 Entertainment news website Variety has confirmed that American film production company Warner Bros. has acquired the feature film rights to Hajime Isayama's post-apocalyptic fantasy manga Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). Warner Bros. reached a deal with the manga's Japanese publisher, Kodansha, on Monday.The Hollywood film adaptation will be helmed by Argentine filmmaker Andy Muschietti, who directed last year's supernatural horror film It, based on Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. British film studio Heyday Films founder David Heyman (Harry Potter), Japanese American actor Masi Oka (Death Note), and Andy's sister Barbara Muschietti (Mama) are credited as producers for the film. Negotiations for the manga's adaptation by a Hollywood production company were first revealed by the entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood in January 2017. At the time, Kodansha released a statement indicating that various film negotiations were underway and that the Deadline Hollywood report was erroneous. On Tuesday morning, Kodansha finally provided a press release to Japanese media confirming the film's production. Toho Pictures previously produced two live-action adaptations of Shingeki no Kyojin in 2015. Those films (pictured) were directed by Gainax veteran Shinji Higuchi and starred Haruma Miura as protagonist Eren Yeager. Both films were also released internationally. In Japan, the films earned a cumulative 4.93 billion yen in box office revenues, becoming the year's seventh and 24th highest-grossing domestic films. No release date has been set for Muschietti's Shingeki no Kyojin adaptation. He is currently directing a sequel of It scheduled to be released in September 2019. Source: Variety, PR Times |
| Warner Brother's response to Legendary Picture's Jack the Giant Slayer My Hero Academia Hollywood Adaptation. |
| I'm hoping to see what they do plan to adapt and what they will change considering the changes in the jp live action was ass |
| This should be good. Explosions, screams, fights, deaths. I hope mikasa will be cute. |
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| Keep it up, Hollywood. Just keep it up........... At least they won't have to worry about whitewashing since no one is Asian except Mikasa (who's technically only half). But watch, these people will STILL manage to fuck up and cast Scarlett Johansson as Mikasa even though they literally only need ONE Asian girl in this movie. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Why do they buy the rights for something, when in the end they change it completely. This will be just another trash to the pile with name "live action manga adaptations". Like seriously, im not hating, but we all know how this will end. |
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| Whatever, I’m just glad that more people will come to know of this show once this movie premieres. Expecting nothing good at all, nor am I least bit hyped for it. |
#Anime4Life be my Life Motto! #PrayForKyoAni  |
| more money on the pockets of the manga author Isayama is always welcome |
| This will be horrible, can't wait to see people bitching about it. |
| Well, it can't be worse than already existing Japanese live action films. Hopefully it will be good by some miracle. |
| Stop this at once please |
| Lol this will be hilariously bad but as others already said it will probably be at least better than the japanese live-action. |
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FoxyKaizoku said: "Hey, there's this anime called "Attack on Titan". Yeah, the manga has more than 100 chapters and the anime is about 70 episodes long with more to come... yeah-yeah, it's 23 hours total and the story is not finished" "Cool... though, I don't want to watch 70 episodes. What, a Japanese movie-adaptation? Nah, I don't like Japanese. LET'S MAKE OUR OWN MOVIE" "But we can't adapt it properly and the story, aesthetics would not work in a movie format..." "I WANT AN AMERICAN MOVIE" "We can't do that..." "AND NO ASIANS" If you don't know how to read, there's already two movies |
FoxyKaizoku said: toutoune134 said: Aot has a 19th century european inspired setting, I don't see why it couldn't be properly adapted into a Hollywood movie. And most of the characters are Caucasians, with Mikasa being the only asian. Of course they could add more diverse original characters as long they fit the setting and the story. Caucasians? European?... Goodness, do you know the definition of "style"? Show me an article or a mangaka's note where he says that all of the mentioned characters are Caucasians and Mikasa is "the only Asian". Stop projecting your politicized beliefs on art. Anime does NOT play your race game. Uhhh toutoune is actually right, the cast of AOT actually isn't Asian mostly. For one thing an explicit plot-point with the character Mikasa is the fact she is the last surviving member of the Asian clan. So if she is supposed to be the last surviving Asian then logically Eren & Armin can't be Asian because that whole "last of her kind" bit wouldn't make sense. Second the names of most of the characters aren't Japanese. Eren's last name "Jaeger" is literally German for "Hunter". This extends to the rest of the character's names, Armin Arlert, Sasha Braus, Jean Kirstein, Annie Leonhart. Those aren't names you find in Japan, they are from other nations, particularly those with Germanic origins or relations. So technically they only need one Japanese woman to play Mikasa's role. For the rest of the cast it should be a combination of say Germans, Swedish, Russians, French, Dutch, actors from those places. |
| I used to be a watchmaker. |
| Hollywood is battling on who can make the worst live action movie. |
