AKIRA LIVE ACTION BACK FROM THE GRAVE

>>157137182
I want an American Touhou live action with west coast bitches playing all the girls. The battles won't be about power levels anymore but who fucks the most chads.

Fuck fuck fuck no I don't want hollywood to ruin this one. I was fine with GITs because of the amount of shitty adaptations that already exist of it - but not Akira, goddammit.

Gibs dat Olympic money gaijin.

honestly, why do they keep trying to make these adaptations? didn't gits bomb? there's a million western cape comics they can try first before this.

>>157137323
what? sac is better than the movie. is the other one that bad?

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cast tetsuo

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>>157137323
Akira is already one for one in the "shitty adaptations" department.

>>157137182
What would they call the movie since its going to be white washed?

Certainly not Akira, that's too foreign. I suspect something like "Psycho City"

Something totally garbage

>>157137488
they probably forgot the manga exists.

>>157137182
please don't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI

>>157137562
that's the whole point. they have an "exotic" sounding name to appeal to the "culturally enriched" moviegoers.

>>157137562
>"Akira" becomes "A Killer"

>>157137562
>white washed
Reminder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DhoBuU1Dtc

>>157137562
They'll call it Akira since it's an identifiable "brand" for their publicity.

>let's take art and make it not

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>>157137182
speaking of GitS, has any more info been released about the new animated series that they're apparently planning to make?

>>157137686
Akira: Subtitle

>>157137276
The very first post proves the people posting in these threads are faggots from /r9k/ and other edgy normalfag boards. Can we disallow Western live action adaptations from /a/ already? The rule is obviously intended for Japanese adaptations like Aku no Hana, not this trash. Take >>>/tv/ shit back to the >>>/trash/

>>157137562
They will have learned their lesson from GitS and will cast it entirely with Korean-Americans.

>>157137717
>>157137659
>Movie name will be Akira
>will take place in New-New York
>Main character is Sam (Kaneda), a canadian, and his friend Fred.
>They discover AKIRA project, acronym for A Killer In Recent Atlantic
>AKIRA destroyed a large chunk of atlantic ocean, including new york, hence the name
>Akira is BLACK

>>157137835
>They will have learned their lesson
>implying "whitewashing" was the issue with GitS
if they've learned their lesson they will pay more attention to the source material and write a plot that isn't typical Hollywood cookie-cutter garbage. Scar-Jo's casting would have been fine if the rest of the movie was worth a damn.

>>157137182
Akira can't be that hard for them to adapt but yet again the atmosphere and scenery won't be as good as in the animated film. No Geinoh Yamashirogumi, none of my Gaijin dollars.

>>157137182
This has been in development hell so long that kids won't get a lot of the jokes in the old Happy Harry cartoon.

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After Gits hope these faggots don't touch it any time soon.

At least Jin Roh will never be handed to some Hollywood incompetent money grubbing Jew.

>>157137182
>I actually liked the 2016 Ghost in the Shell
Can't account for your cancerous tastes.

>>157138118
Not if they decide to make about some conspicuously white freedom fighter OCs.

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>>157137488
kill yourself, my man

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>>157137182
Ebin. Simply ebin.

>>157137935
akira will be a space baby.

>>157138118
jin roh was forgettable.

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>>157138296
>Akira
>Akari
HOLY SHIT

>>157138242
Only adapting the first third of a story makes for an objectively shit adaptation no matter how you look at it.

>>157138621
Akira is succinct and hermetic, anything more is useless.

>>157138000
>implying they are capable of learning that lesson

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>>157137182
>live action.

>Jordan Peele not directing
What's the point?

>>157138351
I remember it better than I remember Akira.
Jin-Roh:
>cool armor suits
>kind of a Romeo and Juliet thing
>but he kills her, huh, I guess he's the wolf, makes sense
Akira:
>some kid wants his buddy's bike
>messes with... some kind of genetically engineered psychic baby?
>blows up a city, and there's also some military guy?
>do I remember a laser satellite?
I probably remember more details about the riot scene in Jin-Roh's opening credits than in the entirety of Akira. It was just that forgettable to me. Maybe it was groundbreaking when it was released and it's just the Seinfeld effect.

Christ, did we learn NOTHING from Ghost in the Shell?

By Hollywood classification, Akira and GitS are the same: Sci-fi action. It doesn't matter if you cast 2 A-list actors as Tetsuo and Kaneda, people won't go see a movie just for the cast anymore.

>>157138621
The rest of the manga was shit anyways.

>live action movie decides to adapt the manga insted on the anime
>2+ hour long chase scene

God that shit was awful.

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>>157138844
>forgetting the motorbike chase

>>157138844
Akira is just as important for what it did to Japanese animation as it is as a film.

>>157138844
I mean, Akira is a classic for a reason and jam-packed full of iconic scenes. Forgetting them is more on you than it, I think.

