Anime

[Zoetrope]

The IFMagazine.com [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]entertainment[/color][/color] website reports that film producer Erwin Stoff (The Matrix, A Scanner Darkly) is developing a live-action adaptation of Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop multi-genre action anime series for Fox. Stoff told the website that the project is "in the really early stages" since the parties "just signed it the other day." Shinichiro Watanabe's original anime follows the motley crew of the spaceship Bebop as it travels throughout the solar system in search of the next job. Stoff promised "a real degree of faithfulness," and added, “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A Scanner Darkly, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.”

So, there's this, Dragonball Z, Spielberg wanting to do Ghost in the Shell, DiCaprio wanting to do Akira and Tobey Maguire wanting to do Robotech.

What's people thoughts on these live action adaptions?

[Z Virus]

DBZ will probably turn out to be utter garbage but hold some sort of cult following at least. The problem with anime is alot of it leaves the watcher to piece together what is going on or what goes on afterwards. Convoluted plots are not uncommon, explaining things, why things exist, are rare. I dont think transitions into actual film, despite still being real storytelling, would work. Audiences expect a certain something from films, and I dont think anime does that (why else does not everyone "get" anime and consider it simply to be cartoons )