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| It should be at least better than japanese live-action. Japan does not know how to make a good live-action films |
FoxyKaizoku said: toutoune134 said: Aot has a 19th century european inspired setting, I don't see why it couldn't be properly adapted into a Hollywood movie. And most of the characters are Caucasians, with Mikasa being the only asian. Of course they could add more diverse original characters as long they fit the setting and the story. Caucasians? European?... Goodness, do you know the definition of "style"? Show me an article or a mangaka's note where he says that all of the mentioned characters are Caucasians and Mikasa is "the only Asian". Stop projecting your politicized beliefs on art. Anime does NOT play your race game. Except it does. Spoilers for the manga, but Plus, just use your damn common sense dude. When you got a name like "Kiyomi Azumabito" in the manga, you bet your ass you think of an Asian. Or "Eren Jaeger" will probably remind you of a European. This is PURPOSELY done because the characters are based off of our real world. |
| This could work. AoT needs a high budget for a live action. The only problem will be the director, writers and actors. |
FoxyKaizoku said: "Hey, there's this anime called "Attack on Titan". Yeah, the manga has more than 100 chapters and the anime is about 70 episodes long with more to come... yeah-yeah, it's 23 hours total and the story is not finished" "Cool... though, I don't want to watch 70 episodes. What, a Japanese movie-adaptation? Nah, I don't like Japanese. LET'S MAKE OUR OWN MOVIE" "But we can't adapt it properly and the story, aesthetics would not work in a movie format..." "I WANT AN AMERICAN MOVIE" "We can't do that..." "AND NO ASIANS" please name an entire cast of asians that are fully recognisable in the west. in fact, name 5. even if you can, are you seriously implying the movie would do well with a different race of people? lmao think harder son EDIT nvm you got destroyed already |
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| give it a rest already live-action adaptations never work |
Danae said: Rurouni Kenshin's did, but I agree most tend to suck.give it a rest already live-action adaptations never work |
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| I'm half white half asian and going by what's on screen, Mikasa came out looking a lot less asian than I did. You could cast a white girl who looks like she might be mixed, it would be fine on the level of appearances. Having one hot young asian woman in a Hollywood film wouldn't exactly be a victory for representation anyway. Well, maybe if the role were intact enough to be better than the stereotypical. I expect this movie will make mega bucks in Japan / the asian market; apparently when they watch Hollywood movies they'd rather see exotic white people than American asians. (At least according to a documentary I saw on PBS when The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift came out.) FoxyKaizoku said: Caucasians? European?... Goodness, do you know the definition of "style"? In addition to being uninformed, you seem to be confused: many Japanese anime characters do indeed "look white" because that's the result of the art style. But the noses on most Attack on Titan characters make it clear that this isn't that style. (Compare Monster, which also featured many realistically drawn europeans.) Mikasa of course has the typical small anime nose of an asian character. |
| I am afraid. Very. Very afraid. |
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| lmaoooooooooooooo. My Hero Academia is still worse but we should all be afraid. |
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 I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
| Can't wait for them to make Levi black LOL |
 I don't watch as much anime as before... |
| well, I'm not really surprised, it's a superhero-themed anime, and Americans love superheroes, so I doubt it would hurt them to try... But I think it will be worse than those Recent DC movies. |
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| I didn't watch it myself, but I heard that supposedly the only good American live-action movie adaptation up until now is "Edge of Tomorrow", which is an adaptation of the Japanese manga (or was it a (light)novel? I am not sure) series "All You Need Is Kill". |
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| Live action adaptations either need a show that has little enough content to fit into 1.5-2 hours, or a talented enough writer to actually be able to write something original and make the movie have an ending while keeping the tone and mood of the source. Seriously, that wasn't that hard of an analysis to think about, yet all of these live action movies end up being garbage, due to the lack of knowledge about the source material. That Ghost in the Shell movie had a lot of homages to the original movie, but didn't even know what the appeal was, and completely left out all the psychological aspects the series was known for. Hollywood's idea of what anime is is completely off, and until that changes, mixing Hollywood and anime is a formula destined to fail. It's not even specific to anime anymore. It's like the worst of the Marvel movies, they just attempt to adapt some of these characters and make them appeal to the masses, while completely forgetting why we liked these comic book characters in the first place. There are obviously Marvel movies that have taken creative liberties with their characters, but they didn't stray THAT far, in those specific instances. Wolverine was still a cool enough anti-hero, they didn't make him into some sappy friendship-coveting superhero or anything |
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