Akira Hollywood Rape Uncancelled
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 9, 2009 04:26 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Akira, Cancellations, Hollywood, Katsuhiro Otomo, Warner Brothers
A Hollywood theatrical adaptation of classic manga/anime Akira was previously thought to be safely cancelled, but now it appears Warner Brothers has reanimated the project, and it is set to shamble forth from the grave, for release in 2011, with a sequel already on the cards…
The source froths enthusiastically about the impending disaster:
According to my source, screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, guys whose work I like, are about to turn in their version of an “Akira” movie and the reason why the project has been so quiet is they’ve been hard at work trying to get the script right.
For those that aren’t familiar with their work, they wrote the amazing adaptation of “Children of Men” and they’re also credited with “Iron Man” (although a lot of that movie was written on the set). But my point still stands that I like their work and I’m happy they’re taking a crack at it.
Also, while I couldn’t get a lot of info about what changes are being made from the anime to make the feature film work, I did confirm the story is still set in post-apocalyptic Manhattan in the near future. I also confirmed the famous motorcycle is definitely a part of the film, but that bit of info shouldn’t surprise anyone.
From what I could gather, the movie is still a priority for the studio, and if the script meets with approval from key people, the movie could go into production in 2010 with a release date in 2011. Also, this isn’t going to be some mid-range budget movie. If the film goes into production, it’s going to be one of those BIG event movies.
Of course, everything I just wrote is based on a lot of factors, but that’s where the project currently stands. Anyone hoping for an “Akira” live-action movie should cross their fingers that Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby’s screenplay is great and everyone involved gets excited. I’ll have more on this story as I hear it.
Lest you forget, this is set to be a Dragonball-esque Hollywood star vehicle (Leonardo DiCaprio was rumoured to be involved), now set in New Manhattan and looking set to dispense with every aspect of the original, save its big red bikes and gang violence.
With the chances of a character called “Akira” even appearing in the feature looking slim, it seems obvious the only objective of the project is the usual ferocious cash-in of the kind of quality IP Hollywood so desperately lacks…
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they just dont fucking learn n quit do they?
TETSUOOOOOO~~~
ahhh ffs, this is going to be another piece of shit, just like "dragon ball evolution".
Fucking BS this is, end of discussion...
double facepalm...
This is so fucking disgusting.
Please forgive them, they are just simple minded animals...
Interesting to read that the live action film is supposed to be adapted into 2 films from the manga (each covering 3 volumes) rather than the anime. So we could be looking at the first movie adaptation of the FULL manga story. Which certainly sounds interesting at least.
It'll still SUCK though.
fap fap fap ?
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Another great anime is going to be destroyed by the demon called Hollywood
not facepalm.OoO
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Tetsuo will come to the studio and eradicate them
There's always those morons who'll eat anything hollywood poops out. That Dragonball movie for example.
.. shall i laugh?
Its not like this could EVER surpass the Anime Version.
Now whats next?
Keanu Reeves = Kaneda?
my avatar hiding facepalm
It isn't Kaneda, it's Canada, and Tetsuro is now Jim-bob.
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Just have a massive petition from actual fans and send it to the director.
it could be good. just have to wait and see. just for the love of god, dont have some old ass man like leonardo dicaprio play a teenager.
facepalm.asdf
And yes. Guess who this is, considering it isn't the person you guessed first.
People here seems to enjoy rape so much, what's the problem with THIS particular "rape"? Don't like it? Don't see it! Freedom of speech, remember? They are free to fuck up whatever anime they want!
Freedom of speech indeed. We are free to bitch about this particular kind of "rape" all we want.
Quote Anon:
I bet you ten to one that Kaneda gets renamed to Akira over here so people don't complain the title role doesn't get enough screen time.
You actually believe they're going to keep the original Japanese names?
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Fist of the North Star. Dragonball Z. Also, video game movies suck because the adaptors don't take them seriously even though pretty much everyone under 30 has now grown up playing them. What do you expect for something like anime that has settled down from the boom into a largely kids' niche over here?
I bet you ten to one that Kaneda gets renamed to Akira over here so people don't complain the title role doesn't get enough screen time.
Hehe...
It'll be good, real good...
As in fucking it up real good. XD
P.s.
If Facepalm > 9000 Then
Print "Give hollywood a finger."
End If
After Speed Racer I knew this was going to happen.
