My cries yesterday were heard wrong ...

So yesterday, I posted that I wanted to see female heroines kicking butt.

Today, I get this: 2012 Bubblegum Crisis Film Planned with Caucasion/Asian Cast

UGH...

Don't get me wrong, I LOVED the original Bubblegum Crisis. I just can't see it as a live action film without being extremely cheesy.

Also, I'm not sure why the headlines on ANN emphasized that it would have a "Caucasion/Asian Cast". Because frankly, in this day and age, it shouldn't be a headline. Oh wow! Look! A Caucasion/Asian cast. I guess we're diverging from African American/Asian casts (Rush Hour) and Caucasion/Asian cast (the last Mummy). Wait, never mind. It's been done...

The only cool thing I can find is that it will be "the first co-production between the six nations."

Anyways, I'm guessing this will be the next Dragonball Evolution movie... so quoting from Allie, "Bite me!"

~Meg

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He-Man Master of the Universe Movie

So, it looks like there might be a new He-Man movie coming soon (but not that soon). But the news is that the movie has landed a new writer. According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Warners sees the big-screen version as a gritty fantasy and reimagines Adam as a soldier who sets off to find his destiny, happening upon the magical world of Eternia. There, Skeletor has raised a technological army and is bent on eradicating magic."

WTF? Technological army? He-Man is fantasy - NOT Fantasy/SciFi. Wait a sec... if He-Man is fantasy... then maybe it should be a yaoi love story!!! It'd make more sense than an army of robots. He and Duncan (Man-At-Arms) can have a rocky relationship of sort. Of course, it'd be obvious who the seme be. Duh... Man-At-Arms.

Last of all, what about She-Ra? We need more women kicking butt. I'm sick and tired of lame women superhero movies. If it was Tissie, Allie, and I, we'd kick ALL the guys asses.

So, the moral of this post is, I don't know...

~Meg

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Death Note US Remake

So I recently read that Warner Brothers acquired Death Note, but what I didn't realize was that it was going to be a US remake live action movie ala The Ring and Grudge.

I think this is going to be extremely interesting given the success of Death Note. What's different about it is that the success of the franchise is already there, contrary to The Ring and the Grudge. This is either going to lend to the success of the license by exposing it to the main stream market, or it's going to fall flat on its face, kind of like Dragonball Evolution. (Granted I haven't seen DB Evolution yet, but I haven't heard good things.)

I guess only time will tell. My hope is that success will follow and we'll have a cool-looking movie to look forward to. Now whether or not this or Cowboy Bebop will come out first is a different story. My only advise to the people working on either of the live-action series is... Make it good, or don't bother making it at all.

~Meg

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