10 Anime/Director Combos I’d Like to See
So, tons of anime are getting developed into Hollywood flicks these days: Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z. It came up while recording Japanator’s Podtoid-san podcast, and I suggested an anime I’d love to see a Hollywood flick of, done by a particular director. Then I came across more news about James Cameron and Battle Angel, and I though,t y’know? I bet I could come up with more awesome combos. Hit the jump to see.
Protips: Don’t take any of it seriously, and feel free to offer your own combos in the comments. ♥
1. Gurren Lagann / Quentin Tarantino. C’mon, just think about it for a few seconds. And I won’t clean up after your brain explodes from the EPIC VIOLENCE combo.
2. Evangelion / Judd Apatow. I know this one makes no sense; I just keep wanting to swap the title around to Evangelion 1.0: You Are Alone (Not).
3. Lucky Star / Kevin Smith. Because if there’s one thing Smith knows how to pull off, it’s bizarre, lengthy conversations about the minutiae of pop culture.
4. Baccano! / Martin Scorsese. It’d make use of his awesome ability to deal with the mafia, AND give him the option to expand into something new: batshit insane fantasy.
5. Fist of the North Star / Aaron Seltzer. It’d be a gross-out comedy spoof called Macho Movie.
6. Black Lagoon / Jerry Bruckheimer. Okay, fine, Bruckheimer is a producer, not a director. But admit it, all those explosions would be BIIIG.
7. Mushishi / Tim Burton. It’d be dark. It’d be pretty. Also, there’s a handy-dandy a built-in cast: Ginko would be played by Johnny Depp, young!Ginko by Freddie Highmore, and Helena Bonham Carter would play every female character.
8. KimiKiss / Ron Jeremy. Because the soap opera drama would be way more palatable if it came between massive orgy scenes.
9. Excel Saga / Terry Gilliam. Gilliam’s specialty is bizarre stories that don’t have a lot of continuity and don’t make sense. Match made in heaven? I think so!
10. Hellsing / Darren Lynn Bousman. Alucard and Alex Anderson in the hands of the man behind Saw II, III, and IV. Need I say more?
That hellsing would be AMAZING!
I gotta disagree with Lucky Star. Oddly enough I think Quentin Tarantino would be a more appropriate director. Okay, guns, violence and swearing aside, I think the guy can really pull off the whole inane chatter as entertainment angle (I say this in a good way). Nothing against Kevin Smith, though he does do a good job of making his dialog current and relevant with the addition of pop culture references, but I never really felt that the female characters he created for his films seemed genuine; they gave me the impression of being some ideal woman he envisioned that lacked realistic flaws. Sorry if I come off like some armchair film critic.
I could definitely imagine Tarantino doing a cameo as Konata’s father seeing as he always likes to pull a Hitchcock and insert himself into his films.
“but I never really felt that the female characters he created for his films seemed genuine; they gave me the impression of being some ideal woman he envisioned that lacked realistic flaws.”
HUH THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF LUCKY STAR. Lol, delicious irony!
@tj han
Notice that I said an ‘ideal woman HE envisioned.’ Expressing ideas through the written word was never my strong suit. =)
I’m aware that Lucky Star consists of characters that have seemingly perfect lives. If a hypothetical situation like this played out, I could almost see every character written to have the same personality as Kagami. Then again, I’d imagine some people might like this.