AKIRA LIVE ACTION MOVIE = Life Support?

[pengbuzz]

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

All the usual suspects, I see.

Akira has hopefully been spared the fate of joining that particularly inauspicious brotherhood.

Do you think anyone here in the west has any idea of how to do a successful "live action" version of an anime? I think even One Piece  has its' issues, tbh...

[Big s]

2 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Do you think anyone here in the west has any idea of how to do a successful "live action" version of an anime? I think even One Piece  has its' issues, tbh...

I still kinda like the Ghost in the Shell movie, although that’s a bit flawed as well, and the Battle Angel Allita movie might be the best I’ve seen. I wouldn’t pick either of those over their anime adaptations though, but those are probably the best examples, although I also don’t think they were super successful at the box office.

[Thom]

1 hour ago, Big s said:

I still kinda like the Ghost in the Shell movie, although that’s a bit flawed as well, and the Battle Angel Allita movie might be the best I’ve seen. I wouldn’t pick either of those over their anime adaptations though, but those are probably the best examples, although I also don’t think they were super successful at the box office.

I haven't watch either anime originals of GitS or ABA, but I really liked both movies on their own merit. Still awaiting that sequel to Alita...

[Big s]

14 minutes ago, Thom said:

I haven't watch either anime originals of GitS or ABA, but I really liked both movies on their own merit. Still awaiting that sequel to Alita...

I’d definitely suggest the anime for alita. It’s kinda quick but unfortunately never gets too far into the story, but it looks great and you could actually do an anime watch and then the movie to get more of the story as a kind of double feature to check out the differences. The manga is great as well, but I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I’d love a sequel to the movie as well though 

[Seto Kaiba]

7 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Do you think anyone here in the west has any idea of how to do a successful "live action" version of an anime? I think even One Piece  has its' issues, tbh...

I'd argue that One Piece is proof that it is possible for there to be such thing as a western anime adaptation that respects the source material.

It's very much the exception that tests the rule that western anime adaptations are awful.  Of course, it was always going to have issues because One Piece is so incredibly weird that there were always going to have to be some significant compromises to make it work with living actors.

 

About the best we can reasonably hope for from Hollywood is something like Alita: Battle Angel which plays fast and loose with the original story in order to essentially speedrun the most iconic moments in a single two-hour span.  You only get that if there are superfans involved, though.  The far more likely fate is a western "creative" trying to give their own new interpretation of the work and turning it into a dumpster fire that proves they missed the point completely.  Akira would probably have ended up a generic sci-fi monster movie like what they did to Doom twice.

[TangledThorns]

 

 

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Akira would probably have ended up a generic sci-fi monster movie like what they did to Doom twice.

I didn’t know they ruined Doom twice. I saw a live action one a few years back that really sucked and maybe that was enough that when I hear the name Doom, I stay far away unless it’s for a video game