// March 30th, 2009 // 11 Comments » // AniManga, Anime, Fandom, Informative, Movies, Rants, Reviews
I decided that the combined website I was planning to do with my sister will not ever be complete. There are good reasons for this but the biggest one of all is the fact that I can’t ever get my sister to do something even when she said she wanted to. Sigh. LOL
So, I’m going to start posting some of the rants on my personal blog here that I had planned for Rantisim.
Hollywood is going anime! This is exciting and scary at the same time. How will all these anime titles handle being made into live action movies for the main stream masses? We won’t truly know until a good number of planned movies actually make it to the big screen.
My personal opinion on this matter is, go for it Hollywood, just don’t botch it up too bad. I would love to see my favorite shows come to life with real people. I’m not going to be hoping for them to be exactly the same though. If they can’t even make movies from books right I don’t have that much hope for anime. It is a plus that a lot of these directors and such happen to be fans, themselves, of the series so they are doing their best to keep them to the original works. I’m just going to try and like them for what they are in the long run.
So far there has been Speed Racer, a movie I have yet to see even though it has one of my favorite Korean Artists in it, and Transformers, which turned out to be a lot more fun to watch than I expected.
But there is a list of anime titles that are in the making of becoming a live action movie such as…
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Cowboy Bebop
Akira
Ghost in a Shell
Dragon Ball
Ninja Scroll
This list just keeps growing. I remember when it was just Neon Genesis Evangelion. Sadly, that one is taking the longest to get any work done.
The Dragon Ball movie is coming out pretty soon. I’m not a huge Dragon Ball fan but I think I will have to see it, just because. I’m a little bit afraid of the guy they got to play Goku because I thought his acting was weak so far, but it might have just been the movie I saw him in that wasn’t good. I can’t decide if I will watch this one in theatre or wait for it to come out to rent. I guess it depends on my mood and what kind of time I have.
Fox (film producer Erwin Stoff (The Matrix, A Scanner Darkly)) is picking up the Cowboy Bebop movies, and it is rumored that Keanu Reeves is going to play Spike, especially since they said he will be getting a lead role. I’m iffy on that, I guess the choice could be a whole lot worse though. I just hope he doesn’t make Spike boring, cause that would be a real shame. A lot of people see Spike as being unemotional, but I see him as being a bit of a goof. Is that strange of me?
The good thing is that they intend to remain faithful to the original as much as possible. They will even be working with some of the original creators such as Sunrise President Kenji Uchida, and original Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe. For more information about it, check out Anime News Network.
Akira is another one that is coming to the big screen pretty soon. It is aiming to have it’s first release by the summer of 2009. Warner Bros has decided to split this movie up into two separate ones and will have it follow the manga more than the original anime movie. And yes, it is going to be done by the production company owned by Leonardo Dicaprio. Who would have thought he was an otaku? heh.
Besides, Akira, it is said he has gotten the rights to making a live action for Ninja Scroll. So far there is not more to be said about it. I think we should see how Ninja Assassin does before they try this ultra gory anime.
Ghost in a Shell is going to be taken on by Steven Speilberg, being a fan of the anime, and dreamworks. Most complaints is the fear of it being dumbed down for the masses, but that is to be expected. I fear that a lot more for Neon Genesis Evangelion.
And last, but not least, the Neon Genesis Evangelion movie. This live action movie has been talked about since 2004 and was originally slated to be out by 2007, but it is now unknown as to when it will ever come out. However, it is still being worked on and has even started the very basics of production. Unfortunalty they have been keeping secret about a lot of it, such as the director in choice and so on so forth. Weta Workshop will be working on the CG for this movie, which is a good sign. From what I can see, the sketches seem promising. It is good that they are keeping them with a more organic feel than a robotic one, since the Evas or more monsters than machine. To keep up with the most recent info on this production of this movie, it is best to check out Live Action Evangelion.
So what do you think? Scared? Excited? Both? Also, what would you like to see next on this list?
I finally got around to watching the first Evangelion Rebuild movie. I have always been a big fan of NGE so I was excited to learn about the rebuilds.
