10 Anime/Director Combos I’d Like to See
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Dated: 18 Mar 2008
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?
March 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
That hellsing would be AMAZING!
March 18th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
“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!
March 19th, 2008 at 6:49 am
@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.