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Astro Boy Director Speaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-looks-so-pretty dept.

An anonymous reader writes 'The director of Flushed Away, David Bowers, discusses his new Japanese manga adaptation, shares his science fiction influences and relates Astro Boy's thematic relationship to Star Wars.' I recently was reading Astro Boy manga, and I'm very hopeful that the movie won't disappoint. It looks really fantastic, but visuals in trailers certainly can lie.

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  1. I predict... by epiphani · · Score: 4, Funny

    The continued rape of my childhood.

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  2. No mention of production hell by Picass0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Astro Boy ran out of money and fired it's entire staff of animators at one point. The movie was finished on the cheap. I do not have high hopes for this one.

  3. obligatory by earlymon · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.astroboy-themovie.com/

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    Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
  4. This is a travesty by KnownIssues · · Score: 5, Insightful

    *Movie X* was such an influential part of my childhood. You can't just take *X* hours of a series and cram it into a movie without losing everything magical about it. There's just too much compromise moving from *medium X* to the movies. And changing *minor element X* to *minor element Y* just proves that point. This is one movie I will definitely claim not to see. The graphics look pretty good though.