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Akira movie gets director
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:55 am
by Roy Mustang
posted from an anime email group wrote:Albert Hughes, one half of the Hughes Brothers directing team responsible for films including Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, and The Book of Eli, will helm the production of at least the first of Warner Bros.' two planned live action Akira movies. New York Magazine reported in February that the Hughes Brothers were in negotiations with Warner to take the reigns of the production. Warner acquired the rights to produce an American live action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's 1982 manga in 2008.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:38 am
by Bobtheduck
Another single story comic getting turned into a movie that has no way of telling its story. Akira is too freaking long to make a single movie about and do it well, unless you're just going to make it a mind (confusing) effects fest.
You know, like the Anime was.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:42 am
by rocklobster
I thought this was scrapped.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:48 am
by Bobtheduck
rocklobster (post: 1385789) wrote:I thought this was scrapped.
No, just on hiatus. Maybe it's picking up, now.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:59 am
by ShiroiHikari
Bob is right. Squashing several volumes into 2 hours didn't work in the 1980s and it's not gonna work now.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:08 pm
by Roy Mustang
Question: could it work if they made two movies for it as part one and part two or is the comic still too long to be made into two movies.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:33 pm
by mechana2015
Roy Mustang (post: 1385819) wrote:Question: could it work if they made two movies for it as part one and part two or is the comic still too long to be made into two movies.
Col. Roy Mustang
Still wouldn't work. The Akira manga is six very thick A4 sized books (around an inch and a half each), and the animated movie really only scratched the surface of the story, just partially covering the first 2 volumes, and forcing it to jump to a small portion of the sixth book with little explanation, while still spending 2 hours on it.
My guess would be around three three hour movies to cover it decently, at minimum.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:24 pm
by rocklobster
mechana2015 (post: 1385826) wrote:
My guess would be around three three hour movies to cover it decently, at minimum.
Since when has Hollywood cared that much about authenticity?
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:37 pm
by mechana2015
rocklobster (post: 1385835) wrote:Since when has Hollywood cared that much about authenticity?
That wasn't the point of my post at all. I was positing how many movies it would take since Roy was asking whether the two movies might cover it better.
Short version of my post to Roy: Yes, the comic is too long for 2 movies.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 4:04 pm
by Yamamaya
Well this has a better chance of success than a Live Action Evangelion(which according to recent news could start up this summer).