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Blood: The Last Vampire - Coming to a Theater Near You?
Filed under: Animation », Foreign Language », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Deals », Fandom », Remakes and Sequels », Cinematical Indie »
With the ever persistent and popular comic book-to-film craze American cinema has been experiencing the past several years, anyone with half a brain has been expecting an eventually slide over into manga and anime titles for motion picture adaptation. A few properties have been purchased, and a few rumors have circulated; no doubt the first few stones in a very possible avalanche; and today another stone joins the slowly increasing trickle. The word on the block is Billy Kong (of Crouching Tiger fame among others) has signed on to produce a live-action version of the popular anime film Blood: The Last Vampire. He plans to shoot the movie in a mix of languages, with English likely featuring preeminent. This will dovetail with a recently announced anime TV series based on the same film.Typically, I'm really hesitant of any suggestion to turn an anime into live-action cinema. They frequently ultra-stylish animation just doesn't tend to translate well into reality, and we here in America have a pretty terrible understanding of the general storytelling and cinematography stylings of the East. However, given that Kong is attached to this film and not a proto-typical American producer*, I think it has a pretty decent chance of translating to live action. To be honest, though, I'm not really a big Blood fan to begin with -- but I'm sure I'll give it a watch just to see how it turns out.
*Don't get me wrong, I love American action as well.
Lindsay Lohan is Sailor Moon?
Filed under: Action », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », RumorMonger », Fandom », Scripts », Comic/Superhero/Geek »
Here's one from deep in the files of "Dear God, please let this never happen," although I already envision
an army of rabid fanboys beating a path to my door to kill me for saying that. The story comes from the Japanese
magazine called Animage, who report Fox has claimed the rights to Sailor Moon, and hopes to make a
live-action, English langauage version of the popular story. And that's not all! The magazine further reports Fox's
desire to enlist the writing/directing talents of geek kingpin Joss
Whedon, and the acting ... erhem ... talents of Lindsay Lohan,
presumably for the title character.Now I know a lot of you out there are excited by the idea of Lindsay Lohan in a magical school-girl costume, and I know you are already enraged at the idea of anyone suggesting it shouldn't happen, so please don't destroy me in your righteous fanboy wrath. Frankly, I just think there are a dozen or so other anime titles I'd much rather see on the silver screen before Sailor Moon. I don't have anything against it, per se, I just wouldn't put it on the top of the list if we're talking about anime being turned into American film.
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