More Akira Live Action news!

It seems there are some good news for Akira fans…unless you hate Live Action Adaptations of course… Apparently, the movie will be directed by some famous brothers…and the movie is not going to be a single shot one…

Warner Bros. is negotiating to reteam with The Book of Eli’s Hughes brothers to have them direct a live-action remake of the cult favorite Akira, from a script by Iron Man scribes Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. (Akira is being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s company, Appian Way, along with Andrew Lazar, who’s also currently producing an adaptation of DC Comics’ Jonah Hex for Warners.)

Respecting the source’s complexity (or perhaps acquiescing to it), Warners won’t proceed with a single, live-action remake of the film, which trimmed away the last half of the 2,182-page graphic novel in order to weigh in at just over two hours. Instead, we hear that the studio is planning to make Akira in two parts, with the first three volumes of the six-volume manga making up the first film, due out next year.

An official release from the studio is expected later this week.

Source: Vulture / NY Magazine

I still have to watch The Book of Eli but at least, Akira will receive some justice by doing a two part movie of it…Lets just hope it does not plummet at the Box Office.

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Kimi no Todoke Live Action Movie!

It seems successful anime series have a shadow…It is called Live Action!

Bessatsu Margarette February issue via MAL news reports that a Kimi ni Todoke live action project was announced. The detail will be given in the later issues of the magazine.

It could work…After all, it is not the first time “Sadako” appears on live action movies…Expect something less chilling than Ringu, but more romantic and funny! What do you think about this project?

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Space Battleship Yamato Live Action Trailer!

I just watched the trailer for the upcoming Space Battleship Yamato live action movie, thanks to our friends at Animerated and a tip from our fellow reader WatcherZero. At first, I thought NOT to post the trailer, but guess I found it very cool and hilarious in a certain way so I just felt tempted to post it…Here it is.

I found the effects very cool and the Yamato itself looks great. One thing that I found hilarious was the similarities between the captain of Yamato and the captain of another famous ship…Titanic

If Yamato ever find an iceberg on deep space, I dont think it will have any problems, thanks to its giant plasma cannon!

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What Japan thinks about live action movies based on manga?

It seems many japanese dislike the idea of adapting anime and manga series for a live action version of it…This recent survey from iShare via What Japan thinks shed some light about the preference of many Japanese for this adaptations…

Demographics

Between the 5th and 10th of November 2009 531 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.3% of the sample were male, 34.7% in their twenties, 30.9% in their thirties, and 34.5% in their forties.

Q1: Has any manga that you like ever been made into an anime? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Yes (if yes, jump to SQs)	66.3%	65.4%	67.6%
No	33.7%	34.6%	32.4%

Q1SQ1: How did you feel when you first heard it had been made into an anime? (Sample size=352)

	All	Male N=206	Female N=146
Really happy	25/3%	27.7%	21.9%
A little happy	31.0%	33.0%	28.1%
Nothing in particular	22.2%	23.3%	20.5%
A little bad	17.6%	12.6%	24.7%
Totally bad	4.0%	3.4%	4.8%

Q1SQ2: Have you watched the anime version of a manga you like? (Sample size=352)

	All	Male N=206	Female N=146
Yes	94.9%	94.7%	95.2%
No	5.1%	5.3%	4.8%

Q2: Has there been an anime that you enjoyed when you first saw it, but then found out later that it was based on a manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Yes	52.7%	51.1%	55.1%
No	47.3%	48.9%	44.9%

Q3: Has there been a television drama, movie, etc that you enjoyed when you first saw it, but then found out later that it was based on a manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Yes	53.7%	47.9%	62.0%
No	46.3%	52.1%	38.0%

Q4: What do you think about anime versions of manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Completely approve	15.4%	19.7%	9.3%
Approve to some extent	52.9%	48.3%	59.7%
Disapprove to some extent	26.4%	25.1%	28.2%
Completely disapprove	5.3%	7.0%	2.8%

Q5: What do you think about live-action versions of manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Completely approve	4.7%	5.4%	3.7%
Approve to some extent	30.5%	28.6%	33.3%
Disapprove to some extent	42.7%	41.0%	45.4%
Completely disapprove	22.0%	25.1%	17.6%

Source: iShare via What Japan thinks

I am not surprised by many of this answers, especially the one about live versions of manga…There have been quite a lot of disasters lately, trying to adapt manga into live action…

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