"Akira gets the live action treatment" Topic

with Leo DiCaprio. Can't wait.

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I was about to say "what for?" since the anime version is pretty definitive, but I guess having a definitive film version never stopped Hollywood before.

DiCaprio? Ugh.

DiCaprio is a pretty good actor. He has been fantastic in almost anything (bar Titanic) that I have ever seen him in.

I don't understand people's aversion to him.

At any rate this will be interesting at the very least. I'm not sure how they will fig DiCaprio into the story, I don't really remember any westerners in it. Maybe I'll try to watch it this weekend.

Reading the announcement, it doesn't say Leo will be in it. It says he's producing.

Plus, it'll be set in Manhattan, not Tokyo.

This is an unmitigated act of shullbittery. And how typically American – just like that travesty of an attempt to remake Godzilla, the Yankee attitude that there is nothing and nowhere of signifigance beyond the US of A is continuing to dominate within their film industry. Why reset Akira to NY?!?!? I'm starting to think the US film industry thinks so little of their own audience that they assume them to be ignorant of other nations. I presume Kanada will be recast as a wise-cracking African-American, who survives, saves the city, and gets the girl at the end. For your own sake Hollywood – create ORIGINAL material, and film it! Please!! (Goes off to sob in the corner…)
Rant over, you can come out now :)

No, I'm over there in the corner with you, MacrossMartin :(

I don't think that setting American films in America is a bad idea. It makes sense that they would set most films in an environment that their audience can better relate to.

After all their goal is to make money, not make anime fans happy.

Do they even relate to the environment in these movies? Just a bunch of explosions that could be set in your backyard.

Damn you Hollywood!

You've gone too far and reduced two grown men to tears!

Now it's payback!

From the makers of There's Something about Harry VIII and Anadem of the State comes this Summer's epic Executive Games…

"They can take our money, but they can never silence our razzes!"

Recall what Mel Gibson did with that flag in Patriot Games? I do same the same thing, but with a bagel, to a studio exec..

while Akira was remarkable for the time it came out, today it just doesnt hold up. I thought it was alright, but I think there are alot of anime out there that blows it out of the water. Heck I would rather see a movie based on Trinity Blood, Father Able would make a great character for the right actor.

I also dont see that it really matters whether it takes place in New Tokoyo or New Manhattan. It is the story behind it that matters. Give me a decent story and I will go see it. I actually get tired of Hollywood movies that include nothing but chases and explosions. I prefer a movie with more then 100 words spoken in 90 minutes.

As Pictor stated and most here on TMP and fandom of all types seem to not ever remember that it is Show BUSINESS. i.e. we want to make tons of money by getting the teen to young adult male to spend his money seeing something KULE. Or at least something he will think is cool but at a later age when he is more interested in saving his money and not blowing it on dreck will realize was..well drek.

Akira was landmark both as a comic and a film. The comic of course because it had time to develop the story was a better endevor. The animie film made a good attempt at catching the flavor of the book but just could not reach the comics scope.

The anime made better use of music than any anime prior or contemporary, and is still a sterling example of the proper use of score/soundtrack today.

Just wait, MacrossMartin…

Word has it that Tobey Maguire either has or is trying to purchase the rights to a live action Robotech/Macross. Not sure which, or who will sell him said rights, or what swarm of lawyers will descend if this does happen, but hay. If you can deal with Peter Parker as Rick Hunter (which I can, so long as he ain't playin' Folker) we just might get live action VF-1s.

"who survives, saves the city, and gets the girl at the end"

Well he doesn't save the city but the other two are spot on…

So I heard, Utini. I can handle that, and probably only because I knew the series as Robotech before I knew it as Macross. Therefore: Rick Hunter before Hikaru Ichijo. However, for me, the only real issue will be who they get to play Lisa Hayes / Misa Hayase. She will need to be perfect to play the perfect woman. (Stop that laughing in the back there!!)

while Akira was remarkable for the time it came out, today it just doesn't hold up.

I agree.

Movie version? Yawn. It will bomb.

American film studios have been making movies out of cartoons for decades. Why haven't Japanese film makers done the same? Maybe it's because they'd mistake "Akira" for an autobiography…

I'm sure there's plenty of remakes of Disney's Cinderella and Snow White made by Japanese AV studios…

I wouldn't mind seeing a live action Bubblegum Crisis movie as long as it had a good budget and not a "sci fi chanel movie of the week" .

Son of Irrationality reporting…making AKIRA into a live action opus will, through some method or another be made accessible and (maybe) accepted by uncomplicated American cinema viewers. But it's just going to become a whole 'nother extended Star Wars grand cavalcade of mundane performances, overuse of computer animation, incomprehensibly stupid characters, and attempted witty dialogue. It will forget/ignore all of the magic of the original, which made it the memorable masterpiece that we know it as; causing mass hysteria, deluges of weeping, and over-crowded hiding corners.