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Kevin Munroe's Gatchaman movie thread
Could someone sticky this please? And, tidy this place up. Kev could be here any second! :goof:
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Oh. I thought you had some news or something. :ohwell:
Anyhow, I kinda wish they'd call it "Battle of the Planets". A much more epic title for a feature film and likely the version of Gatchaman the new movie will be drawing from the most. Could be good. Hope they include the Iron Terapin since it was one of the cooler robots they fought in the show. And please for the love of God, no Zark. |
I've got news.
Well, it's a month old but no one here seemed to take notice.
Anyone else excited that Paul Dini is writing the script? :D Quote:
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Paul Dini!?
I'm sold. So far it looks to have a pretty solid set of ingredients going for it. Dini's writing, Munroe's direction and Imagi's animation. It'll take something serious to mess this up. I'm also glad that mainstream CG animation is finally moving out of the "LOL let's get celebrities to voice animals and fairy tale creatures because that's all CG is good for!" movies. If I have to suffer through one more Shrek clone or Pixar wannabe I'll probably hang myself. Good to see a studio trying something new with theatrical CG animation. |
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Well, by "draw from the most" I mean stuff like character names and what-not, as they're the most iconic for American audiences.
Keep in mind, there are four different sets of names for the characters here in the US. There's the Battle of the Planets names, the G-Force names, the Eagle Riders names and the Gatchaman names. It's all pretty convuluted, to put it lightly. I think we may have had this conversation before, but I'm hoping for something akin to the Top Cow Battle of the Planets comic, which was sort of an "Ultimate Battle of the Planets" adaptation. They took stuff from various versions of the show and left behind the less desirable elements (such as Zark, Rover and Keyop's speech impediment), and save for a few WTF moments (Keyop sleeps in a giant womb?), turned out pretty good. |
I think you are right, I'm almost positive we have had this conversation before :lol:
I should post pics of my Cy-Girls Gatchaman Jun doll again now. |
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Gatchaman Article
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I'm surprised he gave up on Gatchaman. He used to be so enthusistic about it when asked...
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Did he give up or was he booted off? |
Yeah, I think it's unfair to jump to any conclusions about the situation, especially without hearing anything directly from Kevin.
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That's interesting...I hope he didn't get booted, he seemed like a real nice guy...even took the time to come here to the forums to answer our questions about tmnt...I'm still interested in this movie though, but I've never seen any Gatchaman stuff...what would be the easiest way to approach this series? The best way to get the best stories out of it? I only ask because you guys say there are so many versions...
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Technically, he did 'give up', but that's not to say he went without a fight. So, I apologize if it sounded like I was saying he lost interest and quit or something.
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Ugh! I just hope this movie goes forward and they still use Paul Dini's script. I heard they're having problems with Astroboy as well. Man, if these 2 films don't get produced, we can kiss any chance of financial backing for TMNT 2k7 2 goodbye.
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Here is a nice Gatchaman site for more info: http://www.chronicsite.com/gatchaman/ Quote:
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I shoulda known 2 movies based off of Tatsunoko Productions animes were too good to be true. oh well, at least Speed Racer's coming out next month.
Kills any kinda hope for me we'll see any decent American interrest in Time Bokan and the like. |
This may shed some light on Kevin Monroe's recent departure from Imagi/Gatchaman:
Near the end of God of War 2, it was definitely time to do something different. I learned from a good friend Charles Lee that Imagi was making "Gatchaman". This was a dream project for me ever since I was a little kid running in the back streets of Taiwan as G1 (the leader of the Gatchaman team), protecting our neighborhood from alien invasion. This old 70's cartoon was called "Battle of the Planets" in the US, or G-Force. I loved it... I got to help envision Gatchaman for our times. I joined Imagi for about a year and a half---worked on some "look of picture" images, but mostly spent time designing the characters. The original vision for the film was fun and a bit edgy---appealed to me. The project's been through lots of changes, rewrites (like any film), ended up with a different director recently. The vision's changed since I first joined, and seems to be going towards a younger Power Rangers audience---I wanted to see a Gatchaman that I would love to see, and didn't want to see it go this direction, so I departed from Imagi and took an Art Directing/Character Designing gig on Thundercats. This blog belongs to Charlie Wen: http://charliewen.typepad.com/ |
Really really interesting. Thanks for posting.