>>157139244
It's a "classic" because it looks good. That's the only reason. The only scene anyone remembers is the bike chase. Akira is shit.

>>157139282
Do you actually believe what you're saying, or are you just trying to be a mother fucker?

And the prom's tomorrow.

>>157139320
Both, those aren't mutually exclusive.

I don't know any popular movie directors. I've become completely out of touch with Hollywood. I only know who Christopher Nolan is because I used to be into capeshit.

Who do you think will be the western director least likely to butcher Akira?

>>157139408
The story is too deeply rooted in Japan for any kind of Westerner to do correctly.

>>157139408
Doesn't matter. The second-string will listen to the execs and fuck it up.

>>157138844
>>157139244
Is it bad that I liked it more for its animation rather than its story? I had no idea what was going on for most of the movie.

>>157139282
It's not just a classic because it "looks good". It's also a classic because it was hugely influential to a generation of animators and their styles in Japan and is an extremely rare case of getting so many of the very most talented animators of their generation working on one project at one time.

>>157139479
I mean, it IS brilliantly animated. But the story's brilliant as well. I wouldn't worry about not understanding it at first, it's allegorical and there's a lot to read into, plus it goes into some surreal bits which can be a lot to take in. You'll pick up on it when you rewatch.

>>157139599
I do wonder if the story seems better to some than others depending on how and when you saw it. If you got into watching seasonal anime and had been doing that for a while then decided to watch Akira I can imagine you not thinking the story was incredible. I remember when I first watched it at as teenager sometime near midnight on VHS and hadn't really seen anything quite like it before and was completely mind blown in all respects.

>>157139737
I had the opposite experience, actually. Watched it before I really got into anime, thought it was convoluted shock-value nonsense. Now I'm quick to call it one of the best ever.

>>157139599
I see. Just watched a stream of it, so that makes sense.

>>157139839
>streaming Akira
I want to die

>>157137182
they're going to try something darker who's going to play Kaneda & Tetsuo

So they're going to be portrayed by black men?

>>157137763
Akira: [subtitle that spoils the movie]

>>157137182
But Akira already have a live action and it was kind of good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-M5Qx57_UU

>>157139839
>stream
The Blu Ray is cheap, Akira doesn't deserve such low standards.

>>157139511
>an extremely rare case of getting so many of the very most talented animators of their generation working on one project at one time.
So, it looks good.

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He was a regular man until one day the government took that away from him. He is the AKIRA!!!!

>>157140096
just check nyaa I had a 720p once,should still be there

>>157137562
A Kieran

>>157137447
Arise was shit but the live action was worse. It was more like robocop.

>>157137182
STOP

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I want to see Hollywood adapt Patlabor as an 80s style buddycop movie
Ota would be the crazy guy who shoots up ghettos

>>157140918
You know what I want to see?
An adaptation of a giant nuke smashing into Hollywood's giant asshole

>>157138118
Don't worry, they'll just change locations to Japamerica and copy/paste the movie.

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>>157137182
>2016

failtroll

>>157137182
They are still on this. Next thing you'll tell me is that live action Cowboy Bebop movie starring Keanu Reeves as Spike is still in the works.

>>157137182
Will they remake the film?
Or do you think they will do the whole story?

K-on live action Western adaption when?

>>157141290
going by how they handled GITS,it'll be a hogepodge of everything and the kitchen sink

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>>157141240
There was an article about trying to revive that project a couple of months ago where they mentioned that now Keanu looks too old.

Those Jews at Hollywood simply won't stop until they've conquered the samurai with their multiculturalism agenda, huh?

>>157141339
When Disney has multiple popular young female singers under contract again.

>>157141385
Well the Jews are losing their stranglehold on the vidya industry so they gotta do something to compete with Nippon

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>>157141365
They should really stop. Please.

Why not start on that Jojo movie starring Daniel Radcliffe as Jotaro and Sylvester Stallone as Star Platinum.

>>157141439
Can't they just stick with capeshit? MCU owns the box office every year and Japan actually loves superhero movies.

On the other hand, it may be a good thing if Hollywood finally bends and casts an Asian for a lead role in an anime adaptation - but it's a Korean or Chinese instead.
>uproar in Japan over having a gook play the role of one of their favorite characters
>boycott and subsequent refusals by authors to let Hollywood touch their titles

>>157139282
>forgetting the toy monsters scene
>forgetting the motherfucking satellite laser scene
>forgetting jb tits
>forgetting the unpeeling of AKIRA's tomb chamber
>forgetting KANEDA, HELP MEEEE
And that's just literally 10 seconds of thinking about it.

No anon, you are shit.

>>157140124
Rob Schneider is Akira

Rated PG-13

>>157141809
as long as they keep the OST intact it should be fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpDvtIt6Lsc

>>157138877
one's horror m8 the other could be a buddy cop movie with Aramaki

>keep on making anime-based movie adaptations likely to fail, and expecting different results

Hollywood sure does fit the definition of insanity.

