Seconded - nobody wants to see Frank add his own "adjustments" to the story now, do we? Save for Miller himself, of course.
The Goddamn Batman: Year Goddamn One.
I'm curious though...since one of their mandates with these films as we've discussed in other films IS how they look visually they have already done one anime film, would they consider filming another like it?
Well, that's the thing about anime -- it's not one style. As
Gotham Knight showed, various anime studios have a wide range of different aesthetic styles, much broader and more experimental than is generally found in American animation design. Also I'm thinking of color usage. There are things that Japanese animators do with light and color that are just gorgeous, far richer than what you usually see in American-designed productions. What I'm saying is that if the goal were to try to capture the aesthetic qualities of Mazzucchelli's original B:YO artwork, there's probably a Japanese animation studio that could achieve that goal better than WB Animation could.
(Of course, all American animated productions have the actual animation work done in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, etc. But the design work and storyboards, the work that determines the visual style of the production, is done stateside. What I'm proposing is using an anime studio for the design phase of the process as well as the animation phase.)
Then again, come to think of it, I was never crazy about the art in B:YO. So I might not be too upset if the visual style were changed. But that's my reaction as a viewer. I guess I'm thinking in terms of what I'd be considering if I were responsible for making it, and one consideration would be trying to appeal to the fans of the original art by emulating its style. Like the way they used Ed McGuinness's highly exaggerated character design style (which I really don't like) for
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. Or like they supposedly modeled
New Frontier on Darwyn Cooke's style, though personally I don't see that great a similarity.
