Teaser For Live-Action GATCHAMAN Aka BATTLE OF THE PLANETS

I loved this as a kid. I hope this pans out...in English.

Oh wait, its from Tatsunoko(?).

Grug from the croods say:

"Lets Do IT!!!"

That looked awesome..........

Loved that show as a kid. Live action should be fantastic!

One of my all time favorite shows as a kid. Just hope they don't give Keyop that f'in studder.

Like to see the movie G-force wasbad anime.

Bout fckin time

Love gforce

The cgi movie looked better though

The Japanese have been making live action anime adaptions of their films for years(to varying success). Honestly a team of color coordinated superheroes is not exactly a new concept(Sentai) for these folks.

The problem with adapting Anime is that while many are set in Japan and have many Japanese characters. The Japanese culture is irrelevant to the story. Their target audience is Japanese so that is why it's in Japan. Hiring non asian actors for the majority of the cast makes sense. Setting the story in Japan makes the story out of reach to begin with. Yes there are exceptions but at the end of the day most folks in the US will want to watch a movie where the "status quo" is their culture.

The problem with say DB Evolution wasn't that Goku was white but that they tossed out the story and took some very superficial from the cartoon. It truly was Dragon Ball in name only.

Speed Racer though was awesome. They adapted and never lost the spirit.

also the helmets in this gatchaman teaser are lame and look like tron helmets

@thewolfx - The CGi movie looked fantastic but until we see action scenes, FX and a proper full trailer from this live action version, no one can honestly say which would better.

@FreakingIntelligentRobertGriffin - That's nice but the point of my post was that the Japanese like mostly every other country else have very little to zero desire to adapt other peoples original material. Unlike Hollywood who literally have been doing so for years and now basically is all their do for the brunt of their big budget releases.

Sure there are countries that make very small budget spoofs of popular movies from America in some countries for a laugh, but you won't find any foreign movie industry constantly remaking foreign language Films, TV Shows, Books, Comics or even popular toys as major big budget features the way America does.

And if it were to happen, then the culture divide you mentioned wouldn't really be an issue. Since Americans remake stuff to suit their audiences by changing settings, actors, polt and characters so it stands to reason any the same can be done vice verse.

Like I said, Hollywood have been doing this for years with movies like:

The Magnificent Seven (1960) (remake of Seven Samurai)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) ( Remake of Yojimbo)
The Outrage (1964) (remake of Rashomon)

But they used to make a deluge of original content in the past because the studios were run by artists. Now the studios are run by corporations and their formula is basically to take a popular name brand and turn it into the most popular type of movie i.e action film or action comedy. Only Horror film adaptations escape that rule but most of their Horror films again are simply remakes or adaptations of foreign movies. And its not just Japan I'm talking about who get the remake routine from Hollywood, its every country, examples..

Shutter, Bangkok Dangerous (Thailand)

The Eye, The Departed (China/Hong Kong)

Dark Water, The Grudge, The Ring, Pulse, One Missed Call (Japan)

True Lies, Twelve Monkeys, Point of No Return, LOL, The Woman in Red, Original Sin, Oscar, Unfaithful, Nine Months, The Toy, EdTV, Dinner For Schmucks, Taxi, Wild Target (French)

The Debt (Israel)

Contraband (Iceland)

Insomnia (Norwegian)

Vanilla Sky, Quarantine (Spanish)

Let Me In, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Invisible (Swedish)

City of Angels, Funny Games (German)

And that's just a sample of the movies, they also remake foreign TV shows (way too many from the UK like Being Human, Shameless, The Office) and literally tons of ridiculous remakes of their own TV shows and movies from the past like Charlies Angels, Starsky and Hutch, 21 Jump Street all turned into action comedies instead of dramas like their original TV shows were to increase their appeal at the box office under the action film/action comedy consumer demand.

When certain people here state crap like "The Japanese are FINALLY adapting their own material" it's like saying the Japanese are giving up being original and turning as mundane a production machine as Hollywood.

Wow, awesome. I never had any idea that they're making this. I love the visual update of the live-action Casshern movie released a few years ago (although I haven't managed to check out the movie myself), and I think the same will also apply to this, so I'm looking forward to it. Always loved the concept of this series.

http://gatchaman-movie.jp/
The teaser trailer comes from the official movie website.
I thin the CGI Imagi flick has been dead for some time.

The CGI Gatchaman project ended when Imagi in Hong Kong went bust in 2010. Ain't ever gonna happen now.