Unexpectedly for a game-based film, the casting of Hiroki Narimiya as Phoenix Wright (Naruhodō Ryūichi) in the upcoming movie adaptation of Capcom’s Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) series has been meeting with widespread approval online.
Almost unheard of for a game to movie adaptation, the online reaction is almost uniformly positive:
“No objection!”
“He looks just the part…”
“No objection, unexpectedly.”
“This verdict is quite the reverse!”
“I’ll watch it!”
“It won’t be this close, surely.”
“Ob-No objection!”
“I expect they can get someone to match the judge as well.”
“They really put some effort in then.”
The film is due to hit Japanese cinemas on February 11th, 2012.
He looks ok, but he seems to fit the role
I have fan girls now. No objection!
So looking forward to seeing that!
But come on. Phoenix Wright? Edgeworth Miles? they both sound like EUROPEAN names. I would only accept everything if the setting was an England with pseudo-japanese influences as if the two island nations merged into one! Filmed on location of course.
Even if you’d probably find a white guy with the real hair line, its not a shame to know that japan always commission character designs that imply that their characters are half Japanese half Caucasian, a lot of times. With ff 12 they wanted Ashe to be french but later the designer added Japanese like eyes and stated tht it would be better to have her be half french physiology and half Japanese.
Incoming US remake starring Leonardo DiCaprio, lol.
but the real news is that takshi miike is making it. meaning this film already = gold