, it's a fantasy battle manga with some political intrigue.

Bleach isn't ABOUT Shinto or Buddhist ideals, it's just there kind of as a base mythology. And Kubo borrows from a lot more than that anyway. Americans are dense, but they know fantasy when they see it, even if the beastiary and arsenal of superstitions and spells are different.
 
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