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Inlander:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 25 Mar 2011, 05:30 ---if this is going to be based on the manga, rather than the film, who's going to replace the Americans (who turn up in book three or four and start trying to assassinate Akira and Tetsuo before etc. etc. spoilers etc.)? Is it just going to be...the Americans?
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They'll be English, of course! Honestly Khar, it's as if you'd never watched a Hollywood movie that was made in the last, say, thirty years.
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 25 Mar 2011, 06:33 ---What Fiasco? You mean the name change?
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Yes, yes I do.
KharBevNor:
Supposedly, it's a myth that they changed the title because Americans would think 'The Madness of George III' was a sequel. Apparently the reason for the switch to 'The Madness of King George' was to sell the fact that George II was a king up-front, though given when George III reigned you'd have though most educated Americans would have some idea who he was.
As for why switch the medium, I think you could fairly argue that the original film didn't do the plot or the overarching themes of the manga justice. That's no reason to remake it live action of course. Its natural format for the screen would be a six-episode high-budget OVA, or a 13 episode series. Anything longer than that might be pushing it, but there's parts particularly of the 3rd to 5th books that need to be quite still and atmospheric. That said the entire 6th book is mostly one big hyper-mutating trans-dimensional punch-up, so...
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 29 Mar 2011, 01:31 ---Supposedly, it's a myth that they changed the title because Americans would think 'The Madness of George III' was a sequel. Apparently the reason for the switch to 'The Madness of King George' was to sell the fact that George II was a king up-front, though given when George III reigned you'd have though most educated Americans would have some idea who he was.
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Wasn't aware of the urban myth. I'd always understood that the change was to confirm for American audiences that the film was about a king because exits on early screenings reported that they hadn't been aware of this going in. Apparently any promotional imagery such as trailers and the like weren't sufficient. It seems rather incongruous that you'd go to a film without any forewarning and come out unpleasantly surprised that it centred around a member of European royalty. Still, some people were even caught off guard by Snakes On A Plane so maybe not that surprising.
Perhaps the studio will need to change the name of Akira to something like "Japanese Headfuck Conspiracy Post-Apocalyptic Wierdness So STFU If You Haven't Seen The Animated Version You Clueless Fucks".
KharBevNor:
I would bet like, £100 (Monopoly) on them renaming it 'Adam' or something.
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