Live action Anime is coming

[Tadao]

Read this the other day in the paper at a hotel.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-05-01-speed-racer_N.htm

•Leonardo DiCaprio will produce two films based on the popular anime story Akira, set in a rebuilt Tokyo after a mysterious explosion decimated the city. The first of the Warner Bros. films, to be set in "New Manhattan," is scheduled for summer 2009.


•Director M. Night Shyamalan will direct The Last Airbender, an adaptation of the popular Asian-influenced Nickelodeon series about a young hero with the power to manipulate the elements. It's due July 2, 2010.


•Steven Spielberg will adapt Ghost in the Shell, a futuristic crime thriller based on the 1989 Japanese comic, or manga, that spawned a half-dozen films and video games. No release date has been set.

[Kybo Ren]

AAARGH!!!
URGE TO KILL RISING!!!!!!!!

[Fathom Zero]

Hahaha, I want to see Spielberg's Ghost in the Shell.

[darkvare]

di caprio likes akira? ain't he like a care bear person
i do want to see spilbergs ghost in the shell anyway

[LordSappington]

Fuck.

[Dr. V]

Don't forget Death Note

[Shrubfest]

Death note is already here...I've seen the first two already.

[executioneer]

dont forget speed racer

[Emu]

where the fuck is my fruits basket live action

[executioneer]

this whole message board is a fruits basket

[Phoenix Gamma]

Ugh. I think I'd rather CG anime movies like Appleseed Ex Machina. Some characters are just too...otherworldly to be portrayed by actual people.

Some hairstyles are too out-there as well. Lawl Goku.

Besides, they're just going to use CG for all of the effects anyways.

Ghost in Shell might be cool. Avatar is fucking stupid, though. I don't know which I hate more: Avatar or Teen Titans.

[Guitar Woman]

•Director M. Night Shyamalan will direct The Last Airbender, an adaptation of the popular Asian-influenced Nickelodeon series about a young hero with the power to manipulate the elements. It's due July 2, 2010.
lol :<

[executioneer]

i wonder what the twist will end up being :(

[Grislygus]

the twist is that the kid's white :x

just like the last samurai

[liquidstatik]

all these movies are gonna suck so hard :x

[Madface]

This is so fucked I can't even stand it. It's one thing to see Avatar be ass raped but Akira is damn good and would be done backwards if Americanized. And Ghost in the shell might turn out bearible but I seriously doubt it.

[Tadao]

Don't forget that the creators must have given Spielberg and DiCaprio the green light.

[Guitar Woman]

As long as they don't change the soundtrack, I'm cool with a live action Ghost in the Shell.

Although I don't see what's wrong with the original. :(

[Tadao]

Nothings wrong with the original other than it's not it's not making any large amounts of money right now.

[King Hadas]

I understand James Cameron (the dude responsible for the The Terminator) is planning to do a live-action Battle Angel Alita.

[liquidstatik]

Although I don't see what's wrong with the original. :(


Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊, Kōkaku Kidōtai?, translated as "Mobile Armored Riot Police") is a Japanese cyberpunk manga

:x

[Angryhydralisk]

There was also that live-action DBZ movie that was announced....and cancelled...and announced....and no doubt cancelled again.

Still, I'd watch these because something bizarre's telling me these might be somehow watchable.

[Kitsa]

I'd see Ghost in the Shell but this incarnation of Speed Racer doesn't appeal to me at all.

[Tadao]

I never like the Speed Racer cartoon when I was a kid anyways. I was too busy playing with my Shogun Warrior to care.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1273/716976295_86e7731b96.jpg

[executioneer]

i saw the speed racer movie, and i liked it about four times as much as i liked the original. (THIS IS SOMETHING I LIKE TO CALL DAMNING WITH FAINT PRAISE ;) ;) ;) ;))

second worst movie the wachowskis ever directed

[Madman914]

what was the first?

[Kybo Ren]

matrix revolutions?

it was worse than bound

[executioneer]

ding ding ding ding ding

[ElPila666]

is there any news about an upcoming pokemon live action movie?

[darkvare]

i think not but to be honest pikachu wouldn't look cute in live action (i don't get why is called live action i mean is recorded)

[Kitsa]

I've got your live-action Pikachu right here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAUXdDO_NgM).

[Kybo Ren]

guess who's gonna play team rocket's cat?

http://www.geocities.com/ssannecruise/images/pp35.jpg
http://www.stars-productions.com/AR/_come/gilbert-gottfried.jpg

and it's a suit, no cgi!

[Kitsa]

This remains the best Pokemon anything I've ever seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOyb-fqnN28

[BurntToShreds]

Why the hell can't they just get the animation studio to make the movie in a higher quality than the show? Is that too much to fucking ask?

[Dixie]

I saw a "live action" version of La Blue Girl. I cannot tell you how awesome rape is when a sock puppet is the violator.

[Pentegarn]

They are a little late on the live action anime thing. Or have we all forgotten this...

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q1/Pentegarn/speedracer-lenticular2.jpg

Of course, I know I would like to forget about it

[darkvare]

i'm going to watch meteoro tomorrow known by you as speed racer i hope is good

[executioneer]

They are a little late on the live action anime thing. Or have we all forgotten this...
Of course, I know I would like to forget about it
dont forget speed racer

i saw the speed racer movie, and i liked it about four times as much as i liked the original. (THIS IS SOMETHING I LIKE TO CALL DAMNING WITH FAINT PRAISE ;) ;) ;) ;))

second worst movie the wachowskis ever directed

>:

[executioneer]

pentegram do you have me on your ignore list >:

[Tadao]

Not only all that, but if you read the link I made it talks mostly about Speed Racer.

[executioneer]

dude has the whole INTERNET on his ignore list

edit: and i guess i ignored that link too :( whoops a daisy

[Pentegarn]

Hey, I skimmed it and dropped a quick reply because I had RL stuff to do, sorry if the concept of "real life" is foreign to you :rolleyes

I suppose I could have read more into the thread but hey, I would rather pursue more important things. The time I spend on things is valueable to me and you got exactly as much out of me as you deserved.

PS: The title of the thread is "Live action anime is coming". That good sirs, would be future tense. Implying that you assume it isn't here yet. I was answering that.

[Tadao]

Holy shit! Are you serious? I guess you want to argue so I'll oblige you.

1. I created this thread before it came out to theaters.
2. The words "Or have we all forgotten this..." implies that you have read the thread and we left out Speed Racer.

What say you Mr. Defensive?

[Pentegarn]

Hey, don't get all uppity and call me Mr Defensive, "Mr. Offensive". If you didn't want me to give a snarky defensive reply and to argue, you wouldn't have called me out in the first place.

Claerly, I was merely obliging you by giving you what you wanted.

[Tadao]

:rolleyes