2013-04-25, 09:23 | Link #21 |
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There's never really been a consensus on where to put american adaptations of mangas/animes, some end up in general anime and some in general chat.
Honestly ideally if the Monster subforum wasn't retired that's where I'd have put the thread, the reasoning for putting it in general anime seems valid to me, it is anime related since an anime of Monster exists and it might be getting an american version. A lot of people that might be interested in this don't even bother going into the general chat section so they'd miss the thread. Ive always wondered if it wasn't better to just group all american adaptations together into a general thread that would fill that purpose in general anime, the Akira thread I linked to earlier went on to discuss other live action productions as well.
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2013-04-25, 09:26 | Link #22 | |
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2013-04-25, 10:32 | Link #24 | |
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The news was also posted on Anime News Network so if it's good enough for an anime news site it should be good enough for the anime section of this board. Well that's my reasoning. And I think this board gets more traffic than General Chat.
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2013-04-27, 03:27 | Link #27 | |
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People who come to this forum are anime and manga fans. The fans who are interested in news concerning anime and manga will not go to a "General Chat" thread to find news about anime and manga. This is a series based off a Japanese Manga and the principal audience who comes here will be looking at General anime/manga news. Monster is a Manga, the fact that it is being developed into something more deserves to be in a thread relevant to it such as a manga/anime thread. |
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2013-04-27, 18:41 | Link #28 | |
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1. The news that a manga-based show will be getting a live action adaptation. 2. Actual discussion of the show itself while it airs. For the former, I guess maybe it's okay to post the news in an anime-related thread (it's debatable). But for the latter, it makes much more sense (to me anyway) to put it in the upcoming Entertainment sub-forum alongside all the other HBO (and other) live action shows. But for now anyway, the news story is probably okay here.
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2013-04-29, 14:53 | Link #29 | |
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If they are going to adapt it I hope they give it a actual series, maybe two or three seasons? I am sure that there is enough material for that assuming that they are doing hour long episodes like all their other series are done in. Even if they make some changes to the story / modernize it, I will be more then willing to give it a try because I would have to assume the core elements and outcomes will remain the same, otherwise it wouldn't really be a adaption of Monster now would it?
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2013-04-29, 20:34 | Link #30 |
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I don't see Monster being adapted into an open-ended ongoing series.
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Many of HBO's recent original offerings like Girls or The Newsroom started with six-episode runs with renewals depending on audience. Season one of The Sopranos began with thirteen. At 24 minutes per episode, the 74 episodes of Monster work out to 29.6 hours. No television executive would commit to a show of that length. Del Toro and company will be lucky to get thirteen 56-minute episodes; that would give them 12.1 hours to tell the story.
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2013-04-29, 20:58 | Link #31 | |
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I really think this could work, and no, I wouldn't be concerned about them 'updating' the plot. Perhaps make Tenma American, yeah, but HBO doesn't strike me as the type of network to dumb down the show to the audience to such a degree as completely changing the setting...
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If I'm correct, they'd likely go for a Chinese or Korean actor. In this case, they'd probably stay away from the "Memoir of a Geisha" trap and make the character Chinese (Taiwanese/Hong Konger) or Korean respectively. If there's no proper East Asian actor can be cast, then the sky's the limit on who del Toro can use, but it'd probably be a non-white actor. A black Tenma would be all sorts of amazing.
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2013-04-30, 03:07 | Link #34 |
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Just as a reminder,if there's someone that would be willing to keep Tenma japanese,it's Del Toro.
Got this from the Pacific Rim thread, here he is promoting the movie to the japanese by talking about how he's cast a couple of japanese actors in the film.
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2013-04-30, 22:47 | Link #37 |
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This isn't the '90s any more, and HBO seems open to making shows like Treme with a very diverse cast. Tenma's race shouldn't be a problem for the greenlight process since all of the other characters are going to be either German or Eastern European. The real problem is finding someone who can pull the character off. Off hand, can you think of any fitting Japanese actors?
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The only Japanese actors of any stature in the U.S. that I'm familiar with are Watanabe Ken, who's obviously too old, Masi Oka, who doesn't look right for Tenma's role, and maybe Kaneshiro Takeshi. Kaneshiro may be a little too unknown in the West (which didn't stop Jay Chou), but he seems very good for the role.
Tenma's going to have by far the most screen time, so I don't think that that will fly. Now that you bring it up, Johann and Anna are going to be a challenge to cast as well.
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