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Warner Bros. plans to make a Bleach movie
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:25 pm
by Roy Mustang
atlanime wrote:The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reports that the American film studio Warner Brothers "is in the process of securing the movie rights to" Tite Kubo's Bleach supernatural action manga series. Director Peter Segal (Get Smart, The Longest Yard, Anger Management) is lining himself up to produce, but not direct. The manga's North American publisher Viz Media and Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing would also produce the proposed project.
The manga follows a 15-year-old boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who becomes a Soul Reaper — a "Shinigami" or "God of Death" who protects humans from the "Hollow" spirits that prey on them. Shueisha publishes the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan, and Studio Pierrot has been adapting the manga on television and in movie theaters since 2004. The Adult Swim programming block of America's Cartoon Network and Canada's YTV channel have been running the anime.
Warner Brothers has already acquired the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note supernatural suspense manga, which — like Bleach — is published by Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan and by Viz Media in North America. Along with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company, Warner Brothers is also developing adaptations of Yoshiaki Kawajiri and MADHOUSE's Ninja Scroll action anime film and Katsuhiro Otomo and Kodansha's Akira science-fiction manga. Viz set up an office in Hollywood in 2008 to promote Viz's properties to Hollywood interests.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:27 pm
by Mr. Hat'n'Clogs
Interesting...That could either be decent or awful...
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:33 pm
by Atria35
Oh, no. They ruined Dragonball, now they want to trash Bleach?! Just.... no. Even though I don't personally like these series, I still think that they should be treated with a certain amount of respect.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:29 pm
by rocklobster
They did manage to do Speed Racer right.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:13 pm
by bigsleepj
Nadia (post: 1383440) wrote:Well, I wonder which anime is next...
Trigun, with Jim Carrey as Vash the Stampede and Zac Ephron as Wolfwood.
....it can happen! Runaway!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:17 pm
by ich1990
This is actually a pretty good match up. Bleach is practically Hollywood on paper anyways, so why not make a movie out of it?
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:41 pm
by Bobtheduck
rocklobster (post: 1383403) wrote:They did manage to do Speed Racer right.
Yes, they did. Wachowski brothers to direct? May as well. The matrix movies were basicaly anime as it was, so Warner should just use them for all their anime movies.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:58 pm
by ShiroiHikari
Why, God? Why?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:56 pm
by Blitzkrieg1701
If they stick to adapting the early stories of Ichigo and Rukia playing ghostbusters, there could probably be a decent movie to be made there. On the other hand, if they actually try to cram one of the longer arcs into a single film... well, the odds of success will decrease somewhat.
That said, I'll wait until this thing actually managed to claw it's way into production to worry about whether or not it'll actually be any good. Remember, a lot of the Hollywood adaptations of anime currently in development have been in development a LOOOONG time. (I mean, the actually mention the Akira movie, and how long has THAT been languishing?)
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:21 am
by MightiMidget
I am a bit apprehensive about this, but at the same time excited. It will be interesting to see how they would try to do it, even if they do it wrong. Either or, I'll go see it (by myself I'm sure). =)
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:14 am
by Nate
Atria35 wrote:They ruined Dragonball, now they want to trash Bleach?!
>implying Bleach is good enough that it can be ruined
>implying Tite Kubo didn't already ruin Bleach with his retarded writing
>implying Hollywood could possibly make Bleach any worse than it already is
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:46 am
by MightiMidget
Nate (post: 1383730) wrote:>implying Bleach is good enough that it can be ruined
>implying Tite Kubo didn't already ruin Bleach with his retarded writing
>implying Hollywood could possibly make Bleach any worse than it already is
However "good" and "entertaining" can be two entirely different things.
Bleach's ridiculousness is what makes it fun, at least to me. They could ruin it via movie by making it excessively crude, trying to make it serious, maybe even trying to make it "powerful and good." It's silly fun, and messing with that is what could ruin it. . .
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:19 pm
by Whitefang
The special effects definitely have some potential, and it would be a good treat for fans, but I still don't understand the point in making anime into live action film.
As long as Hinamori is in it, though, I will go see it!
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:37 pm
by Hohenheim
I might see it (if it ever actually comes out of course), but it'll depend on the reviews it gets. Nevertheless, I don't have a good feeling about this...
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:24 pm
by Hana Ryuuzaki
[font="century gothic"]Never thought I'd use this, but...
Son, I am disappoint. :I
On a serious note, this just seems very... iffy, at the best. >< We'll just have to see.[/font]
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:40 pm
by Atria35
Nate (post: 1383730) wrote:>implying Bleach is good enough that it can be ruined
>implying Tite Kubo didn't already ruin Bleach with his retarded writing
>implying Hollywood could possibly make Bleach any worse than it already is
Touche. However, I never said it was good- merely that they have a history of making bad movies of anime series. Regardless, I have to say, while I though it started out as a decent shounen title, it's quickly devolved into filler. And.... more filler. Which means that the outlook of this film is quite drear.