(Y'know, that Japanese anime pwns Hollywood any time. Oh, and yeah. That us otakus are also shameless cash cows. >_>)
There's been a growing trend of Hollywood-produced anime-to-movie live actions in the recent years, have you guys noticed? There's been Speed Racer last year, Dragonball this year and oh, wait what's that? Akira, Avatar (The Last Airbender), Eva (Neon Genesis Evangelion), Full Metal Panic and ohholyshit, Keanu Reeves as SPIKE fuggin' SPIEGEL in a Cowboy Bebop adaptation?
Wait. Lemme calm myself.
...
Is it just me or does Hollywood seem to have mistakenly equated stoic with easy cool?
Because really, Spike Spiegel is in a league light years far from the likes of Neo, Constantine and - Heaven curse yer Mother Planet - Klaatu.
Guh.
Calm down, otaku. Just because Speed Racer and Dragonball sucked balls blue doesn't mean that everything else that follows will suck just the same.
So. Two sides fighting here. There's disgust, and then there's hope. I wanna go hope - primarily because I'm optimistic that way; but also because sci-fi westerns with a jazzy foundation couldn't be THAT hard to adapt to real-life-flesh-blood-tears right? Serenity/Firefly went along fine and Aeon Flux was par excellence, after all; so it should be easy NOT to mess up Bebop (of all things, gawd), right?
*breathe*
Right.
Anyway, if all else fails, there's always this:
Straight out of an effin' storybook. Tim Burton, I will SO have your babies.
And more importantly, this:
*froths at the mouth*
I wish all Hollywood directors were as visionary as this guy. In his hands, I will gladly commit any anime's spirit. Seriously.
Then again, come to think of it, where would all the fun in bashing subpars go, right?
*More wonderfully wonderful Alice in Wonderland stills here.
