Posts Tagged “Live Action”

There have been a couple of recent high-profile efforts in the works to adapt anime into American live-action films: the Wachowski-directed Speed Racer from last May; the James Wong-helmed Dragonball coming in April; and James Cameron’s pet project Battle Angel, which will be shot in 3-D once he’s done with Avatar. (No, not an adaption of the TV show – M. Night Shamalayan is directing THAT movie.) Well, prepare to add a very unlikely project to that list.

After trying to catch up on Heroes last night, I looked up Peter Petrelli’s actor Milo Ventimiglia on Wikipedia and saw that an anonymous user added a strange entry to his filmography on October 11th, namely that he could play Ban Mido in a 2010 Get Backers live-action film that is supposedly “in negotiations”. I have not been able to find any information online about a director, screenwriter, or other actors to substantiate this claim so please take this as a DEEPLY UNFOUNDED RUMOR and probably someone emulating Anime Insider’s Casting Call column…badly.

The only other set of edits made on the entire site by that user were performed three days earlier, when Christian Bale’s entry was altered to include an “in negotiations” Batman Concludes film with a 2010 release date. This misinformation was removed on October 21st, followed by an false addition of The Dark Knight Returns for 2011 by another user on Oct. 25, which was removed later that day by a superuser. There have been no official details revealed about a third film in the Batman reboot series aside from Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov hoping it gets released by 2011 among many tent-pole superhero and other big-budget films over the next few years.

I finally got around to watching the Detective Conan oneshot J-drama this past Thanksgiving weekend and it made me realize how exaggerated the anime really is. For example, Mouri Kogoro’s passion was about as over-the-top in the drama as it was in the TV show. The special follows Shinichi’s final case before he gets shrinks into Conan Edogawa.
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Yomiuri TV has launched a website for a live-action adaptation of Meitantei Conan scheduled to air this fall as the anime concludes its 10th anniversary celebration. It will take place before Shinichi’s transformation into Conan Edogawa so there will be some high school moments in it between Shinichi and Ran. But one thing that I feel will make or break the series is the role of Kogoro. He must have at least one drunk scene; otherwise, the adaptation will have failed in my book.

Cast:

Kudo Shinichi – Oguri Shun (???)

Mouri Ran – Kurokawa Tomoka (????)

Suzuki Sonoko – Iwasa Mayuko (?????)

Mouri Kogoro – Jinnai Takanori (????)