[Toshiro]

Fuck Hollywood. Stop remaking shit. If you can't come up with a new idea, maybe it's time to look for a new job.

[Pauly]

*Long sigh*

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this thread took my sleep away. HOW?? How could they think of such a thing?

[Azyiu]

I am still on the fence on this one, but slightly leaning toward Naren's way...

I love Akira... and I can totally see how a Hollywood live-action movie could completely ruin its magic. More importantly, what KIND of music for this one? I cannot picture anything else to replace what Shoji Yamashiro had done for the anime movie.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by Azyiu

I am still on the fence on this one, but slightly leaning toward Naren's way...

I love Akira... and I can totally see how a Hollywood live-action movie could completely ruin its magic. More importantly, what KIND of music for this one? I cannot picture anything else to replace what Shoji Yamashiro had done for the anime movie.

They're probably gonna put an Avril Lavigne song on it like I've seen happen to a lot of other American remakes -- or maybe go the Rob Zombie route and put all the "gritty" pseudo-industrial metal in it with really corny cheesy lyrics.

I cannot imagine this being good in my wildest dreams - and, believe me, my dreams are pretty wild.

[zimbloth]

I really don't see why this matters to you people. A new Akira movie coming out does not take anything away from the original whatsoever. How would a new movie, even if it sucked, possibly make the original less enjoyable to watch?

I'm huge fan of Akira, I always have been, but I think you anime diehards are taking this way too personally.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by zimbloth

I really don't see why this matters to you people. A new Akira movie coming out does not take anything away from the original whatsoever. How would a new movie, even if it sucked, possibly make the original less enjoyable to watch?

I'm huge fan of Akira, I always have been, but I think you anime diehards are taking this way too personally.

It has nothing to do with being an "anime diehard." I get pissed off when they take novels that I like and turn them into Hollywood movies that are nothing like the original novel and have actors and actresses that don't fit their roles at all.

Sure, the original comic series and original movie will still be just as good and just as enjoyable, but this new movie will not. It's like when they turn your favorite novel into a really shitty movie. It irritates you and makes you wish the money-grubbing Hollywood execs who could care less about the actual story had just left well enough alone.

For me personally, it has nothing to do with it being an animation. It could just as well have been a live action movie being remade or a novel or whatever.

I think of Akira as just an excellent movie, based off of an excellent series. I don't think of it so much as an "excellent animation."

[zimbloth]

I agree that it would be best if they left the original alone, I just think the level of anger over this seems over the top from some of you. I'm not singling you out.

Sometimes it works out though. "The Fifth Element" was based on the 1981 animated film "Heavy Metal". It went in a completely different direction but it ended up being awesome anyways. Who knows until it's completed?

[Naren]

Originally Posted by zimbloth

Sometimes it works out though. "The Fifth Element" was based on the 1981 animated film "Heavy Metal". It went in a completely different direction but it ended up being awesome anyways. Who knows until it's completed?

Really? I've seen both films and it never occurred to me that they were even remotely related...

[zimbloth]

Originally Posted by Naren

Really? I've seen both films and it never occurred to me that they were even remotely related...

Yup. 'Heavy Metal' was a collection of a few different interlocking stories as you know, 'The Fifth Element' was loosely based on the "Harry Canyon" story, which also involved a wise-ass NYC flying tax-cab driver trying to protect a strange woman on the run, etc. It doesn't follow the story exactly obviously, but there are numerous connections between to the two films.