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this week in uncalled for live action anime remakes
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All these studios think that they’re going to be the one that makes a beloved anime into a live action version and pull it off. I guess maybe one day, one will do it, but I’m betting there will be a hell of a lot cgi.
They're not trying to be good, they're trying to make money. An established fandom has a % that will absolutely watch it even if this trash. A further, potentially larger % will hate watch/ironically watch it specifically because it's trash.
Talk-no-jutsu, no-one expecting James Cameron levels of CGI, script only has to be adapted and not written from scratch, free advertising from fans bitching about it to generate internet clout, etc, for relatively lower production cost.
Someone's worked out this genre of remakes consistently make profit.
I never thought about it that way. Good point. Enshitification?
If M. Night Shyamalamadingdong's Last Airbender is of any indication ($150 mil budget, $320 mil box office, 5% on Rotten Tomatoes), the trend is here to stay.
Despite how terrible the first live action Full Metal Alchemist was, they still made 2 more. Considering they could have simply axed the second, let alone make a third, the first one generated enough revenue to be a profit.
Expect a D tier Bleach adaptation in 2028.
I guess it's a natural synthesis between cheap shitty films that still pull numbers (Scary Movie, Sharknado, etc) that don't already have a passionate fanbase + a passionate demographic with a load of disposable income (i.e. otaku, or ATLA fans)