Blood: The Last Vampire Live Action Trailer Promises Blood
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 8, 2009 08:12 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Blood The Last Vampire, Hollywood, Production IG, Video Gallery
Pathé has recently released the trailer for the live action adaptation of Mamoru Oshii and Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s Blood: The Last Vampire anime:
Player 1
Directed by Chris Nahon, the movie was written by Production IG’s Kenji Kamiyama and Hong Kong’s Ronny Yu, and stars South Korean Gianna Jun (or Jeon Ji-hyun if you prefer) as the serafuku wearing sword wielding vampire busting girl, Otonashi Saya.
Meanwhile, the main antagonist, Onigen, will be played by the Japanese Koyuki.
The movie will premier in Japan (May 29, under the title Last Blood), and will then show in the United Kingdom (June 12) and France (June 17).
Interestingly enough, the film might not be aired in the United States, in 2009 at least: Universal Pictures acquired the rights for this movie last August, but they have yet to decide a date for it.
The trailer looks impressive enough, and considering that it is written by Production IG (the original studio for the anime), the adaptation seems set to stay true to its Japanese roots, unlike certain other recent adaptations.
The only point of issue seems to be how the Engrish level of the actors and actresses will turn out to be.
On the other hand, choosing Jeon Ji-Hyun as an attractive lead does help, although it will not help quell those critical of the movie industry for unerringly failing to cast Japanese actors in “Japanese” roles.
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Oughta be better than the anime series.
i dunno.
looks like way more effects than story.
looks perfect for Saya
I'm pretty sure her roaming the streets of japan to kill a kimono wearing queen-bitch vampire is NOT true to it's roots..
The original movie took place on a american army base in okinawa, the series took place in okinawa, then vietnam, then a sprawl across europe..
Can't wait to see Saya again on the screen! (≧▼≦)
Hrrm still not working for me, channel not working still either. Guess I'll wait on my ISP then~
Sure, it promises blood, but does it promise any last vampires?
My sources say no. Then, they hit me.
she looks like the the right actress to act as for the main female cast for this movie looking forward for it
not lewding.....
looks like a movie worth watching together with all your buddies, just after you watch the full anime the night before....o that will be one glorious day indeed....
Well the thing is I am sure this movie is based on the original OVA which was actually mostly in english. So for the people who didn't watch the original, this movie is actually more loyal than you think.
holy crap holy crap holy crap
i heard a rumor about this, but i thought it was a long way off.
i am so pumped for this!!! blood was freakin awesome and blood+ was too
Mmmmm... My Sassy Vampire... :3 The movie doesn't look so good, though. :/
The tailer is great, I would anticipate more blood, gore and violence in the movie, epic for me.
Isn't she too old for the role? I don't mind casting Korean as Saya, but I believe Saya should have an image of high school girl. I don't know if many westerner noticed it, but when I see the screen shot (of the trailer and not the photo in this post), sometimes (mostly on close up shot) she doesn't look age appropriate for the role...
Doesn't mean the movie will suck tho... Actually I have a feeling that this movie will be a good one, especially compared to other anime - live action movie adaptation.
this looks interesting
i found it here
http://www.cartoonleap.com/2009/02/13/blood-the-last-vampire-live-action-teaser-trailer/
and here if use wants it
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/blood-the-last-vampire-english-trailer/
looks ok.. now just to watch the original anime and ill be good
Want to see what kind of sword did she use...
looks goood
I'd Do her!
Watched it last weekend. Another Hollywood failure.
Good job Saya, too bad the story is epic fail compared to Blood+.
whatever but "blood +" shit plzzzz
however it seems they just plagied the first Blade movie... well the shame for it... it was a good idea T_T
"... although it will not help quell those critical of the movie industry for unerringly failing to cast Japanese actors in “Japanese” roles."
Except Saya was originally found in Iceland, not to mention the minor detail of her being a pure-blood Chiropteran queen. Therefore it is very likely that she is, in fact, not Yamato (or Asian... or even human for that matter) to begin with... deshou?
Issue resolved.
~
June 17th until now hein?
I'm so gonna watch this movie when it comes out.
Major fail for not casting a Japanese actress in the main part. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
A must see for me!