If it was cancelled, they had a good reason to do that. It'll be like Dragonball Evolution all over again if they keep this up. Live-action movies based off of anime do NOT a good blockbuster make.
History's repeating itself, that's for sure.
New Manhattan.....to me, AKIRA was and is inherently Japanese. Even though there is little information about the title. It looks like it's on track to be "molded" (butchered), by Hollywood and spoonfed to an audience it sees would be too uncomfortable with something "different," from the usual "hero saves the day" fare.
How much do you want to bet the famous last line of the movie is completely and totally lost in this remake?
I found this right after I posted the above comment. It has massive spoilers, but is very thought provoking.
http://www.geocities.com/catchmyhead/Crazy29.htm
It'd be a faceboom
give me the bike, cancel the show... all "is" happy
Excellent news. I cannot express my glee over this as I have never thought of Akira as anything special. I hope that some day I can to the dismay of other people start talking about the movie adaption everytime someone is being frothmouthed about manga/anime which has passed its best by date ages ago.
trollface
They may as well call it Dragon Ball 2...
Oh, Sankaku, you never fail in making an ass out of yourself.
It's a conspirancy, I tell ya!!
C'mon Hollywood! You don't mess with Anime classics. Go make a live-action Rosario to Vampire while you're having Anime raep rage.
The guys in charge of Children Of Men? Oh man, this'll be at least decent. Although I doubt any of the fucking retards in here have even watched Children of Men.
WTF is up with this website and rape? Everything is about rape. Why with the raping of everything. >.>
If hhollywood will not Americanized it and made the essence and the story intact, it wont be fail
But If they made alterations that made the movie looked sick... well blame hollywood
GOMU GMOU NO FACEPALM!!!!
meh...Children of Men wasn't bad, but from what they said of the setting (New Manhattan)....just, ugh.
Nappa: Vegeta? what's the scouter say about the internets reaction to the live action akira?..
Vegeta: It's over nine thousand face palms!!!!!!!111
Nappa: What nine thousand face palms? *shoots self*
Vegeta: uhh.. nappa? "..." DAMN YOU HOLLYWOOD!!!
Why can't people make their own movies?
DON'T DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!
They really like to do crappy films.
Hollywood hates Japan.
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america always ruin stuff, cmon, fail, lets move on and BOMB AMERICA HELL YE
no fuck you, faggot
They should bomb america,its the gayest country
i like The Children of Men though it's not succesful on the mainstream.Please no to Hollywood-esque Akira.Just leave it be.
Meh, like the anime version could ever surpase the manga ;)
By your logic, that shouldn't have been made either ^^
Really the point is, that with true commitment to the original and with enough funding, it could be excellent. However Hollywood is all about cheap, quick and americanized, which give the rightful impression that this'll be another major cock-up :(
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Uncanceled!?
That's like UNFUCKINGPOSSIBLE!!!!!!
Possible main points of the movie:
1. High School kid with a red bike
2. Americanized mellow-drama
3. Random sexy chick that can kick everyone's ass
4. Ends up saving the world...on his red bike
Good. Akira sucked balls anyway. Anyone who pays to see it deserves to be ripped off *again*
NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You made me scroll sideways you prick!
facepalm infinite
Kaneda= Caine
Tetsuo= Ted
Akira= Alex
You heard it here first.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo.... no good.
New York?!?!?! FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD!!!
*giga-facepalm*
The day when they start making live action GUNDAMs is when all hell brakes loose.
they have "G-Savior"
its funny G savior never made it into any sd gundam series games....it is like the japs don't want to admit G savior is a gundam.
Why can't these folks go do something useful???
Like remake Casablanca or Gone with the Wind or even the Sound of Music. That would be more up their alley.
They must think that they're Akira Kurosawa or something. *shakes head*
Akira needs to wake up and destroy Hollywood. The world would be a lot better off.
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>Hollywood Rape
i lol'd so hard
Why is everyone assuming this is going to suck? How many hollywood adaptions of anime series have there even been for you to draw the conclusion that anime adaption= suck? Stuff does get adapted into movies successfully, you know- the fact that video games routinely fail to do so doesn't mean anime series have to suffer the same fate.
The fact that they even can't get video game movies correct, doesn't exactly bode well for translations from manga/anime into a regular movie.
Then there's the aspect that some of the themes/images/actions shown in Akira work precisely because they connect to preexisting themes/images/actions found within Japanese society.
