Various news about live-action movies adapted from anime or manga caught my eye these days. And not because I'm looking forward to any of them (which I'm absolutely not... except maybe for the last one), but simply because of the titles and names involved: from Dragonball, Akira, Ninja Scroll and Oldboy, to DiCaprio, Spielberg and Will Smith.
The most resounding of them - the live-action
Dragonball movie - has been the subject of our attention for more than a year. Yet its release date is still pretty far away, having
slipped to 2009. Last time we
mentioned it, the North American premiere was supposed to take place on April 10. But now... Hey, relax, we have good'ish news! According to
IGN, 20th Century Fox pulled the release two days earlier, so now it's set for April 8, 2009. (
Update: Dragonball movie trailer added locally)
Next up, we got Akira and Ninja Scroll.
Both of these live-action adaptations are currently being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way. The good news is that he's not interested in "acting" in any of them, instead leaving that job to someone with more talent (should be real easy to find). The bad news is that the final script draft for the
Akira movie will soon be done, so... brace yourselves!
Finally, we have Steven Spielberg
teaming up with Will Smith - one of the very few black actors who can actually play. Their goal is to do a remake of the Korean movie "Oldboy" from 2003, which was based on the Japanese psychological thriller manga Old Boy,
"about a man who was imprisoned for over a decade and now hunts down his mysterious former kidnappers to take revenge". Will Smith going into
Shion-mode sounds mighty fine! Though I'm sure my comrade would rather see Jet Li in that role...
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