Current Events > What anime series would you like remade as a Hollywood movie?

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Detective Conan. Teenage super detective gets turned into a child by a criminal organisation; solves murders and mysteries while keeping his true identity a secret. Uses all sorts of gadgets given to him by his professor friend.
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Pokemon
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None.
Either because something is going to be heavily altered that it doesn't even resemble the anime or they take out some ideas in the original anime to make the movie adaptation more westernized.
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Afro Samurai
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Black Lagoon

sailor moon. but i get casted as sailor mercury.

if the movie takes from the manga and not the anime, its totally doable.
theres 12 volumes, versus 200+ episodes.
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Darkrobotisback posted...

or they take out some ideas in the original anime to make the movie adaptation more westernized.

This is what I don't like about Hollywood movie adaptations of anime. So if I were picking an anime for this, I'd pick an anime that's already pretty westernized even in anime form, like Black Lagoon, Michiko & Hatchin, or The Reflection. The less Japan-inspired stuff that Hollywood can get confused about and replace, the better.
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As if a live action western adaptation would ever work.
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Zack_Attackv1 posted...

As if a live action western adaptation would ever work.

Which is why I said remade. Many anime has elements that would appeal to regular movie goers but keeping all the Japanese culture references would put them off.

That said, Hollywood has a habit of changing things that would still have worked well if they had stayed accurate to the source. So draw the line in the middle somewhere. I've not seen Dragon Ball Evolution, but I heard it changes way too much about the characters to put them in a real world setting when a more fantasy world setting would have sufficed.
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Big O
Get Del Toro to direct it.
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Monster. Probably the only anime I can think of that could be adapted into something thrilling without losing anything in the process.
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Cowboy Bebop, Shinsekai Yori or Steins;Gate

I feel like anything ridiculous like Code Geass or Fate/Zero probably won't translate well to live action. MAYBE Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, but only if they tone down the Elric Brothers/Armstrong/etc ability to cause earth spikes and shit to erupt from the ground.
Well, they could pull it off if they had billions for a budget and a genius to do the camera angles right
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pinky0926 posted...

Monster. Probably the only anime I can think of that could be adapted into something thrilling without losing anything in the process.

yea, came in to say Monster.

I also think that Steins;Gate could be adapted to the live action pretty well.
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Popcorn_Fairy posted...

Black Lagoon

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Shinsekai Yuri.
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GiftedACIII posted...

Shinsekai Yuri.

that name just wouldn't attract American audiences regardless of what the story was about.
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Bass_X0 posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

Shinsekai Yuri.

that name just wouldn't attract American audiences regardless of what the story was about.

From the New World.
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Mankitsu Happening
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Bass_X0 posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

Shinsekai Yuri.

that name just wouldn't attract American audiences regardless of what the story was about.

From the New World might
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Maoyu just so I could see Christina Hendricks in a Maou costume

Monster directed by Scorsese
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One Piece.

One movie per saga (East Blue, Baroque Works, Skypeia, etc.)
Ignore the Straw Hats backstories and just focus on the plot
Get rid of Devil Fruits to make them more appealing to family audiences (or rename them Cursed Fruits)
Focus on CGI, not practical effects
No Okamas
Make Luffy a high school student with a crush on Nami (needs a romance to keep the ladies interested)