I'm a serious Blade(not3)/Underworld aholic...
anyone will do, as long as she's beautiful and got asian face... (^_^)v
she's freaking hot lol
I'm not really sure why otaku make such a fuss about casting non-Japanese actors in Japanese roles. Hollywood rarely goes out and finds real actors with real French or German or Italian or whatever ancestry for roles when they make historical adaptations of foreign literature and instead opt for Americans with vague cultural backgrouns; why do anime adaptations deserve a special treatment?
S'not like Japanese anime ever casts real Americans or Brits for those roles in anime =/ At least Hollywood's getting the CONTINENT right.
Red Cliff II had Takeshi Kaneshiro cast for the character of Zhuge Liang. I'm not too bothered as long as they speak the language proper in the movie which in this case is Japanese...
Go watch Detroit Metal City. Both the Live Action and the OVA uses real US person for the role of The Emperor, Jack Ill Dark. Heck, they fukken used GENE SIMMONS!
You need to consider the difference in budgets between a hollywoord movie and a Japanese anime before you can make that comment.
Plus, there are many cases in anime that they try their best (in their budget) to find a native [insert nationality here] to voice the role.
The Nationalists have more issue with this sort of thing than the otaku. You know, the people who seem to believe that Japan consists entirely of pure Yamato-bloods who are unique and special and better than the rest of the world because they descend from proud samurai with superior culture. Foreign dogs couldn't possibly grasp the amazingness of Japan's four seasons! TEAM JAPAN RAH RAH
zomg! Jeon ji hyun my fav. Korean actress.. definitely watching this
hmmm...engrish. At least its almost certain to be better than the dragon ball z movie. The fights look nice.
Video not found.
fine by me......
It is working for me? Anyone else?
Video not found
oh stop whining guys, and just go to Youtube already... does everyone need to be led by the hand like kids?
Bad luck. I can't watch it. (Yes, tried refreshing.)
I'd recommend to try refreshing the page, as it seems to be working fine for most.
Damn, not working for me too ;_; But at least I can see the player ^_^
Not able to watch any sansaku video or visit the chanel...
I think this might be a DNS propagation issue...
Not for me
Fine here.
아 결국하는겨?
Working just fine.
video not found. if i try to click on it again, it seems to load something, but never finishes to do it. anyway, by typing the thread title on youtube, i've found the trailer anyway. sorry for the non working link, but at least you gave the advice to look for it.
worked after refresh
Added to my hosts file and now even the chan works.
It's the DNS changes made yesterday - just be patient and your ISP will update soon...
Video not found, but that’s because it couldn’t resolve content.sankakucomplex.com’s IP address.
I found the ip address and added to my hosts file:
202.212.90.231 content.sankakucomplex.com
Afterwards, the video would load.
I guess you could also watch it on Youtube. Quality is about the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2L8Mgxd5Q&fmt=18 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2L8Mgxd5Q&fmt=18]
Video working *just* fine here...!
I saw the other trailer (on youtube) and this one (seeing it) in English was kinda (off)...I'm used to seeing it in its native language...
But, still, this had more to see...
Looking forward to seeing this!
http://content.sankakucomplex.com/video/blood_the_last_vampire_trailer.flv
If this doesn't load it must be slow DNS caching for some of you - apologies.
it's not working for me.
that reminds me, i'm having a few troubles with links lately. it's since.. yesterday ? i couldn't connect at all with sankaku, and i've been really sad. Once i could log again, i've found a few troubles as i said before.. is my connection failing ? oh please don't.
Yeah, neither hosted videos nor the channel are loading properly for me.
Nice!
They kept Saya's proper nationality not like dragonball where everybody magically turned american.
Who ever said Dragonball was based in Japan or that the character's nationality was Japanese?
Roshi-Asian
Yamcha-Asian
ChiChi-Asian
Goku=not Asian (he's a goddamn alien in the series, it doesn't matter)
Bulma=not Asian (which also doesn't matter)
Dragonball's world is a weird cultural hotchpotch, so nationality can't be really attributed to everybody without fail...
Not to mention Piccolo and he's a vampire not a Namek,and be killed by Saya.
Um, did I ever said they were Japanese?
It is based on the Saiyuki so they should be at least Eastern Asian.
It would be blasphemy (if) they changed her nationality!
If they (meaning Hollywood) are going to make a movie *based* on a Animé then do it - "right" - and not make it a farce, as Dragonball...is going to be.
I know I am judging the film (prior) to - (( not )) seeing it, but from what the trailer tells me...
It's a disaster....
GO SAYA!