Ichi the Killer Director (Maybe) Making a Phoenix Wright Movie
Japanese director Takashi Miike, infamous for occasionally brutal and disturbing films, is setting his sights on adapting a courtroom-themed Nintendo DS game for the big screen.
There's no denying that Japan's Takashi Miike is a talented filmmaker, but he's also an "Imprint" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Miike], was never aired on Showtime, for instance).
Speaking with HuffPo's Karin Badt [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/cannes-2011-takashi-miike_b_865188.html] at the Cannes Film Festival, however, Miike said that his next project would be very different from his latest work, the Cannes-nominated Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai. In contrast to his customarily violent work, Miike said that this next film would have very "little blood."
"It is a very light comedy that I am filming now, a court drama, based on a video game, the Nintendo game DS [sic]."
What game could that be? The most obvious - and most famous - answer would be Capcom's Gyakuten Saiban games, which saw release in the West as the Ace Attorney series. However, there is, in fact, another DS courtroom game - Namco's Yūzai x Muzai - it just isn't as well-known as Gyakuten Saiban.
As someone who absolutely loved the Phoenix Wright games, I'm positively giddy over the possibility of a film adaptation. If it turns out to be the other series, so be it, but the adventure-esque Ace Attorney games would make a perfect fit for a light-hearted court comedy (since, you know, that's what they are).
I just have two questions: If this is in fact a Gyakuten Saiban movie, will they keep the original music [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJE4l6j-hg], and how the hell will they pull off Phoenix Wright's (er, Naruhodō Ryūichi's) hair?
(Twitch Film [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/cannes-2011-takashi-miike_b_865188.html])
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There's no denying that Japan's Takashi Miike is a talented filmmaker, but he's also an "Imprint" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Miike], was never aired on Showtime, for instance).
Speaking with HuffPo's Karin Badt [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/cannes-2011-takashi-miike_b_865188.html] at the Cannes Film Festival, however, Miike said that his next project would be very different from his latest work, the Cannes-nominated Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai. In contrast to his customarily violent work, Miike said that this next film would have very "little blood."
"It is a very light comedy that I am filming now, a court drama, based on a video game, the Nintendo game DS [sic]."
What game could that be? The most obvious - and most famous - answer would be Capcom's Gyakuten Saiban games, which saw release in the West as the Ace Attorney series. However, there is, in fact, another DS courtroom game - Namco's Yūzai x Muzai - it just isn't as well-known as Gyakuten Saiban.
As someone who absolutely loved the Phoenix Wright games, I'm positively giddy over the possibility of a film adaptation. If it turns out to be the other series, so be it, but the adventure-esque Ace Attorney games would make a perfect fit for a light-hearted court comedy (since, you know, that's what they are).
I just have two questions: If this is in fact a Gyakuten Saiban movie, will they keep the original music [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJE4l6j-hg], and how the hell will they pull off Phoenix Wright's (er, Naruhodō Ryūichi's) hair?
(Twitch Film [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/cannes-2011-takashi-miike_b_865188.html])
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