Starblazers / Yamato live action movie

* Seems like a budget movie, but cool anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBu1cZm4Gqg

 

well if nothing else the set design and the firing of the wave motion gun are true to the original.

 

Not too impressed with Takuya Kimura aka Mr. Brain... being the lead in this.

 

Live action STARBLAZERS...

Man, this looks GOOD..

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43510

 

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Holy crap! I wanna see this one ASAP!

 

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Details, details, details. Is this a real movie, or just a youtube thing?

 

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According to what I've read, it's a real movie, produced in Japan, coming out this year.

 

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This looks pretty damn cool.

 

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http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=111480

 

Yay!

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Thank God you embedded that, because I couldn't figure out how to use those fancy hyper-links to the YouTube page.

This will probably be like a thousand other Japanese live-action adaptations: refreshingly close to the source material as far as plot and design elements go but rather deficient in most other areas.

A huge Starblazers movie would be cool, but I think we'll see a big Robotech movie before that ever happens.

 

Unfortunately, I have to agree.

I would be enormously pleased with both.

 

Anyone have an actual release date for this?

 

To me the real joy of Star Blazers was the long-form serialized story format. To a little kid, it just seemed to go on and on forever. Squeezing it down into 2 hours makes it just another low-budget sci-fi movie. I wish they had done a weekly TV show instead.

 

And do you think they would have dubbed a live-action TV series in English to go after the American scifi market?

 

This looks pretty cool! I'll watch a subtitled version of this.

Found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_%28live_action_film%29

 

You're welcome.

 

Toby McGuire's production company has optioned Robotech for a live action film in partnership with Harmony Gold.

Of course the film SEEMS to be stuck in "development hell" as they try to sort out things like rights issues to some of the mechas and what-not, as well as find backing.

I wouldn't expect it in the next year or two, but maybe by 2013...maybe...

 

Neat, not bad for $22 million.

 

Awesome! That and the new cartoon flick out in a few weeks. Woo-hoo!