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Live-Action Remake of Akira
GusherJizmac writes "Looks like Warner Bros. is looking to remake classic anime, Akira, as a live
action feature-length film. Will current computer generated special effects be enough to bring this masterpiece to life?" We touched on this earlier, but now it looks closer to production, since Norrington has finished shooting for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
the actors will have to be very good at stressed-out grunting and making their *grrrrrrr* faces. on the bright side, anna nicole smith can play tetsuo when he grows into that blob in the stadium.
Wow, this is one DVD I wouldn't mind seeing bastardized via DRM. The fewer people who see this the better.
You can get it on Kazaa or Morpheus...
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
1. Put linux on the X-box
2. ?????
3. Profit!
Akira would be one anime that doesn't have the ungodly tits and saucer eyes.....
Now a live action Evangelion, that would need major 7of9 style corsetry...
----- One piece short of Legoland
You're right. Besides, never in a million years will they every be able to get the "Kaneda! Tetsuo!" bit quite right. Often immitated, never equaled.
"League," set in a version of Victorian-era England where fictional characters like Dr. Jekyll, Capt. Nemo and Allan Quartermain band together to fight crime for the queen, is scheduled for a summer 2003 release via Twentieth Century Fox.
Do we really want this guy to do Akira?
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
I'm still waiting for the live-action Overfiend series.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck star as Tetsuo and Kaneda, who will for the purposes of this film be given wholesome American names such as "Mike" and "Richard" (In the final act, Mike makes a humorous observation that Richard's name can be shortened to Dick!)
The two high school football players who were wrongfully accused and placed in a boys home (Not that there's anything wrong with that) do battle with the evil Osama Bin Akira (Played by Vin Diesel). The battle results in the evil leader using his mind control powers to send Mike battling against democracy by channelling previous generations of communists through dark rituals involving Lenin and Satan.
In the end, Mike is brought back down to earth by Richard singing the national anthem over a loud speaker and waving old glory. The two have a long embrace and make a joke about how they love each other but aren't gay.
5 stars!
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Worse yet, how about making a trilogy that dips into three other movies filmed before it for content, only to have remakes of *those* first three movies made to reinforce assertions made in the second trilogy?
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
Having women being raped by snakes and tentacles doesn't work well with real actors. Trust me on this one...
Apparently, Will Wheaton will star, Natalie Portman will make a brief appearance (her first "full-frontal" scene), the special effects will be rendered on a Beowulf cluster of Ti notebooks running whatever the latest beta Linux kernel is available, a new character will be created who can only say the words, "cowboy" and "neil", and the movie will end with Yoda using the force to make the entire universe disappear.
Well between the all-star cast and the killer ending, I'd say we don't have much hope of any sequels...
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
two most vicious drinking games ever. Just pick either tetsuo or kaneda and drink every time you hear the name.
imagine Planet of the Apes as a cartoon.
Troy: [singing]
I hate every ape I see
From chimpan-a to chimpan-zee
No you'll never make a monkey out of me
Oh my God, I was wrong
It was Earth all along
You've finally made a monkey
Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey
Troy: Yes you've finally made a monkey out of me
Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey out of you
Troy: I love you, Dr. Zaius!
The Simpsons (3F15) A Fish Called Selma
... If Mini Me will get a role ...
No, but I do have the DVD of the live action La Blue Girl!!
Two in particular that caught my attention.
1. Cris Rock playing Inspector Cleusau in a Pink Panther Remake.
2. A proposed remake of the classic caper film 'The Italian Job' set in Los Angeles!
Whoa!
Yeah, you just know they're going to wreck Akira. Who knows, the Hollowood version might even make a whit of sense.. *BLASTPHEMY* !
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
I mean, Street Fighter was SUCH an awesome movie once they did the live action version of that.
How can it fail?!?! heh...
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I've been saying "Canada".
Why didn't anyone tell me? I've been making an ass out of myself.