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Nov 11, 2010 11:44 PM
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According to Hollywood Reporter, US pay TV company Startz is developing a live action remake of anime Noir. The executive producers are Sam Raimi ("Spider-Man"), Robert Tapert and Stephen Lightfoot, who also writes the script.

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Hmm, not sure if want...
Nov 12, 2010 12:06 AM
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So many ways this could go wrong. But on the other hand, Sam Raimi...
Nov 12, 2010 12:09 AM
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That new ...
Nov 12, 2010 1:05 AM
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I think this will be very interesting :)
Nov 12, 2010 1:23 AM
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its possibility that noir anime can be great movie cos it dont have Kamehameha or Bankai
Nov 12, 2010 2:00 AM
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Yeah ! Another great anime that will be made into random shitty live movie by americans... *sigh*
Nov 12, 2010 3:20 AM
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This is going to be shit but I don't care-- I've been waiting more than 5 years for a live-action Noir.
Nov 12, 2010 3:25 AM
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Fuck no.
Nov 12, 2010 3:29 AM
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Noir is one of my favorites so even though I liked Sam Raimi's directing in the Spider-man movies, he BETTER not ruin it!
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Just the thought of the epicness that is Noir being defiled by something like Live Action makes me sick. :x

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Nov 12, 2010 4:22 AM

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Sam Raimi is cool. Maybe this live action can be good.
Nov 12, 2010 4:59 AM

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It can work, the anime isn't too fantastical to be a believable live-action production. You'd think this would air on Lifetime Oxygen though with all the dead men in suits that are going to show up.
Nov 12, 2010 5:16 AM

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Let's hope it won't end up like crap like DB was.
Nov 12, 2010 5:33 AM

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i hope it turns out good, but with sam's recent incarnations like drag me to hell and spiderman 3, i'm actually kinda scared.
Nov 12, 2010 6:13 AM

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I am the only one who is excited over this news?

I don't expect it to be the exact thing as the original though.

btw forgive my ignorance is this a movie or a tv series?
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Nov 12, 2010 6:36 AM
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sounds interesting, noir is the kind of thing that could definitely work as live action. but I wont hold my breath
Nov 12, 2010 7:09 AM

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luinthoron said:
So many ways this could go wrong. But on the other hand, Sam Raimi...


My thought exactly.

Algazero said:
i hope it turns out good, but with sam's recent incarnations like drag me to hell and spiderman 3, i'm actually kinda scared.


Oh come on, Drag me to hell was a brillant movie.
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Nov 12, 2010 7:17 AM

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not intrested anyway
Nov 12, 2010 7:29 AM
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well another live action anime version well at least it NOT a movie version.

as for tv series hmm well give finish watching it well as long it stay well like in the anime version then it's all good.
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Nov 12, 2010 7:34 AM

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I actually laughed out loud when I read this.
Not having high hopes for that. Maybe also because I didn't particularly like the anime ^^.
I probably regret this post by now.
Nov 12, 2010 7:36 AM

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Watching it for the LULz
Nov 12, 2010 7:59 AM

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Some sources say it will be a TV drama. Could it be as bad as the Hipotetic movie will surely be? The answer is obvious.
Nov 12, 2010 8:20 AM
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Something tells me this is bound to fail...
Nov 12, 2010 9:13 AM

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Sam Raimi, the master of making stuff that doesn't put me to sleep, adapting Noir, an anime that came close to putting me to sleep MANY times? Sold.

Besides, Noir could easily work in live-action. I mean, the anime series itself wasn't that animated to begin with...
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live action and sam raimi

this could work
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Nov 12, 2010 9:42 AM

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I think Noir is a very underrated anime, it had great music, and a pretty good story which unfortunately did not come across as well as it should have because they were stuck with an idiotic studio which didn't show blood...
Nov 12, 2010 10:53 AM

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Nov 12, 2010 11:14 AM

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This could be good. It is an anime that can be made into a realistic live action series. I think there are better series they could do (Monster) but I will definitely check this out.
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I think Noir is a very underrated anime, it had great music, and a pretty good story which unfortunately did not come across as well as it should have because they were stuck with an idiotic studio which didn't show blood...


