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From the Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros., already developing an adaptation of the manga "Akira," is in the process of securing the movie rights to "Bleach." Peter Segal is in negotiations to produce, though not direct, the adaptation with Viz Media, the anime publishing house that releases the books in English in the U.S. Michael Ewing, Segal's partner at Callahan Filmworks, will also produce.Peter Segal directed 50 First Dates and the Steve Carell Get Smart movie, so... Bleach fans are totally fucked. Obviously it'll be set in America, and I expect Ichigo to be renamed Joe and have brown hair, since gingers are so unpopular these days. Hell, I doubt it'll even be called Bleach; I can't imagine any fat movie studio execs understanding or thus approving the title. Hmm, I wonder what they could rename? Anyone think "Incarnate" might work?
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Gleeman said:
If I still cared about Bleach I'd be very afraid. At least limiting it to a movie would cut out all the filler!
MAiNESET replied to Gleeman:
i agree about the filler. the fights just seem to drag on forever. im sure the main fight against Aizen at the moment started about 30-40 chapters ago.
GUMBERCULES! said:
I'm not a Bleach fan, but with all that their American fans have gone through lately, they have my pity. This has the potential to be perhaps the worst live action anime idea ever.
Hollywood, if you really have a boner for making an anime movie, get James Franco and Bruce Willis and make a fucking Cowboy Bebop movie finally!
Hanni replied to GUMBERCULES!:
Isn't there already a Cowboy Bebop movie planned? With Keanu Reeves as Spike, just because the world hates us?
Redion replied to GUMBERCULES!:
That's a good casting call. I'd watch that. Franco and Willis, I mean. FUCK YOU KEANU.
Geoff said:
Get Smart wasn't that bad, although admittedly it was carried by the awesomeness of the Rock and the 'wait, when the hell did she get that hot' factor surrounding Anne Hathaway.
But what would a Bleach movie be anyway? A fifty minute training sequence followed by a fifty-minute fight? You'd have non-fans committing ritual suicide in the audience.
[wait, what am I saying... non-fans wouldn't ever turn up for this.]
Ranchoth said:
Y'know, there's an old Russian army joke I heard awhile back...it seems the Army brass decided to issue an intelligence test to their troops, consisting of putting round and square wooden blocks through the appropriate holes in a pegboard. The testers concluded that their troops consisted of two types of people: The very smart, and the very strong.
Hollywood is very strong.
lou-bert vs. q-bert said:
Bleach is bleh. I hope the movie improves upon the material.
Arsenal said:
Too bad they won't get called Death Gods, I like protests outside the theater
Arcane replied to Arsenal:
Reapers is a catchy enough title for Americans
Monkey boy said:
Since the akira movie has been in development hell pretty much since the original animated movie came out, I'm sure it'll be decades before bleach fans have any real cause to worry.
Greymattersplat replied to Monkey boy:
I would agree...except for Avatar, or "the Last Airbender", or whatever they're calling that movie.
Now, I know NOTHING about Avatar, except that a lot of people like it and I haven't got around to seeing it yet...but I think I've heard that it's actually original, and not based on a pre-existing manga/anime/whatever, correct? Whether it is or not doesn't actually really matter so much as I just actually don't know, but from what I HAVE seen, it looks like it COULD be from an anime/manga, and if the movie version is even half as bad-ass as it really does look, then that might just be the final straw towards getting things like this (and Akira) moving once and for all. It'd be like the "Bryan Singer's X-Men" for anime movies, and suddenly boom...there's 30 in active production.
Monkey boy replied to Greymattersplat:
Avatar the last airbender is a cool show, but it's an entirely American creative production. That may have been a contributing factor in how quickly it was adapted to the big screen. But yes it looks awesome.
wotness replied to Monkey boy:
The last Airbender is indeed pretty nice. I still find it a shame that they chose to ignore the ethnicity of some characters. Especially of some of the leads.
