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AICN EXCLUSIVE: Images From ASTRO BOY!!
Hey folks, Harry here... ASTRO BOY is about as cool an anime as they get. I've known of him pretty much my entire life, due to my father's undying love of all things robotic, and an evil teenage boarder that lived at my house as a boy, that loved ASTRO and then ripped us off for a fortune in collectibles. But his evil did not ebb our love for this robotic PINNOCHIO that could do a whole lot more than sing about a lack of strings.
This weekend, specificially on Saturday at 4pm, at the New York Comic Con... which curiously is in New York, Summit Entertainment, them blokes that made that fabulous vampire film about fabulous vampires, are having a big presentation where they're going to be dishing on their latest films. Stuff like Alex Proyas' KNOWING, Kathryn Bigelow's THE HURT LOCKER and lastly - and for me, the most exciting... They'll be debuting the following two images and an entire sequence from the film. (ENVY!) I'm hoping by posting these images early, that some of you - that will be there... will give us the low down on what they show! Cuz curious minds like mine, gotsta know.
The first image is of Astro Boy soaring through the gargantuan METRO CITY. This is a publicity shot, taken from the actual film - you'll never see Astro this clearly in the final film as he is hauling ass to go do something here. I saw a pre-release image of the one below, which had him in all his motion blur blurriness and it looks like he's moving out there. Yet doesn't have him as clearly pretty as you see now! [Click to make bigger]
The second image is of Astro Boy's nemesis, PEACEKEEPER. If you're not familiar with ASTRO BOY, this means nothing to you. However, if you are an astromaniac, you know that Peacekeeper is a baddie that absorbs other machines and turns their energy and powers against our little metal laddie. [Click to make bigger also]
Now you folks seeing this footage, don't forget to write in. I look forward to it!!!
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Looks like Astro boy!
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Why not
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has already been released on DVD. Looks very good though.
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want their Iron Giant concept art back...
Will the film use Osaka Popstar's song "Astroboy?" It better -
Feb 04, 2009 8:30:33 AM CST
Who the fuck cares when AVATAR is fucking our eyeballs in 2009?
by motoko kusanagi
NoBody.
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Make sure to check out http://tinyurl.com/bupfc7 Pluto on the Feb 17th, it's Naoki Urasawa's brilliant adult re-imagining of a classic Astro Boy story. One of the sadder works of sci-fi I've read in a while.
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I hope he fries lil Astro into a crisp
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...3-D-ifying classic animation makes me feel a little queasy still but...willing to give it a shot.
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Seen it and it's pretty good. Bigelow needs to direct more flicks. She a quality action director. Reckon she might have made a pretty decent Terminator flick.
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I like ASTROBOY, but I'm a raving lunatic for GATCHAMAN. I'm really looking forward to that one.
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Star Blazers, and Robotech were my faves. I'd love to see a live action Star Blazers. The Rebirth online comic is pretty cool. Yamato geeks should check it out.
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In the current economic environment, Imagi has been scrambling to keep Astro financed. There plans are to do Gatchaman, then Tusker, but there are a lot of hurtles to clear before that's a reality
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A few weeks back because the animation studio couldn't cover payroll? Where does this thing stand now?
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So I'll see it.
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Jetter Mars was essentially a remake of Tetsuwan Atomu in which Astro and some of the other characters were slightly reworked by Tezuka because he was on a deadline and couldn't re-acquire the Tetsuwan Atomu copyrights in time to produce the color Tetsuwan Atomu series he really wanted to make. Jetter Mars, like Astro Boy, is a powerful robot built in the image of a boy. The two scientists who created him are Dr. Yamanoue (who created Jetter's body) and Dr. Kawashimo (who created his mind). The disagreement between them mirrors the disagreement in Tetsuwan Atomu between Dr. Tenma and Dr. Elefun, respectively. Several episodes were remakes of earlier Tetsuwan Atomu stories. A total of 27 episodes were produced. Jetter Mars is often regarded by Tezuka fans as one of his weakest efforts, though Tezuka was under some financial pressure at the time, and was unable to wait for the copyright dispute to be resolved. Other Tezuka fans defend the series as the best Tezuka was able to do under the circumstances, and that there was really nothing wrong with it that wouldn't have been corrected had it been produced as a Tetsuwan Atomu series.
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The latest statement http://tinyurl.com/ak89ot was that they received bridge funding that would carry them over until they got what they needed from private equity companies
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Sad indeed.... Here's to hoping that Imagi can get some capital to continue these projects...
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But I doubt the former will happen and I have strong doubts about the latter as well.
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For a short fan film (in spanish, btw), its not half bad. I like the costumes, and the ship work is decent. File this under the heading "stuff that will never actually happen, and probably shouldn't, but I admire the attempt."
http://tinyurl.com/cuk76p
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At one point, there was supposed to be a French one with Warren Ellis attached http://tinyurl.com/cf7zjt would have been impressive
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That is one of the most boring and bland character designs. I love the anime, but I still hate the way most "humans" are done in CG. Awful.