It's called censorship.


And don't get too excited about Sam Rami. Oh yes I think he is a fine director, but that's just that, a director. Assuming this is a TV series of some kind (being Starz) Rami is the Executive Producer. Generally in the world of Television the Executive Producer is the one who charges the project (like a chief director would on an anime)

But 9/10 times the executive producer is the one who actually created the series to begin with. When someone like Sam Raimi or Jerry Bruckheimer Executive produces a series they really get a network interested and see to it that the polite episode is made and after that they don't do anything with the series.
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hmmm, could awesome if done well
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Noir is one of the few animes that I think can have a GOOD American movie adaptation.
Nov 12, 2010 1:32 PM

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Have yet to watch the anime, but this DO NOT want.
They will most probably change a lot of the plot as well its Sam Raimi after all...
Nov 12, 2010 2:30 PM

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This actually might not go so poorly, and it won't be because of Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Those two raped pillaged and burned Legend of the Seeker to the ground with Disney ABC's help.

It has the possibility of going well, because it is being done by Starz (who've been doing pretty great with shows like Spartacus Blood & Sand, and the adaptation of Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth).

Starz will have no huge incentive to dramatically alter the content like a syndicated television network would, or have to dumb down content for a pg rating like a major movie studio dealing with an anime would.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, but not necessarily hold my breath. I just hope they keep Kirika as a young Japanese girl.
Nov 12, 2010 4:20 PM

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we'll see how this goes...
Nov 12, 2010 6:24 PM

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cyruz said:
Just the thought of the epicness that is Noir being defiled by something like Live Action makes me sick. :x


My thoughts exactly.
Nov 12, 2010 6:41 PM

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dillian said:
I am the only one who is excited over this news?

I don't expect it to be the exact thing as the original though.

btw forgive my ignorance is this a movie or a tv series?


Tv series thus it's called remake.Still I'd prefer to call it an adaptation.
Nov 12, 2010 7:22 PM

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Without Yuki Kajiura's soundtrack, in my opinion, the remake is not going to hold a flame to the original. Don't have to think about it twice.
Nov 12, 2010 11:25 PM

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I liked Noir so I will give the live action look.
Nov 13, 2010 12:10 AM

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Hmm, this'll save me the trouble of trying to steal it from my cousin's cupboard, I can watch the live action.
Keep hearing how this is a good anime series though, so meh, never know..?
Lol, imagine if they cast someone liek Gwyneth Paltrow.

And when the hell is Cowboy Bebop coming? ._.
Nov 13, 2010 1:51 PM

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Gwyneth Paltrow.


Considering this is tv series and not a movie, they won't cast that name or anyone else from big movies.

It might get some of high-names, because Starz is, frankly just as big as HBO and Showtime.

Considering this involves Sam Raimi, it will obviously contain Lucy Lawless (best known as Third Cylon in Battlestar Galactica remake and Xena in Xena), because most of his works contained her in some form or role.



MOst of the cast will probably be your susual Vancouver/Toronto casting pool + some relatively big names.
Nov 13, 2010 8:44 PM
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I'm looking forward to this.

I still have to watch Noir though...
Nov 13, 2010 9:01 PM
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From the comments on the first page alone, people seem to think this is going to be a live action movie. While those inherently suck, from the fact that a TV channel is making it, doesn't that mean this will be a series? That means that there will be time to do the storyline instead of cutting out the important bits for meaningless crap or just writing a shorter, extremely crap story while using character names. For all purposes, if it's gonna be a live action TV series, it has every opportunity to be good, whereas movies find themselves extremely limited.

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This is a series not a movie so this will I either suck or rock. I will wait before I give my response Cause I thought Dragonball Evolution was gonna be good cause of the trailer. But then I found it sucked and I am glad I never saw it.
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