New Hollywood Company Acquiring Manga Remake Rights

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(This also has to do with video games so can this be mirrored into the video game thread too?)

Now here's an interesting little article.

From ANN



Yes, folks. Joust....THE FILM!

I wonder what manga they are thinking of getting.
 
This news is horrible. Horrible indeed.

Well folks start your casting now for the Death Note: American Edition. I'm still going for the casting of Zac Efron as Light since that comparison picture was too convincing so he automatically wins the role. Plus the pic was just too dang creepy.
 
Lets start off with an easy manga that can be a LAM.

-Baki the Grappler
-Bakuman
-Eyeshield 21
-Kodomo no Omocha
-Detective Conan
-rabQ (OEL Manga...Don't hate.)
-(New) Prince of Tennis
-Hajime no Ippo

I don't know, these are just random manga's that I think can be easy to pull off.
 
Talking armor with no body attached would probably freak out some people. Plus some anime shouldn't be translated into live-action like FMA.
 
I'm still under the impression that, whether we want it or not, Viz will try to get Naruto made into a live-action film if Dragon Ball does decently.

Death Note, I can seriously see happening. Really, we've seen it adapted into live-action THRICE (okay, twice, the third time just being a spin-off movie for L fangirls), and knowing how most Japanese WB films in that genre tend to get adapted at some point, it's only a matter of time.

I'd love to see how Hollywood would handle a FMA or Soul Eater adaption, but they'd probably kill it with Disney's pool of child/teen actors.

But, if anything, I stand by the comment I made a while back: ONE PIECE SHOULD NEVER BECOME A LIVE-ACTION MOVIE.
 
I disagree, one piece, if made corectly, can be made into a good movie, if they hired GOOD TALENTED ACTORS *COUGH* DRAGONBALL *COUGH*.

Fma could work, but with good actors.

Soul eater would not work well.
 
Well, I meant that it's a bit hard to make a good adaption of it, due to how long, complex, and important each arc is. You'd have to make a whole film series to do the series justice.

Though, if I had to choose any arc to adapt, I'd say Arlong would be a nice place to start, if you have a brief recap of the first few arcs at the beginning.
 
True, but if someone other than fox, decided to put a lot of money and effort into it, they could make 1 movie per arc and follow the one piece story except in movie form, using good actors, keeping to the original script as much as possible, etc, it could work out.

But I agree, one live one piece movie wouldnt work out too well, but a whole string of movies could work.
 
I think it would work FANTASTICALLY. Perfect candidate for an anime/manga adaptation. I mean, for all intents and purposes, the characters are German (or alternate reality German or whatever), so casting should be a breeze. The cost shouldn't be much of a problem, other than some special effects on the alchemy you won't need much. The plot's fairly straightforward, too; you could just adapt one from their mother's death up until Edward becomes a State Alchemist.

Admittantly, you'd probably have a downer ending what with
Nina being mutated into a weird dog thing
and all, but if you put it in the hanRAB of a good director/crew/company that respected the source material... two hours of five star film, lemme tell ya.

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Also, in the case of Death Note? Zac Efron as Light Yagami. It will happen, and, God as my witness, it should happen.
 
^^^It's scary how much he looks like L. That's a perfect choice as long as he can act the part.

Speaking of German characters, when is that live-action "Monster" film coming out?
 
To Hollywood....

Animes that can work as live action adaptions

Deathnote
Ghost In a shell
Cowboy bebeop
blood+
Akira
Street fighter
Lupin the 3rd
most sports manga
Most Romance/Romantic comidies


ANimes that cant work as live action movies...

EVERTHING ELSE! SO don't even try Hollywood, Because unlike U.S. COmics most manga/animes were never meant to be turned real!
 
Transformers is an extreme exception, deeply rooted into American nostalgia. And even then, the budget for a decent robot movie is way past even above-average budgets.
 
Hey, as long as they do the exact opposite of G-Saviour, I'm all for a Gundam adaptation.

Nothing else though. Not a single other mecha anime I can even see working out.
 
Remove Akira from that list. Special effects today are good, but I've seen nothing that can make me believe that Tetsuo-gut-baby could work in a live-action.

Besides, it's such a classic that it'd be like remaking 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Psycho- Oh wait...
 
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