[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI"]YouTube- The American Akira (Coming 2011)[/ame]
I must be late as hell, but apparently there have been talks of a live-action AKIRA being done. After their bang up job with the Dragonball series, they've completely rattled my faith in any future adaptations.
While I can understand some stories can easily be translatable to Western market (Gundam, Cowboy Bebop), AKIRA was a phenomenal series (and the movie was pretty good, too, but pales in comparison to the huge manga) and possibly one of the worst stories to try to Americanize and not fuck it up because the foundation of the story is too deeply tied to Japanese history. Remove the impact of the WWII nuclear bombings on Japan from the plot and it loses pop. Let alone dumbing down the plot to make it 'palatable' for Western audiences (which pretty much means no worthwhile subplots that move the manga along, no depth of characters, a very condensed story with a happier ending and more explosions). Sorry to say, but the prospect of watching a two-film PG-13 epic of Kevin trek across a dystopian Neo-Manhattan to try and save his friend Travis just doesn't get me excited at this point.
They've already raped Transformers, Aeon Flux and Dragonball, And will ultimately rape Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, Death Note, and now AKIRA by 2012. The only cartoon they got right this decade is Speed Racer and SR wasn't even that fucking hard. Shockingly, I still have some hope for Avatar, but I can only imagine what they're going to do to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Motherfuckers need to learn how to read subtitles and/or leave good shit alone. Not every cartoon/anime/comic/manga series needs to be put on the big screen.
I must be late as hell, but apparently there have been talks of a live-action AKIRA being done. After their bang up job with the Dragonball series, they've completely rattled my faith in any future adaptations.
While I can understand some stories can easily be translatable to Western market (Gundam, Cowboy Bebop), AKIRA was a phenomenal series (and the movie was pretty good, too, but pales in comparison to the huge manga) and possibly one of the worst stories to try to Americanize and not fuck it up because the foundation of the story is too deeply tied to Japanese history. Remove the impact of the WWII nuclear bombings on Japan from the plot and it loses pop. Let alone dumbing down the plot to make it 'palatable' for Western audiences (which pretty much means no worthwhile subplots that move the manga along, no depth of characters, a very condensed story with a happier ending and more explosions). Sorry to say, but the prospect of watching a two-film PG-13 epic of Kevin trek across a dystopian Neo-Manhattan to try and save his friend Travis just doesn't get me excited at this point.
They've already raped Transformers, Aeon Flux and Dragonball, And will ultimately rape Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, Death Note, and now AKIRA by 2012. The only cartoon they got right this decade is Speed Racer and SR wasn't even that fucking hard. Shockingly, I still have some hope for Avatar, but I can only imagine what they're going to do to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Motherfuckers need to learn how to read subtitles and/or leave good shit alone. Not every cartoon/anime/comic/manga series needs to be put on the big screen.
