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Any word on Akira?

Tom said:
This would take a serious budget and a director with incredible vision, but I have always thought a live-action "Nausicaa" film based on the storyline of the Miyazaki's anime could work. It's message is probably more relevant, needed, and understandable now than ever before.
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I´ll vote for that!
 
Tom said:
This would take a serious budget and a director with incredible vision, but I have always thought a live-action "Nausicaa" film based on the storyline of the Miyazaki's anime could work.
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never seen it, should I have?
 
I'd say that is Miyazaki has made it, then yes, you should see it. His stuff is wonderful. Naussica is great, but I still think my favourite is Laputa.

Graeme
 
Live action Akira - I hope they keep the original score

Matrix vs GITS - ghost was part of their pitch, and there was so much more in the
film than just GITS swipes, I think its more like reverence. They owe more to W.Gibson.

Wing Commander - oh boy now I feel old!!!! That game was 1990.
 
Brandon said:
never seen it, should I have?
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Like Graeme said, you cannot go wrong with Miyazaki.

I highly suggest:

Nausicaa
Mononoke
Laputa
Spirited Away
Porco Rosso

He also produced and had a big part in making a Ghibli film called "Whisper of the Heart" which is one of the best animated movies ever made, IMO.
 
One of my favorites is Howl's Moving Castle. Except for the last 5minutes. It almost ruined it for me.

I would highly recommend Howl's moving Castle and then just stopping before the final ending. :D

Porco Rosso is one of his least popular films but maybe my favorite.

However you look at it you can't go wrong with Miyazaki.

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I'm not certain Nausica would be financially prohibitive. If you shot it similarly to Sky Captain I think it could be delivered pretty inexpensively. You've got two main areas to create: The Town and the Forest. The forest could be very reusable as far as digital assets go. Lots of matte paintings. All of the aerial stuff wouldn't be terribly expensive either. I imagine you could probably find a good proxy town in the alps somewhere.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
But for bringing a Japanese Anime feature into the live-action realm, Akira is a good choice, IMO. If I ever get the opportunity to do such a thing (just fantasizing here), I'd want to do Nausicaa: The Wind Rider, but that's just me.
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:) :thumbsup::thumbsup: :)
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
I'm not certain Nausica would be financially prohibitive. If you shot it similarly to Sky Captain I think it could be delivered pretty inexpensively. You've got two main areas to create: The Town and the Forest. The forest could be very reusable as far as digital assets go. Lots of matte paintings. All of the aerial stuff wouldn't be terribly expensive either. I imagine you could probably find a good proxy town in the alps somewhere.
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I think with both Nausicaa and Berserk, you would not want to go 100% digital backgrounds, like 300. I think Sky Captain was essentially all digital, too, right? I've only seen parts of it.

Instead, I would use real people and real sets, backed by some CGI, or even some old-school fake skies, like David used on Manure. It would be sort of a magical, heightened reality. And of course all the creatures and demons, etc, would be CGI.
 
I think Nausicaa would be a far better choice for live action than even Akira. I don't think a style like Sky Captain or 300 would suit it well. Both styles are very restrictive, to the point where viewers can often feel claustrophobic just by watching the film. I think it worked well for 300, but not for Sky Captain. IMO, Nausicaa needs a predominantly live-action, real environment treatment with a good mix of practical and CG FX. I'm thinking more Lord of the Rings. While LOTR was pretty grand at times, I think a film like Nausicaa could still be done on a realistic budget. The real issue is keeping the studios from butchering it.
 
Yeah, and let's face it, the technology has improved even since LOTR, where you could make the CGI extensions of sets even more perfect.

I think with either Berserk or Nausicaa, you would want to stick very close the anime stories, but toss in a few new things so that even hardcore fans could get something new from the live action films. With Berserk, for example, a lot of the boss battles are just random and could be replaced with anything that advanced the core story in a similar fashion. Although I admit, with Nausicaa, the anime is so close to perfection right now that you would be hard-pressed to improve on it, even the little vignettes.
 
I agree it should mostly be live action--which is why I recommend finding a proxy valley with a matte extension for the desert.

But where are you going to find an epic magical forest? :D The trees are so large all you would be able to shoot practically is the grass under their feet. My least favorite part of LOTR was Lothlorean. It felt very much like a set the entire time.
 
Yeah, trees would have to be practical sets (very expensive) or partially practical, partially CGI, or all CGI. I guess it would all depend on the setups. I'm sure there's a way to do it.

Makes me think of Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain. An example of how NOT to do it would be his opening scenes in the "dark jungle," which were filmed on a soundstage on the cheap and look absolutely crappy and unconvincing. Some of the later stuff, like Jackman at the tree of life, looked magical. Definitely a heightened reality.

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And Darren did a lot of these shots using old-school optical trickery, with hardly any CGI.
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
But where are you going to find an epic magical forest? :D The trees are so large all you would be able to shoot practically is the grass under their feet. My least favorite part of LOTR was Lothlorean. It felt very much like a set the entire time.
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I'd start with Redwood Forest... And then CG it up... But that's just me. I agree on LOTR and lothlorean, but every production has its limits.
 
imagine the sets or CGI for the underground "clean" forests in Nausicaa.

so many epic opportunities for great visuals. and we haven't talked about the glider! :w00t:
 
oh, lol sorry about that typo. :violent:

omg, i'm loving these new smilies!
 
My opinion regarding live-action anime remakes:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

The Matrix showed that a humble "inspired by" can be much more effective than an unimaginative "remake of."
 
Derek Van Gorder said:
My opinion regarding live-action anime remakes:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

The Matrix showed that a humble "inspired by" can be much more effective than an unimaginative "remake of."
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excellent point, I completely agree.
 
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