So many people in the world and they can't find anyone who kind of looks the part and can act a little? How come Mel Gibson could pull it of with Apocalypto? They should have taken a example from him..
Monkey boy replied to wotness:
I've been watching the tv show and while there are many allusions to Asian and Inuit cultures, there is no indication that the world is not multiethnic, and the character designs are ambiguous and generic enough to get away with the cast they've chosen. I think it's a bit silly to think that just because there's a vaguely pan Asian theme to the fantasy world they've made up, the people within that world should be made up of one particular racial group.
wotness replied to Monkey boy:
True, the world might be multi-ethnic. But the Last Airbender shows the part of the world that is inspired by Asian/Inuit and such cultures. Imo, the Asian theme is not all that vague. The clothes, fighting style, houses, hairstyles and so on, are not that of a western society.
To some extend I agree that some character designs are ambigious and generic enough. Some characters are not obvious Asian looking or the like, so it is possible to play around with those.
But I still would have liked to see that, when possible, they would keep the ethnic background of a character in mind. Sokka and Katara could have been played by Hispanic or Latino kids, as example.
Monkey boy replied to wotness:
Why? Just for diversity's sake? Zuko will be played by dev patel (o slumdog millionaire) and he honestly looks pretty cool in the part. But Most of the characters don't seem particularly Hispanic or Latino. Everyone seems a bit tan I suppose.
Ghash Ironhand replied to Monkey boy:
Not to derail this but the saddest part monkeyboy is that Zuko (Patel's character) should be more japanese or chinese then Hindi, at least going by his look, Patel (And there for all evil guys in the show except for one or two) being brown doesn't add diversity but detracts from it in my opinion...
Sokka and Katara could had being played by either Latino, Middle Eastern (Whatever dark skin people that looked slightly alike and could act) or even Afro-American,considering they are both darkskinned and Katara has curly hair.
I mean, everybody is white except for the bad guys? It might not have being done on purpose but that looks racist as fuck.
gia said:
I wish you let us upload images into the comments. I'd love to share with you my Carrot Top-as-Ichigo photoshop.
GUMBERCULES! replied to gia:
Impressive skills. Next, can you photoshop Quaid in Total Recall pulling the tracking device out of his nose, but make it a Playstation Move instead? The little glowing ball looks exactly the same.
Put it out there, and I assure you, the gaming websites will use it. I'd do it myself, but lack both photoshop and photoshop skills.....
Gleeman replied to gia:
If it's ripped Carrot Top = WIN!
chudleycannonfodder replied to Gleeman:
I bet the Board is spelled B-O-R-E-D.
Izandra replied to gia:
Please don't. I like my eyes as they are and do not wish to go blind. D:
Carrot Top causes me to have nightmares.
El FRANCO said:
And of course they will have a White boy play the main character!
Well, if it's an AMERICAN remake set in AMERICA, they probably will. It's not like there'll be any reason to make the cast all Asians. Half the Gotei 13 isn't, anyway. Tousen sure as hell ain't, and neither is Aizen.
emerson999 replied to toomin:
It would be hilarious if it turned out that in the shows universe, only the Japanese got an afterlife.
Kaitune said:
Holy fuck... Just...NO...
I am not as much of a Bleach fan as I used to be (largely due to the story that keeps getting more and more WTF), but I still don't want to see it turning into another second rated Hollywood tard...
toomin said:
I really don't think any shonen manga/anime is suitable for a live-action remake, be it by Japan or anyone else. Over-the-top action + ridiculously macho sentimentality + loud anime quirks = NotAGoodCombination.
wotness replied to toomin:
I agree. There are plenty of manga/anime out there that do lend itself for adaptation. But this sort of shounen? No.
As anime and manga I already had to suspend my believe and just accept things as they are, because it is a anime/manga. But on the big screen, some of those things will just look ridiculous.
