3 Mangas that I think would translate well into a live action movie
As we all know, most Manga (Asian equivalent of comics) does not or has not been translated well into movies. Death Note and Dragon Ball are two huge examples of this. Usually due to poorly casted actors, bad scripts, and a really cheap budget, most of these films end up sucking really bad. Some of them just don’t even translate well into movies simply because it’s too outlandish. So what mangas would work as Live Action Movies? Click The link to find out
1.I Luv Halloween-I Luv Halloween is an American written Manga for Tokyopop that stars a few little devilishly screwed in the head children on a night of trick or treating. You’ve got an interesting cast of characters, lots of dark humor, and potential horror movie themes. This move would translate well because it would be low budget and it’s fairly easy to adapt a story like this. I imagine being adapted as an R rated horror-comedy directed by the guys who did Zombieland with the script writer from Shaun of the Dead. Budget-$25 million
Dream Director-Ruben Fleischer(Zombieland)-Zombieland was a horror comedy of sorts so why not add the guy who directed it?
Dream Script Writers-Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg(Shaun of the Dead)-tow excellent writers in the horror comedy genre would be perfect for this
2.Jing: King of Bandits-Imagine this: A 17-19 year old master thief travels the world to steal exotic (often weird) treasures with the help of his flying bird and they have to take down unique opponents in a climax of sorts. It may seem like it’s been done before, but not in this specific context. A lot of the imagery is really weird and screwballed. It would be a good adaptation because people love films about master thieves. Imagine James Bond being a master treasure thief. That’s what this film and character would pretty much be. The film would be James bond-Meets RED-meets-The Italian Job. Sounds cool right? Budget-$115 million for the weird environments and cgi/costumes needed
Dream Director-Marc Foster(Quantum of Solace) A guy like this could be pretty good to direct a film like this. He has done Bond work before
Dream Script Writer-Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island)-Shutter Island has some good heist/escape scenes written in so I thought Laeta would be good for this job
3.Ninja Scroll-Ninja Scroll is one of my favorite movies in the anime market and a good mangas as well so I think a live action version would be cool. It’s easily adaptable because people love ninja and kung fu movies and this could capitalize on that. Plus, al the unique characters and intricate fight scenes would certainly make it stand out amongst the others. I see it being adapted as a Ninja Assassin type film (hopefully starring Rain as well) but with a deeper plot. Budget-$155 million
Dream Director-James Mcteigue-Having him return for a similar film would be pretty good if you ask me
Dream Script Writer-Rhett Reese (Deadpool)-The action scenes in the leaked Deadpool script were great and I’m sure he could write just as good ones for this film.
So I hope you enjoyed reading this and tell me what you think