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Disappointed, but not surprised.
Someday, Kevin. Someday, this country of philistines will get over its "animation is for kiddies" disease. Someday, there will be a "grownup" animated film that's actual ANIMATION, not motion-crapture Beowulf... nor a glorified videogame like Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within.
That was disappointing to read, but understandable. Audiences just aren't ready yet. Our culture isn't there. No one with power is willing to risk it. No one with experience is willing to help lead the way. Damn, superherohype is down -- my source of power! Okay, so anyone who knows enlighten me: My first question: is Paul Dini still writing this? :-? I can't believe he'd reduce this movie to 7-year-old fodder. He's above that. My other question is... Lynne Southerland, co-director of Mulan 2 (:|...) was also signed on for this movie. I wonder... is anyone else helping out at this point? |
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I hate, hate, hate when film studios get bugs up their collective butts about money and demographics and slaughter a film for kids that don't give a crap. I mean, is there anyone under the age of 20 who knows or even cares what the heck Gatchaman is? Be it known by its aliases "Battle of the Planets" or "G-Force" (there is a movie coming out called G-Force, but it's not that at all). I'm very disappointed in this. Clearly it's in danger of becoming an abandoned project (astroboy too). But Fans of Tatsunoko production based animes, don't worry. After Speed Racer, there is one other film to look forward to... http://www.yatterman-movie.com/ Unfortunately, it's just for Japanese Audiences. |
Eh, the Japanese seem about as bad at adapting their own material into live action movies as we are at it.
Try and suffer through the god awful live action 'Devilman' movie from 2005 sometime. It's a challenge. |
Never watched it back in the day, but I was still excited to see what else Munroe had up his sleve.
The fact that Astroboy probably won't get his movie fills me with all kinds of joy. |
Sarcastic joy?
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So Imagi has canned TMNT 2, Astroboy AND Gatchaman?
How do these people make money? |
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Kevin Monroe gives his official reasoning for leaving Gatchaman during an interview for his upcoming movie "Dylan Dog" renamed "Dead of Night":
IESB: So if you are directing Dylan Dog that obviously means you are no longer working on Gatchaman, what happened there? KM: Y’know, I put in quite a few years at Imagi, and we built something amazing on TMNT with a group of talented people out of a basement in Encino. It was a blast and I am thankful to have done it. With Gatchaman, I guess you can say it came down to creative differences. I’m a little heartbroken to walk away, as I’m still a huge fan of the property and its potential. But I’m glad that at least we got to share a little of my version of the movie in those images we released last year. At the end of the day, I wish Imagi the best of luck for the future. The rest of the interview can be found at IESB: http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...2&article=4854 |
Hmmm... Kevin's problems with Imagi and Gatchaman sound similar to Mirage's problems with Imagi and the would-be TMNT 2.
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"Q: Never PG-13 JS: No, from the very beginning we had these deals with these big companies and it was predicated on being a PG movie." It seems Warner is desperate for PG kids movie franchise, they're willing to turn anything and everything into a PG movie. |
Except Batman... Right?
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PG is the new G. AS I've been talking about in different TMNT movie threads, they siad that PG movies are like what PG 13 movies used to be, and Pg13 movies are what R rated movies used to be. As for the PG's, nothing could be further from the truth. PG is just a marketting gimmick that soups up a G rating so they can sucker people into thinking they're watching a more grown up film. PG=Family, and Family = big bucks from gullible people clammoring for Family entertainment (over rated, I say). Wholesome, scmolesome. The TMNT movie could have been rated G for all I'm concerned. So clearely if this film gets made (and I severely doubt it at this point), it would clearly be kiddified, and worthy of a G rating. But slapped with a market friendly PG. |
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Considering they still haven't annouced a replacement for Monroe, means that Imagi is still scrambling to find a director desperate enough to attach his name to a movie that is well into production, with little creative control, and willing to take the risk of the movie being critically panned, bombing at the boxoffice, and then taking the blame. |
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