Chronicle - The Reason WB Cancelled Live-Action Akira?

[Antonio E. Gonzalez]

I'll admit I haven't seen either one (yes, I haven't seen Akira
yet; you may pick up your jaws), but this review points to a lot of
similarities between the two:

<http://www.aintitcool.com/node/53299>

This paragraph in particular has an interesting theory:

"Why did Warner Brothers suddenly decide to close shop on their AKIRA
live-action movie? I can't be certain, but I'd like to think that
this screened for the top brass and when it was done, someone shook
their head and said, "Shut it down, boys." Sure, AKIRA's far larger
in scale than this, but CHRONICLE gets the essentials right - a power
barely contained, a friendship tested, and a young man, bullied all
his life, who goes out of control with his newfound ability and how
his friends try to stop him. Since it's told in the "found footage"
medium, there is a slight distancing effect, especially in some of the
crazier scenes, because you're wondering who in the hell would be
working a camera at that moment, but then the movie has a breakthrough
and explains perfectly why the filmmakers made it this way."

So, Akira can't really be remade, even by modern Japan. Chronicle
may be as close as we come to live-action Akira, and perhaps as close
as we *should* come to live-action Akira.

[Aje.RavenStar]

"Antonio E. Gonzalez" wrote in message
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I can't agree. I didn't think Watchmen could be made into a live action
film, but it worked (at least for me). I couldn't imagine anyone making a
remake of a John Wayne film, but the new take on True Grit was a hit (and
now I'm waiting on the remake of The Cowboys with Charlie Sheen in the John
Wayne role, Samuel L Jackson as the cook, and just to put in some real life
tension, Ashton Kutcher in the Bruce Dern role as leader of the rustlers).
Didn't think The Lord of the Rings would ever been made into films, and I'm
having my doubts about The Hobbit currently in production.
But all it takes is a producer and director that respect the source material
and block any attempts to give it the 'Hollywood Treatment'. I don't
expect we'll ever see a live action Akira, but it's always possible.

[nick]

Don't they have this backwards? If Chronicle had been a disasterous
embarrassing flop, that might have stopped an Akira project, but since
Chronicle is a success, wouldn't that inspire studios to jump on its
bandwagon?

[Rob Kelk]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:34:45 -0800 (PST), nick
<nickmacp...@AOL.com> wrote:

<snip>

>Don't they have this backwards? If Chronicle had been a disasterous
>embarrassing flop, that might have stopped an Akira project, but since
>Chronicle is a success, wouldn't that inspire studios to jump on its
>bandwagon?

That runs the risk of people saying a live-action Akira is "just a
ripoff of Chronicle"...

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of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up." - C.S. Lewis

[moviePig]

On Feb 11, 12:24 am, Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntEGM...@aol.com> wrote:

I saw both, and, though CHRONICLE reminded me (favorably) of several
flicks, AKIRA wasn't among them. I doubt many will find either to be
the other's deja vu all over again.

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[Travers Naran]

On 11/02/2012 6:54 AM, Rob Kelk wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:34:45 -0800 (PST), nick
> <nickmacp...@AOL.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Don't they have this backwards? If Chronicle had been a disasterous
>> embarrassing flop, that might have stopped an Akira project, but since
>> Chronicle is a success, wouldn't that inspire studios to jump on its
>> bandwagon?
>
> That runs the risk of people saying a live-action Akira is "just a
> ripoff of Chronicle"...

That has never stopped a Hollywood studio before.

[Ken from Chicago]

"Antonio E. Gonzalez" <AntE...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Ironically the awesomeness of CHRONICLE would almost guarantee the making of
similarly theme Americanized AKIRA.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DuelingMovies

-- Ken from Chicago

[Ken from Chicago]

"Travers Naran" <tna...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Exactly. Usually it's just the opposite. If someone else is making a
similarly themed movie, that seems almost proof that said movie is worth
doing.