Live Action Akira to be PG-13

[Max Payne]

So I take you didn't like Batman Begins then?

Why would you say that?

Why wouldn't I like one of the few Batman films that has been as close to the source material without being a complete ripoff?

 

[Strangelove]

You're really surprised Hollywood has its head up its ass and doesn't know what target demographic its shooting for? Really?

Of course it knows.

It's kids with lots of pocket money, right?

 

[Charles Xavier]

Why would you say that?

Why wouldn't I like one of the few Batman films that has been as close to the source material without being a complete ripoff?

No worries. Just having a little joke. Considering your name, it would be surprising to hear you say you hated the new Batman. Would be ironic, to say the least. lol

 

[Max Payne]

I do hate his voice and Nolan's retarded inclination to stick to what he calls "reality".

 

[Charles Xavier]

I do hate his voice and Nolan's retarded inclination to stick to what he calls "reality".

You mean Bale's raspy voice? Bah...tell me about it.

 

[Max Payne]

Raspy? He sounds like he has fucking lung cancer

 

[Charles Xavier]

Raspy? He sounds like he has fucking lung cancer

That's certainly the joke of the week!

 

[Max Payne]

It's a shame that I'm not joking :/

 

[looneymoon]

Granted, remakes and adaptations can actually be good if handled properly. The Departed/Dawn of the Dead/3:10 to Yuma/The Crazies are some examples that succeed imo. But that's just a handful from a majority of fail.

but what with the change of setting/characters to a bunch of white guys in New York, mediocre action movie director, dumbing down of the plot... the PG-13 rating is really just icing on the cake.

In fact, I won't be surprised if it turns out not to different from this:

 

[Makoeyes987]

EVERYONE STOP POSTING. MISATO'S WON THE THREAD. GAME OVER.

 

[Ghost X]

I think if they made a full-length parody of an americanised Akira, it'd rake in more money than the original and the hollywood remake combined.

 

[Cthulhu]

Yes.

So, does mutating semi-Jesi fall under PG-13?

Does rape when done off-screen, accompanied by saxophone music, fall under PG-13?



Wait, why is this topic about a possible PG-13 rating and not about a real life adaptation? . I'd really rather want to see a proper anime version of the manga, full-length, full-detail. With color though.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Moar motocycles!

 

[Ghost X]

Apparently Australian censors struggled (but succeeded) in giving the Karate Kid remake a PG-rating. If that movie has more violence than this Akira ends up having (not that I'll be watching it), I'll have to laugh.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

In your own words, why wouldn't a G rated Evangelion work (not saying it's a decision I'd make, mind you)?

Have you seen Evangelion?

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

While I do expect this to suck, there's nothing inherently wrong with relocating the setting to the U.S. Why?

Because an atmosphere of economic uncertainty, alienated youth, and public distrust toward a beauracratic mess of a government are more fundamental to both the fictional setting and the real-world society's context than atomic bomb imagery.

As long as bungling tools aren't in charge, a remake of "Akira" set in the U.S. has plenty of potential relevance to an American audience.

 

[Makoeyes987]

While I do expect this to suck, there's nothing inherently wrong with relocating the setting to the U.S. Why?

Because an atmosphere of economic uncertainty, alienated youth, and public distrust toward a beauracratic mess of a government are more fundamental to both the fictional setting and the real-world society's context than atomic bomb imagery.

As long as bungling tools aren't in charge, a remake of "Akira" set in the U.S. has plenty of potential relevance to an American audience.

Oh, Tres. You really think Hollywood is thinking this out as sophisticatedly as you are? If they were, they wouldn't be bothering with piggybacking on a twenty year old movie in the first place. They'd be doing original content.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

While I do expect this to suck, there's nothing inherently wrong with relocating the setting to the U.S. Why?

Because an atmosphere of economic uncertainty, alienated youth, and public distrust toward a beauracratic mess of a government are more fundamental to both the fictional setting and the real-world society's context than atomic bomb imagery.

As long as bungling tools aren't in charge, a remake of "Akira" set in the U.S. has plenty of potential relevance to an American audience.

But then it isn't Akira. It's something else.

 

[Tetsujin]

But then it isn't Akira. It's something else.

This.

The story has a setting in a specific location and characters of a certain nationality and that's just how it is.
If people feel that's something the audience can't relate to, then DON'T FUCKING ADAPT IT.

 

[Strangelove]

They could just finance a big budget Japanese production, set in Japan with a Japanese cast that would be faithful to the original story.

But then people might have to read subtitles, and there wouldn't be enough white people in it for audiences to relate to

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

i'd love to know how the 'white people won't relate' guys felt like when slumdog millionare won a ton of awards and was pretty commercially successful.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

and there wouldn't be enough white people in it for audiences to relate to

Being black, this is extra hilarious.

 

[Max Payne]

But then it isn't Akira. It's something else.

I don't get what's so hard to understand about this.

I really don't/

 

[Ghost X]

God forbid the citizens of the USA become educated of cultures that exist outside of it .

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Chinese people exist outside the takeaway