Warner Bros. Courts New Akira Director
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And you're welcome to think that. A lot of my acquaintances just told me that if it didn't have the Final Fantasy name slapped on it they would have been more charitable towards it.Yosharian said:
And my point about changing the name was mostly that they've changed practically everything else, so it's barely going to have any similarities to the original in the end. It'll just end up being another apocalypse movie. So if the story has nothing to do with the original, it's basically an original movie with a marketable name attached. Take away the marketable name, some of the bad will attached will likely go away.
Actually, as much as I wish that he'd go back to sucking like he did in the 90's (if, for no other reason, because I hate misjudging people), Timberlake has actually turned out to be a pretty good actor. In Social Network, the recent Bad Teacher, and even some of the crap he's done like The Love Guru, he really tends to steal the scenes he's in. One has to admit, he has a charismatic presence. There are way, way worse people that could be cast.ThingWhatSqueaks said:
But, for discussion's sake, I don't believe he is still attached.
Oh, I understand where you're coming from. Personally, I quite enjoyed the film, but the majority of the people I know that saw it had one major complaint, "That shit wasn't Final Fantasy!" These are the same people that didn't get why I laughed when Dr. Cid was introduced. The average player doesn't look deeper into the games for their themes and messages. They went to the movie expecting it to be a swords-and-sorcery tale with moogles and black mages, or they just wanted to see Cloud hefting his drastically oversized sword while looking somber. These are the people that wanted it to be overflowing with Chocobos and Cactuars.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
I tried pointing out to more than one person that it was actually fairly close to FFVII, in setting and tone if nothing else, but no dice. The only thing I could end up saying to them was, "Well, at least it had James Woods in it." (because everybody loves James woods!)
Umm, although I can see the logic of that in the general case, here we are dealing with a long-standing franchise, so I would definitely say that alienating your existing audience is exactly what you don't do. Sure, you might loose a couple of Comic Book guys, but "New Manhattan" and "John" and "Mark" instead of Tetsuo and Kaneda? That's kind of like doing "The Little Mermaid", but you replace "Ariel" with "Bella", move it onto land and make the Prince be cursed by a witch and call him "Beast". But you still call it "Little Mermaid" instead of "Beuty and the Beast". Ok, maybe the Disney thing wasn't the best analogy, but I think y'all see what I'm getting at. How is this Akira? "Based on characters, thrice removed?"Logan Westbrook said:
I'm really beginning to wonder who the target audience is. At this stage, they might as well scrap any pretense of actually being anything remotely connected to Akira and make Yet-Another-Superhero movie; that makes more sense as far as viewership goes.
Edit: They could even add some in-references to Akira in this would-be YASH movie and tickle the fans' fancies, instead of alienating them.
Uhhmm ... what? Have you missed the deluge of american superhero cartoons the last decades? Some of them where ... well, decent, but so are all live-action adaptions. Actually, most live action anme is pretty horrendous. Or, wait, maybe you're being facetious ... I can never tell on the internet!Arkvoodle said:
I don't know why they insist on making this movie. Seems like a bad idea. Akira is. Eccentric. And is very much the culture it's based on. adaptations happen all the time from books and even other countries but for someone to make something like Akira work. It would take magic. Devil magic. Which is good because a lot of animes don't make discernments from normal magic to the demon magic unless the main theme of said story has to do with friendship.