In order to get something to work for your own nation/culture, you'd have to make such changes, that you can no longer talk about an adaption, but about something that's loosely based upon the source material. (Kurosawa did this quite well, I might add. Take a play by Shakespeare, twist and shift it until it becomes something that the Japanese will respond to, because it connects to their experiences. And he at least had the decency not to claim that his works were adaptions of Shakespeare.)
But that's not what they're doing, they're claiming it as an adaption, which simply won't work. See Dragonball Evolution.
"Why is everyone assuming this is going to suck?"
"Neo-Manhatten"
Draw the rest of the implications yourself.
Wow. There's such a large difference in those skyscrapers and roads, darn. It totally affects the entire plot.
I think Shuu is implying that he is a major weeaboo, and if it's not in Japan, it must not be good.
Yes I am, got any problems with that?
If you're too dumb to see why Americanization is a bad thing to do to a piece of work from a culture that has fundamentally different ideas of aesthetics, and is generally considered to be 100% incompatible with what appeals to an "American audience" by the very people that keep dishing out half-assed adaptation after half-assed adaptation, then you'll probably going to enjoy the resulting brainless piece of blow-stuffs-up hollywood shit anyway, so all is good I guess.
For your information, I happen to enjoy European cinema a lot.
Wrong, or at least not relevant implication. Try again.
because it sucked, is sucking, and will suck.
Anime should be left alone. These hollywood adaptations will just create a bad impression to the people who did not see the anime.
hollywoods just dont have any new ideas for their film so they start raeping other franchise to be call MADE IN HOLLYWOOD.
damn bastards.............._|_
Hollywood has tried to adapt more than enough anime into movies for us to know that they suck at it.
Children of Men is a wonderfully layered film, so I'm actually interested in what they'll do with Akira.
Kodansha is really banking on this movie being made, as it should drum up interest for their re-release of the books from their new US manga arm.
IF IT DOESN'T TAKE PLACE IN JAPAN THEN DON'T GIVE THE MOVIE A TITLE WHICH IS A JAPANESE WORD
Because there aren't any Japanese in America with Japanese names right? owait.
Akira is not a japanese word you faggot. Akira is just a name.
You're retarded.
Since when are names not words?
Akira is a Japanese word that the Japanese use as names.
epic failure still coming... hollywood is outta ideas for movies..
Fuck you Hollywood!!
Do it right or dont do it at all
facepalm.rar (filled with 200GB of loli)
Fucking hollywood sucks more and more.
God save us all
Well, it seems that Hollywood is set for another anime adaptation again. And all the Japs here are bashing hollywood because they are trying to make a re-make out of something that's completely outdated.
Jesus christ don't bash Hollywood so much. Go bash the Nodame Cantabile Live Action movie instead.
Except the Nodame Cantabile live action will probably be good? Since, you know, the producers have already shown that they are capable of making a live action adaptation that not only does the manga justice, but is even considered by some to be better than the anime?
And just how exactly is Akira outdated? The stunningly fluid and incredibly detailed hand-drawn visuals easily wipe the floor with 90% of what is being made today...
With all of the changes they make in their "adaptations" they could have made the same movie without soiling the name of classic anime. If they had done that, movies like Dragonball Evolution may have fared better. As it is they try to cash in on the built in fan base and end up alienating said fan base.
Hollywood knows that they alienate the existing fan base when they do stuff like this but they hope that by shoving the fact that the movie is an adaption of a popular series into peoples' faces that it will attract more people that aren't familiar with it.
Guys, you're all being far too negative on this issue. I'm sure Kaneda would look good as a strapping white kid with blonde hair. And Akira could be played by SamueL, that'd surely be an instant classic and extremely hip-cool. As for the little blue kids, call them Martians :) That way we've got something to kill. And the special powers they had could be caused by gamma-radiation from a failed experiment!!
Seems to me as if we're well on our way to another epic masterpiece, can't wait to see what Hollyhood makes of this!! ^^
inb4 sarcasm detector fail...
Let me tell you how it's going to be played out. Somehow, Akira's going to be this whiney teenage kid in high school and will hook up with this chick who happens to be a badass. Then they end up prancing around a bit, go through some american melo-drama and kiss at the end after somehow saving the world.
Someone bomb WB studios, plzkthxbye!!