Oh great! We get a live-action AKIRA, but look who the director is.....

[Khephra]

Catwoman Director to Helm Akira (2004-10-23 16:39:31)
In an interview with French website Télérama, Katsuhiro Otomo has stated that Pitof, the director of Catwoman, is set to direct the live action adaptation of Akira.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/

http://cinema.telerama.fr/edito.asp?art_airs=MAG2146777&srub=2

CATWOMAN DIRECTOR?

:slamsdheadintokeyboardrepeatedly:

[tridim]

1. Anime is animated for a reason

I really wish they'd lay off the live action anime films, the art of anime is already perfect as-is. They're going to ruin Akira, I guarantee it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. You're fucking kidding me! First Aeon Flux now this??? I will boycott it

You can't improve on the animation!

[aden_nak]

3. Wait, WHAT? They are doing live action Aeon Flux?

And oh my fucking god, they cast Charlize Theron as Aeon? That's. . . that's simply unacceptable. Not that I can really think of anyone who would make a great Aeon. . . but. . . but. . . I'd take Uma Thurman in a pinch.

[Khephra]

5. Heck, it was hard enough to adapt it from manga in the first place

It COULD be done--but come on! The director of CATWOMAN! They should be ineligible just for making a career choice like that one.

:grr:

[LisaLynne]

4. No friggin' way!!

Then again, why am I even shocked?

[Chovexani]

6. Heh.

Personally I hate Akira, I think it's shitty, badly drawn and makes no sense (and not in the thought-provoking way that, say, Utena: Adolescence Mokushiroku is) and I've run into way too many film snobs and self-styled "Japanimation connosieurs" who know dick about anime and think Akira and Ghost in the Shell are THE SHIT (sometimes I'll run into one who also goes on and on about Evangelion, another overrated, POS anime people like that think is Very Deep). Hell, the only reason I even own a copy is because back in the dark ages pretty much the only animes you could get, and that everyone owned, was a copy of Akira, Ninja Scroll (which also sucks), Project A-Ko (which doesn't suck), and Urotsukidoji. The less said about the last, the better. (Although it never stops being fun to spring it on unsuspecting anime newbies. "Hey, wanna see some sick shit?" *pop tape in VCR, leave room*)

Maybe having Pitof direct a live action Akira will actually make it watchable. The same way Gigli or the Queen of the Damned movie was. I smell a prime opportunity for drunken MSTing with friends. At any rate, live action anime just does not work, and I've got the Iria movie, the Gundam movie, and about 30 episodes of Pretty Soldier Sailormoon to prove it. The only live action adaptation of an anime I've ever seen that was any good was a couple episodes of the live action You're Under Arrest! tv show, but the reason that worked so well was that, well it's a fun, quirky cop show and doesn't have any supernatural/sci-fi elements to it. When there's no talking cats or gratuitous henshin sequences to try and get right via the 5 dollars the budget has for CGI (PSSM, I'm looking at you), there's a lot less to fuck up. And Ian Thorpe made a cameo appearance on it, which automatically makes it cool.

I don't really care if Pitof fucks up Akira because as far as I'm concerned it's already FUBAR to begin with, but it does sort of concern me in the sense that if this thing makes even a bit of money it will lead to shitty directors making shitty live action versions of anime I actually like.

[Khephra]

7. Akira is definitely overrated in my book

I'm just astonished that a studio would actually get Pitof for this job.

Ryuhei Kitamura, Takashi Miike or Shinya Tsukamoto would be better choices.