>>157139408
It legitimately might have been Peele.

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They better fucking cast Kanye in it

>>157137182
two black guys and a third brown guy added

>>157140023
Chronicle is good in part because it's inspired by Akira without trying to be Hollywood Akira.

>>157143237
Since they are thugs now it would make sense to make everyone black.

>>157138351
In the way that it's not and you're a fucking liar, sure

>>157143237
There are no white people in AKIRA anyway, everyone looks like a Mexican

>>157137406
To be fair this one has been in purgatory since the early 2000s when Spielberg was thinking about it iirc. Besides there was already an Akira rip off a few years ago, called chronicle or something like that.

>>157137182
It'll fail for the same reason GitS did. They'll keep the visual to cater to fans and throw out the plot to cater to mainstream. And fail both.

At this point, I'm thinking that Edge of Tomorrow is the most faithful adaptation and that's terrible, since they threw out everything about the second protag and made her love interest only.

god fuck, why don't they just try gundam
the MC is white

>>157143141
>"It is also signed by Kanye West as well ass his producer..."
They say this like it is a good thing. That motherfucker should have never signed it in the first place, much less his fucking producer.

>>157145038
nigga this shit is as close to an akira movie as you'll get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g

>>157145100
I am aware of the song and the video for it. Maybe I was being a little harsh in my post, considering that it seems like he genuinely is a fan of the film, but I still feel that you shouldn't sign something like that bike unless you were somehow associated with Akira. Regardless, the producer should have also not signed it

>>157141365
Unironically wouldn't mind a western adaption of Cowboy Bebop.

>>157138040
>No Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Easily the most outstanding thing about the movie by a mile. They just told Mr. Yamashiro to not worry about a budget and make a masterpiece.

>>157137182

I liked it too, OP.

>>157141411
>Disney will never cash in on that and do their own idolshit

>>157137182
>hollywood didn't learn their lesson: the adaption
It's gonna bomb again.

>>157137182
As long jewllywood does not discover how profitable is the nasuverse and the Fate series in general, i'm okay with this-.

Can you even imagine how scary that shit would be?

>>157137182
is DiCaprio still attached to the project? he was one of the people who was pushing for it to be a trilogy that covers the whole manga rather than just remaking the anime movie

>>157137182
>I actually liked the 2016 Ghost in the Shell

It wasn't bad but sunk down to generic sci-fi level and Scarjo not knowing how to play the Major. Then again, I'm worried if I rewatch the original GitS I'll take off my nostalgia glasses...

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>>157143573
This.

There are a a bunch of directors and actors who are comic book and manga fans. They've been itching to do some of these series for a while.

>>157145171
Didn't they make that bike for the video? Why wouldn't they sign it?

>>157141521
>Sylvester Stallone as Star Platinum

You kid, but we'd all fucking watch that, for better or worse.

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>Western adaptation is unexpected hit
>The 1988 classic is now forever titled "Akira: The Animation

>>157137488
You're retarded

>>157138351
t. IQlet

>>157138672
Exactly. Not a wasted frame. Tell me, manga sheep, what exactly did volumes 3-6 add to the story? The themes? Apart from the finale, the manga was bloated and Otomo cut the fat expertly. Retards who need everything spoonfed to them over a thousand pages prefer the manga.

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Why are we pretending Akira was good again?

Most overrated garbage of all time

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>Get rights to make live action version of Doum
>It's the perfect length for a film, the setting is loose enough to be set anywhere and Otomo's pages are so cinimatatic the movie is practically already storyboarded.
>Scrap that and keep pushing hard to make a live action version of Akira that will be undoubtedly shit and wont appeal to fans or a mainstream audience.

Missed opportunity Hollywood.

>>157145171
Uh, that movie was animated my man, haha. That's not a prop from the movie, his team made it, they can sign it.

>>157139511
it also influenced donnie darko, the matrix and other films like that.

>>157141365
get danny sexbang to do it.

I'm mad there won't be an EDF movie because Americans are still triggered by 9/11

>>157139084
Well, yeah, that was cool animation, but I just throw that in the "cool animation" box with Daikon and the candy monster from the Raggedy Ann movie.

>>157139157
I understand that, that's why I said "Seinfeld effect." It's like how the concepts in Neuromancer used to blow peoples' minds but now everyone's familiar with them so it's like reading 1910 science fiction.

>>157149581
>making movies based on the suitability of the source material and the potential for good storytelling, organic advertising, and long-term profit
>not making movies based on how many people are already aware of the brand
I can tell why you don't work there.

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>>157137562
>Psycho City
Sounds like trashy, late 80's manime. I'd watch it.

>>157137763
Akira: Bottom Text

>>157137706
>Asking normalfags on the street instead of actual GITS fans

Reminder that Live Action Battle Angel Alita is still happening and already has a cast.

Would be amusing if they replace Kaneda's bike with some american motorcycle.