Yo said:
bleach more like blech lol am i right
coughman said:
i blame simmons
phoenixphire24 said:
I hope this dies. I love Bleach (when it's good), and I can only imagine the crap they'd do to it to make it appeal to American audiences. SIGH. They already took Cowboy Bebop, can't they leave Bleach alone?
JOE said:
Hey, they should get Gene Simmons' kid involved.
DJ Maniak replied to JOE:
Dammit, I came on here JUST to post that.
demoncat said:
one can only hope the execs at Warners manage to look at the source material before they start making the film but that is too much to ask. though one can also hope they wind up not being able to get the rights and thus spare fans another dragon ball z. and no doubt they will cast cacausins actors for most of the parts. plus the title will not be bleach but maybe soul takers or something. hope the thing winds up not happening. that warner comes up short. on this thing.
Cloudy Perspective said:
What? WHAT?!
Great,just fucking great!
Why Hollywood,why must you keep shitting on our beloved nerd properties,why?!What the hell did we ever do to you to deserve this heinousness?!
Seriously,since when did Hollywood get such a hard-on for anime?I know that there are very notable exceptions where they managed to make awesome nerd movies(looking forward to Kick-ass and Scott Pilgrim),but those weren't anime,and we've seen them fail miserably.Worse yet they just end up ruining the franchise,and that makes me really fucking sad...but on the bright side,there might be a huge chance that this movie will never happen. Oh God I hope that's the case
Selaphiel said:
I'm not worried about this.
It'll be better than the US remake of "Let the Right One In" =P
'Stater Nuts said:
The one series I think could be adapted into a U.S. movie would be Yu Yu Hakusho. Part of the premise of YYH is that Yusuke and Kuwabara actually fit into street thug stereotypes from Japan, and so they make unlikely heroes. So, for a live action version, they can make them black or hispanic.
Cloudy Perspective replied to 'Stater Nuts:
Ouch,dude that was low...
'Stater Nuts replied to Cloudy Perspective:
I am Hispanic, and would love to see a young Latin American actor take the leading role of whatever "Yusuke" would get changed to.
they key word in these movie deals is "Adaptation." Spirit Detective fighting Demons, there's nothing specifically Japanese about it. It's like when they adapt Shakespeare plays to take place in modern times.
NicoNicoDouchebag replied to 'Stater Nuts:
no, you are wrong, lurk moar plz.
FuryOfFirestorm said:
Why the fuck is it called "Bleach", anyway? Why not "Woollite" or "OxyClean"?
JB replied to FuryOfFirestorm:
HAR HAR! I"VE NEVER HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE! I sound like a dick but, every fucking time there's a bleach post someone bitches about the title. It's called google, fucking use it.
Lily412 said:
I don't care about Bleach, so this doesn't bother me too much, except that the more these American anime/manga movies actually get the green light, the more they're going to make (unless they all flop) and I'm afraid of what they'll pick up next.
Also, read the blurb more carefully: "Peter Segal is in negotiations to produce, though not direct, the adaptation with Viz Media..."
Why does it matter what movies Segal has directed? Apparently, he's in talks to produce.
Samuraiter said:
(Akira? Why are they bothering? That name only has solid meaning to fans who predate the '99 anime / manga boom, and there are not many of us left to care at this point.)
After seeing Dragonball Evolution and what it attempted – and spectacularly failed, à la Ed Wood – to do, I am curious as to why any producer would think that any anime-based live-action movie would get any bank. There are a fair number of anime fans in the U.S., but – surprise! – most of them have no money and will as soon stream a pirated copy of a movie as watch it legitimately.
Samuraiter said:
(Akira? Why are they bothering? That name only has solid meaning to fans who predate the '99 anime / manga boom, and there are not many of us left to care at this point.)
After seeing Dragonball Evolution and what it attempted – and spectacularly failed, à la Ed Wood – to do, I am curious as to why any producer would think that any anime-based live-action movie would get any bank. There are a fair number of anime fans in the U.S., but – surprise! – most of them have no money and will as soon stream a pirated copy of a movie as watch it legitimately.
