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satsugaikaze:
It just seems odd to choose a list of the whitest of white guys and still put the names "Tetsuo" and "Kaneda" in the same sentence.
In fact, it feels odd to call the movie "Akira" when the setting is in "New Manhattan".
I guess that also means that if they actually adapted it, say, ala the way Scorcese adapted Infernal Affairs, I wouldn't have as much of an issue with it, but as it stands it just feels so culturally off.
KharBevNor:
There are so many questions.
Like, 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? Like their own government? Because that changes the plot quite a lot. Like the relationship between the Colonel and the Americans, how is that going to be handled?
I mean, don't get me wrong, the idea of a new adaptation of Akira has some legs. The Manga is a monumental work, six volumes of about five hundred pages each, beautifully drawn and well plotted. The anime film, though excellent (particularly in terms of soundtrack and visual flair) Only really takes the story to the end of the second book (then ranges a few fragments of the third and fourth in) and leaves it all rather mangled, which is a large source of the 'WTF factor'. The story also benefits a lot from the deepened characterisations of people like The Colonel and Joker (who barely even appears and doesn't speak in the film), Lady Miyazako (who also barely appears, as a completely different character), Tetsuo's sinister aide-de-campe, and of course Chiyoko.
But this is going to be shitting dreadful.
The Seldom Killer:
I have to concur, any film that casts people like Pattinson and Timberlake is very clearly trying to release to the broadest possible audience, otherwise known as the mainstream. The American movie industry has regularly fallen down when trying to deliver Science Fiction to the mainstream with other than the simplest of scenarios and the same can be said of extra-national cultural storylines. Attempting both with what I would guess is a percieved need to pursue heavy simplification is unlikely to be successful from a quality point of view.
It's a pity because I suspect that the American audience is a lot smarter than the industry gives them credit for. That said, the fiasco of The Madness of King George does call for much psyducking.
KharBevNor:
What Fiasco? You mean the name change?
Method of Madness:
Wait, what the shit? New Manhattan? So they're saying Manhattan was nuked to shit instead of Tokyo? That's...interesting.
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