I know that evereyone has had it with remakes but wouldent be great to see something like Akira remade(loosley) into a live action version, a good title might be
“Shining Brightly”.
now I know alot of you are going to respond with alot of negativity to this but it would be great to make it more watchable to people who have strong stereotypes on anime
Live action giant demonic aborted fetus THING. Yeah.
I said a loose remake not a carbon copy
OMG NOOOOOOO!!!
The thought alone scares me. There is no way they could pull it off adequately. Not in live action.
But, I would like to see an Akira (animated) miniseries that follows the plotline of the manga. The manga is huge. Six phonebook sized volumes. And the movie only covers to about halfway through the second book.
Otomo wasn’t finished with the manga (not even close) when he made the anime, so there are many many differences. The anime should be seen as a completely seperate entity than the manga. They even contradict each other about a couple things. But that just means it would be different enough to make a miniseries out of it.
The biggest difference is: Akira is alive! :eek:
I’ve gotta read the manga. Fortunately, my school just got a bunch of manga in the library, including volume 2 of Akira (but the other volumes arent there). Time to read! But i dont want to see a live action Akira. I dont know why, but it seems better suited for an anime. And if your gonna spend money on it, wouldnt it be better to spend it doing the whole series?
Evil_Dave: Well, to be fair, the movie covers about half way through the second book, misplaces snippets of the third and fifth, and snippets of the sixth. So it doens’t cut off the end, it just cuts out most of the very important plot and character developement for big explosions and death.
And I noticed them contradicting each-other about more than a ‘couple’ of things. More or less ‘everything after the second volume,’ really.
Most of the deaths are completely different, too, the American military becomes involved, Joker is alive, characters are there that weren’t in the movie, and more.
Ragnarok: 2 was the only somewhat uplifting Manga Volume, if I remember. Maybe that was 3.
Anyway, I loved the manga so much that the movie was a hideous dissapointment to me. A remake might be a little too much for me to take.
Actual topic of discussion:
I agree, a live action version might appeal to people who don’t like anime. But keep several things in mind, about that. First, making a live action Akira would be hard to do. The characters look the way they do for damn good reason, and finding actors to look just like them is trouble. Second, the whole nature of much of its content requiers animation. Most of the movie would be 3-D animation, which is expensive. Finally, and most importantly, the story of a drug-addled, rage-filled, psionically-charged underdog with power to match his inferiority complex in a setting of Clockwork-Orange-esque ultraviolence and post-apocalypse chaos and anarchic symbolism, it’s not going to appeal to that many people no matter what you do to it.
Also, I don’t know about ‘Shining Brightly.’ The only things in Akira that shine brightly are the destruction of cities, and that’s a pretty bullshit title for the destruction of cities. Also probably taken by easily a hundred movies.
This is probably the worst fucking idea I’ve ever heard. Akira wasn’t even a good movie when animated.
Akira means bright and shining
Thank you so much for saying what needed to be said. You’re my hero.
I agree. I thought it sucked.
I’d heard the guy who directed Catwoman wanted to do a live action version of it.
then it would be terrible Hollywood should leave it alone, it should be an independet film with LOTS of changes to the story to keep it from being a complete remake or ripoff or entirley an Americanization:booster:, such as removing them being a biker gang and other things
Remove the biker gang?
That is a HUGE part of the plot.
And what about all those cool motorcycle scenes?
If you read the Manga, Joker plays a bigger part than he does in the Anime.