Samuraiter replied to Samuraiter:
(Inadvertent double post. My apologies. Delete?)
AfterGlow said:
Shia the Beef will probably play Ichigo, Megan Fox will star as Orihime and the moron who played Goku in DBZ: Evolution will play Ishida.
Channing Tatum will play Chad and Rukia will be played by Tara Reid.
Renji was cut altogether, he was percived as too Japanese for the American audience.
JB said:
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK
Slust said:
I raged at "Warner Bros."
deadbug said:
Anyone seen the Bleach live action musical? http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/1037.html
Apparently its the 2nd Bleach musical. I wish I could find the 1st. I laughed my butt off. No Kenpachi either way, which is sad. I guess there was nobody big and bad enough to play him and sing...
Raine said:
NOOOO! For the the love of all things sacred NOOOOO! lol!
Red Hood said:
No, no, no, NO!!! I'm no fan of Bleach but why the he'll does Hollywood feel they need to take a complete and utter shit on everything good in this world. As a graduate student studying to become a film/tv writer as well as producer I am perplexed as to why anybody greenlights rhese apparent disasters in the first place. I swear to you avlittle piece of my soul dies everytime something good (wether it be a book, comic, tv show, etc.) is adapted into a film that ends up destroying what the source material has achieved. I haven't been this devastated since I heard the proposed live action Cowboy Bebop movie starring Keanu Reeves. it is times like these that I hope the world does come to an end in 2012 so that my eyes are spared the torture that will be watching these pieces of shit. Way to go US, maybe this is why the world hates us.
rickicker said:
not a bleach fan as well, but godDAMMIT, hollywood!! i'm starting to believe that a studio exec meeting sounds a little something like this:
"so, what's hot with the kids these days?"
"iunno, some shit about detergent and ghosts and swordfights"
"swordfights?"
"swordfights"
"brilliant! let's get in on sum of that! oh, and pass the cocaine!"
why can't these doped-up white-collared morons take a hint from copycats from where i live? take your "inspiration" from the damn thing and make something new out of it, instead of force-localizing something that would CLEARLY raise some curious eyebrows. i mean, really, how hard could it be?
swords? check! ghosts? check! paranormal backstory? check! quirky protagonist with dark undertones? check! badass big bad? check! plot to take over the world? check! shit blowing up? check MATE!! now let's call it "Spirit Warriors" or "Necro Saviors" and we're off to shoot the first reel!
somebody at WB cut me a fucking check!
P.S: sorry if it's a double post, the first attempt gave me an error message -_-;
Karma said:
They couldn't POSSIBLY fuck Bleach up more than it already fucks itself up, to begin with.
Bleach absolutely fucking sucks. It has precisely zero merit of any kind, to it. It is even more sickeningly loathesome than Naruto. That is a level of wretchedness that deserves stunned applause at how ANYTHING can manage to be worse than Naruto, but Bleach wins that prize many times over.
I dare say that anything that an American movie, or even.... hell... a Turkish or Brazillian-made "film" could stand to be nothing but an improvement. Just so long as they removed all of the actual characters, and replace them with different characters, change the plot and entire concept to something radically different, and leave no names the same... as to wash away the failure of actual Bleach away from the production, and then changes it's name... then it might have potential.
But making a film based on Bleach is like turning Vomit Soup into a Turd Casserole.
Jared said:
If this was One Piece I'd be worried. But Bleach? Who gives a fuck about Bleach? The manga is already beyond a joke (spoiler: Aizen planned everything that ever happened).
NorthSteve said:
The only possible good thing about this would be if Zoe Saldana played Yoruichi.
That is all.
NicoNicoDouchebag said:
I don't really care that much about Detergent to rage, but one question remains--why? Detergent is so episodic that it's impossible to adapt into a live action film.
Eh. It'll probably get canned, like the Live-Action Eva movie did.
Also, haha, Narutards are going to get so butthurt that their show wasn't picked to become a live action movie.
