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NEWS: Star Blazers Goes Hollywood


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GATSU



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:20 pm Reply with quote
BTW, here's an old script review.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:35 pm Reply with quote
I never watched Star Blazers, so I don't know if this is good or bad...
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:54 pm Reply with quote
If done well, the first season would make an excellent 2-2 1/2 movie along the lines of the better Star Wars and Star Trek movies... I imagine there'll be some major costume redesigns outside of Captain Avatar though, since the old star fleet outfits are a bit too 70's by now. That and the yamato will probably look way more "futuristic". But hopefully it's done well and portrays Desslok as the great villain he is, rather than a shallow caricature.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:44 pm Reply with quote
I'm not even going to pretend that I'm excited about this. If this is even remotely successful then Hollywood is gonna start greenlighting remakes of anime back and forth. Just like when The Ring was successful and suddenly dozens of remakes of Japanese horror movies were coming out, and just about all of them sucked. (including The Ring)
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:38 pm Reply with quote
guyverfanboy wrote:
I never watched Star Blazers, so I don't know if this is good or bad...


If they follow anything in that script (the crew being a bunch of mutineers, the name changes of the characters and the ship, the absence of Avatar, and the addition of a sister for Derek Wildstar), then it is going to suck. Badly.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:51 pm Reply with quote
The remakes led to the original being on dvd, so it's not so bad.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:07 pm Reply with quote
Romuska wrote:
I'm not even going to pretend that I'm excited about this. If this is even remotely successful then Hollywood is gonna start greenlighting remakes of anime back and forth. Just like when The Ring was successful and suddenly dozens of remakes of Japanese horror movies were coming out, and just about all of them sucked. (including The Ring)


Just be glad a Japanese movie studio isn't doing a live action remake of it. They'll stick in aidoru who weren't even conceived when the show was at the height of its popularity and use the movie as a vehicle to make a talentless tarento a household name instead of telling a good story. Just look at Devilman... Mad
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:33 pm Reply with quote
Hey, you never know. It might be good.

And perhaps Hollywood may just do a live-action Urotsukidoji movie. Oh, that will definitely happen in the next ten years.
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Grimmstone



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:30 pm Reply with quote
If any action anime is made live action, I'd rather it be done by Hollywood. The space battles would have the potential to look like the Sci-Fi equivalent of an LotR battle. If done by a Japanese studio, it's going to look like Playstation 2 graphics....and they'd probably give that idiot "Bobbii" a part in it too.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:26 pm Reply with quote
Grimmstone wrote:
If any action anime is made live action, I'd rather it be done by Hollywood.


That said. Which of these two "directors" would you want to helm this film?

Michael Bay or Uwe Boll?
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Pop-Art Samurai



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:29 pm Reply with quote
Michael Bay, without question. He at least makes films that look like they have a budget, canbe fun to watch if in the right mood and brings perhaps a modicum of style to the proceedings. Boll has no talent whatsoever, his movies look cheap and are downright painful to watch at any given time.

But if I'm not mistaken, Bay is doing Transformers which takes him out of the picture. How about Alex Proyas or John Woo?
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crazydumbek



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:47 pm Reply with quote
Does this mean that Ben Affleck stars as Derek Wildstar? He totally rocked in Phantoms.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:52 am Reply with quote
Hah, I'm already planning the costume I'm gonna make and wear Cool.

Wonder if we'll see this anytime soon though, considering how long Battle Angel Alita is gonna take to come out, and that was announced seemingly ages ago. Yeah yeah, dif directors and such, but still... Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:39 am Reply with quote
Alter User Kazuma wrote:
If done well, the first season would make an excellent 2-2 1/2 movie along the lines of the better Star Wars and Star Trek movies...


This reminds me that many fans have speculated that "Star Blazers" was a source of inspiration for "Babylon 5" creator J. Michael Straczynski for the spin-off series "Crusade".

I have the "Star Blazers" first season DVD collection, and admitantly, some parts of it didn't age very well, and the English dub doesn't help (voice acting actually isn't bad, but the dialogue is sometimes plain laughable). The Yamato Movies DVD collection, with the original dub and English subs, demonstrates the franchise's stronger elements, as a larger-than-life heroic space opera (as opposed to the gritty seriousness of the war-drama presented in "Gundam").
Also highly recomemded is the documentary DVD "Space Battleship Yamato: The Making of an Anime Legend", which Voyager released last year. You can check my review at:

http://revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=2931
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:45 am Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
BTW, here's an old script review.
I know that script was done in '97 but if they stick to it this will be a right dogs breakfast. I sincerely hope they scrap this and either stay true to the original, or not do it at all. Rolling Eyes BTW Star Blazers was the first anime that I ever saw. back in the 70's, though I didn't know it as "anime" then.
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