Worst Live-Action Adaptation Idea Ever?

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Seriously. Paprika is one of those films which was made for animation. A live-action adaptation would have to cost at least $300 million and be 98% CGI so it would essentially be an animated film anyway. What is the point in doing this?
 
STOP IT, HOLLYWOOD! They just keep coming, and the ideas keep getting worse. Why us Hollywood obsessed with anime all of a sudden? It never works, and it just pisses fans off. If they have to adapt a Satoshi Kon film, they should at least try Perfect Blue. At least that's possible.
 
I better see some japanese actors & actress.
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Anyways, 300 million dollars sounRAB to much, maybe 150 million dollars might work.
 
This is a discussion on a live action adaptation of Paprika not bad adaptations in general.

I have to paraphrase Crispin Freeman's thoughts on this matter. There is no real point making live action adaptations of anime movies. Trying to emulate artistic animation with living actors and computer rendering is ridiculous. Anyone who thinks they can animate a 3D representation of Kon's (or Miyazaki's for that matter) 2D work that is of equal quality to the original is insane.
 
I'd understand this choice if Paprika was wildly successful and/or had extra mainstream appeal. But I don't think it is.

And, out of all of Kon's films, Paprika is the least suited to live-action! ANY of his other films (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers) would have been a better choice!


Hopefully, this adaptation of Paprika falls into development hell and never sees the light of day.
 
The rights to a Perfect Blue adaptation are actually owned by Darren Arronofsky. He bought them not to remake the movie, but to remake scenes to use in Requiem for a Dream.

Millenium Actress COULD work in live-action, but feels very unlikely as I don't think anyone would be willing to spend a giant effects budget on a romantic art film.

Tokyo Godfathers is already a loose remake of John Ford's 3 Godfathers. Seeing as the major things that made Kon's film unique were the animation, the Japanese setting, and the edgier themes of teen violence and transsexuality I can't imagine any higher-up in Hollywood being particularly interested in adapting Kon's version of the story.
 
This is why i'm hoping James Cameron follows up Avatar with Battle Angel. I believe that anime adaptions of live action movies can be great. I believe that Dragon ball Evolution sucked because of a hack director, poor script and bad acting. I believe that just because one or two sucked does not mean they all will suck.

That is why I want James Cameron's live action/hybred adaption of battle Angel to be a reality. here is a director who has never directed a bad movie (Sure a couple were not great but none sucked.) who pretty much created and perfected perfected the very genra that Battle Angel fits in.

He could prove that they could be done right.

I want anime movies to be seen the same way Comic book movies are seen and not the way video game movies are seen. I want anime movies to be seen like this "They can be done good by the right people."
 
The thing with Battle Angel is that it does sound like it's essentially an animated movie. He said it'd be all mo-cap, just as the second half of Avatar will be all mo-cap.
 
I can't believe their going to make one of Paprika. The movie just came out a few years ago!
They seriously need to give anime movies a larger release, let the audience be exposed to the real deal, instead of settling for some live-action version.
 
True but I still refuse to say they will all suck just because some that we have gotten so far suck. Maybe an anime more down to Earth like Monster would work. Now it done by the right people would be a great movie.

Sorry for getting off topic. I just see myself as an optimist and this how anime live action thing is a very pessimistic subject.
 
Monster would work in live-action. The first Death Note movie was actually very good. There's a difference between those sort of down-to-earth manga which didn't really need animes in the first place and something crazier like Paprika or Akira.
 
Hollywood is confusing these days. All the live-action movies look like cartoons and all the cartoon movies look like live-action! :P

Seriously, though, some stories are better suited for 2-D animation, and Paprika is one of them. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
Good man Mr. Freeman, they need to stop making live action adaptations of anime movies. I'm opposed to live action versions of anime in general since they always take bad liberties, but on these Japanese anime films? Get serious.

Funny fact: a friend I met at Anime Evolution knows Cripsin.
 
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