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AICN Anime-Writer Announced For Gatchaman

First! by CaptainCosmos	Jun 14th, 2007 09:21:11 PM
Hah!
Isn't there a live action Gatchaman movie coming? by MisterE	Jun 14th, 2007 09:22:30 PM
Are there two Gatchaman movies in the works?
"Classic 70's Gatchaman"? by LoneGun	Jun 14th, 2007 09:24:10 PM
I grew up in the 70's and I've never heard of this.
used to love Battle of the Planets by Sir Loin	Jun 14th, 2007 09:24:55 PM
...as a kid, be interesting to see how they update it for today's ADD crowd.
I knocked out 85 episodes in 4 nights by proper	Jun 14th, 2007 09:25:18 PM
during the hostel war last week.Once you ff the titles and 7 zark 7 it was done in 13 minutes an ep.I still whistle certain musical cues randomly.I won't be going out of my way to catch this.I'm sick to the back teeth of this franchise for some reason :).Good luck to them though.Transmute.......
Loved Karate Kid by veritasses	Jun 14th, 2007 09:30:38 PM
not so much Fifth Element, not at all LW3. I would've preferred the Wachowski's pen and direct this instead of Speed Racer.
That logo... by Neddie Seagoon	Jun 14th, 2007 09:43:24 PM
...is so going on my desktop. I'll watch this even if it sucks. It can't suck much worse than the source material (and I love the original. But let's face it, it wasn't very good. Cool, yes. Very cool. Just not very good).
Also Wrote by Fievel	Jun 14th, 2007 09:46:07 PM
Taps & The Transporter. Interesting resume.
LOOOOOVE THIS by TiNSeLToWN TeRRoR	Jun 14th, 2007 09:54:29 PM
CAN'T WAIT!
Best ever Gatchaman site... by MisterE	Jun 14th, 2007 10:24:49 PM
http://tinyurl.com/ys9y8l
Drawings/renderings are pretty cool. by superninja	Jun 14th, 2007 10:30:40 PM
Animated is much better than live action for this property. Probably a whole lot of properties should go this route.
If the animation looks as good as those concept images by Johnno	Jun 14th, 2007 10:38:09 PM
I'm so there!!!
Misleading headline... by Latauro	Jun 14th, 2007 11:24:21 PM
I thought for a second that Scott Green was the announced writer!
LoneGun by Angelus_420	Jun 14th, 2007 11:34:24 PM
It was called Battle of the Planets or G-Force in the US in the 70s. No one here remembers Gatchaman in the 70s and those that say they do is lying because it was never called that here and didn't show up here as Gatchaman until the late 80s early 90s.
CG is a good way to go but live-action would be killer! by captboulder	Jun 15th, 2007 02:51:08 AM
I think they could go live-action with SFX and whatnot. But the property is mostly unknown here and I can see the precaution of not investing too much money in it!
Maybe the best CG animated Superhero film... by seventhbrother	Jun 15th, 2007 04:47:32 AM
since The Incredibles that is. Gatchaman has all the right elements for an all out science fiction-ninja action flick. The concept art is outstanding and I hope they capture that mood. I knew this as Battle Of the Planets first but loved it all the same. I thought it was a very sophisticated cartoon at the time and a bit violent in a comic book way. BTW anyone notice "Jason/Joe" walking with a cigarette in his hand in one of the street shots above?
Mecha? by Rei-Ginsei	Jun 15th, 2007 05:21:01 AM
Those mecha look like robotic versions of the bugs from "Starship Troopers". I've never seen the show, but a friend keeps trying to convince me to take a gander.
glad to see a classic updated by palewook	Jun 15th, 2007 08:03:12 AM
should be shiny goodness with the people attached on this project
Worries by Prof_Ender	Jun 15th, 2007 01:17:59 PM
Hrm. It's hard not to get excited about those pictures, but I really hope there isn't some kind of last minute fuck-up or something that retroactively nullifies the project -- cough PRINCESS OF MARS cough cough!!. The key thing that worried me was that announcement a month or two back about Takashi Miike announcing HIS own liveaction GATCHAMAN movie. Would that clash with the production of this movie? In a perfect world, I'd love to see both Miike's and Munroe's versions of these characters. Like a lot of folks, GATCHAMAN was part of my childhood (the BATTLE OF THE PLANETS version, it played on re-runs on some backwater channel when I lived in Jersey) and I would hate to see this fucked over.
LIVE ACTION GATCHAMAN by swan_jun	Jun 18th, 2007 08:04:21 PM
YES there IS a live action Gatchaman movie in the works. From what i have heard, it will definitely be released in japan. It MIGHT NOT be released in the US market. This link THE HOME OF THE WHITE SHADOW http://www.chronicsite.com/gat chaman/gatchnews.html#liveacti on PARTIAL QUOTE from HOME OF THE WHITE SHADOW website ".... Nikkatsu Corp. announced it has greenlit LIVE ACTION movie adaptations of both Gatchaman and Yatterman ...." If any further movie infor comes out, THIS site will be sure to get it.
Gatchaman name (Lone Gun's post) by swan_jun	Jun 18th, 2007 08:10:14 PM
Just for the record, I have come across a few people from Canada and the USA whose parents worked in japan in the 70's. As a result, they DID see the original Gatchaman and were well aware of the original series name, that it was editted out when they saw BOTP etc. So, unless you can make an INFORMED comment on something....

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