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I'd be happy to post a report from the screening, AICN chiefs of staff. :)
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FACT.
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Feb 04, 2009 11:05:27 AM CST
Nasty Pasty don't be silly. Even if the west don't watch it
by damien chowder
Asia will watch it seven times over.
But it all depends on the story and directing because Turtles was shite. -
...no big deal really.
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AICN EXCLUSIVEAnd _droid_ has an excellent point. Was Bigelow ever considered for the Terminator sequel? That woman deserves more projects and A-properties. Bad blood between her and Cameron?
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Feb 04, 2009 12:07:49 PM CST
They are making Astro Boy look too much like a live boy!
by bob cryptonight
He looks like the SON of the scientist, not the ROBOT the scientist built to look like his dead kid. The features are too soft or something...
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Humans are _very_ stylized in the manga, so CGI might work well for them. Not as creepy as it is when animated 'realistic' humans.
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I was just thinking a few weeks ago how awesome a cgi megaman movie would be, looks like astroboy is gonna ful fill that fantasy!
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I watched this cartoon on American TV in the mid 60's and loved it. It fell by the wayside and now I own all of the new stuff on DVD along with all of the originals released on DVD a few years back. I watch them with my son and while he is not nearly as enamored as I was at his age.....I still love it. Count me in when the movie comes out. Color me a big fan regardless of how the features look. It certainly looks fine to me and is easily recognizable as Astro.
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although it gets repetitive with the whole bomb-defusing shit over and over again, and there isn't much of a story. its just a bunch of tense sequences strung together by a thread that are cool to watch. its a good war film cause its not political. it takes no sides. this movie could've starred sly and seagal and just fucking owned. i agree this is more of an action film than an iraq war movie.
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...a fusion of Astroboy and Aquaman? He was a human instead of a robot (I think, anyway) and, by chewing "Oxygum", invented by his father, he could breathe underwater. It was syndicated on a local Philadelphia station back in the mid-to-late 1970's, I've never seen it since. Anyone knows, let me know... I don't even remember the title of the damn thing.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Boy
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or spikes or whatever they are. omg it doesnt look like the original! WWWAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
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You know, that ain't bad. For a show I last watched when I was 4, I find myself strangely excited for this film. Damn well better have that song, though...
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no astroboy suction sound walking = fail.
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...like I said, been a lonnnng time since I saw that one. It's really just a vague memory from my childhood. Glad to know the show actually existed.
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good and does well
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but of course Harry will love it when they pay him off.
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Holy crap, that could have been friggin' great!
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I can't decide which I could possibly be even less interested in. We're looking at two epic bombs here...
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French speakers would go watch this till they bankrupt themselves.
Asia will watch anything Western.
The rest of the world will watch any dum shite. Tintin ain't any dumb shite. -
It's what we're made of. Nice to see Engrish in the background! Certainly looking forward to this!
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So Astroboy will star the mascot from a burger chain. Huh. http://manolomen.com/images/big-boy.jpg
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Feb 04, 2009 7:04:09 PM CST
The Japanese live-action Astro Boy looks better than this.
by uncle stan
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Goddamn that restaurant was awesome!!!!!!!
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Why do they have to do this? If I'm to go by these stills they have turned Astro Boy bland and generic. Color me less than excited.
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wear that shirt and pants the entire movie is he?Where's his black shorts and red boots?
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Just sayin'.
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The cartoon itself was rather bland looking. Were you expecting realistic looking character's and worlds? It's a cartoon first.
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We see today's art of movie making as something rather simplistic. That isn't earned, but rather easily attainable. Where 20 or 30 years ago. There were no computers and therefore more of a struggle and ambition to create the wonderful things we saw on the BIG screen.
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I'd go so far as to say we're cynical because we not only know more about how film is made, we now go so far as to expect such knowledge. Not long ago, it was taboo to understand how the magician performed his trick. Now, it's nearly the opposite.
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This is one of those things that should be successful but will fucking tank at the box office anyway. Mostly because the animation is completely uninspired and fails to grab your attention. Also the general public has no fucking clue what an Astro Boy is.
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Warner Brothers did a cute parody on an episode of Freakazoid called "Hero Boy".
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I agree with some of you that he looks a little too human.
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Can I sit on your lap?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shz79sHoXs8
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Bigelow hasn't done anything worth seeing since Cameron stopped banging her but I'm intrigued by this, whats it about?
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*YAWN*
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Never heard of Astro Boy, but then again I've never like Anime (except for Ghost in the Shell). But Big Guy and Rusty was pretty cool.
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Which is pretty much true for any CGI film, but the 2003 cartoon is a good example what happens when people miss the central point of Astro Boy: a robot with a soul and the personality of a child but which is also a highly equipped killing machine (once again I'll spruik the little-known 1980s cartoon version, the only one done with Tezuka's direct participation ... see it, see it, see it !!!)
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..theirs no mass audience appeal for old anime's that they've never heard of.
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Did you think of that all by yourself?
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