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5 Unrealized Western Anime Movies
by Jacki Jing & Lynzee Loveridge,
The live-action Alita: Battle Angel live-action film, too. Glad to be wrong 15 years later!
For every adaptation that does see the light of day, there's a handful more that are still stuck somewhere in the writing room. This week we'll look at five Hollywood anime adaptations that almost happened!
This dark sibling vampire tale once had big dreams of being live-action horror feature. The vampire story follows a pair of siblings afflicted with a genetic condition that makes them thirst for blood. Kei has been separated from his his sister Chizuru for a long time, but once the symptoms begin to surface they get back in touch, literally and figuratively, as Chizuru attempts to help him work through his urges. A live-action version was shopped around by Takahiko Akiyama was attached to direct the 120-minute film under the title Love Like Blood but with a budget of less than US$6 million, Love Like Blood's time ran out.
4. Voltron
One of the worst things that can happen to a live-action film project - beyond it never hitting theaters - is investors suing to get back their lost funding or film options. That's part of what happened when David Hayter penning the script.
Bankruptcy was the final nail in the coffin for the Tiger & Bunny Hollywood film. Film studio Global Road Entertainment was one of the partners for the proposed film but it filed for Chapter 11 bankrupcy in 2018 and started selling its unreleased films. The company had accrued nearly up to 500 million in debt. Unless another stalwart studio decides to take the lead, it looks like we may never see Kotetsu's goatee in all of its glory.
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1. Akira
This film has a history a mile long, so pop yourself some popcorn. Hollywood A-Lister Leonardo DiCaprio has been trying to produce a film based on Warner Bros. had formally shut the whole production down in 2012. The project circled around yet again in 2015, this time with Daredevil writer Marco Ramirez attached and new director talks, plans for production to start in Fall 2019 and a premiere date of May 21, 2021 but SURPRISE, that fell through too. As of this month Thor 3 director Taika Waititi has said the film is still going to get made, the script is still being worked on, and there probably won't be any movement on it until after Thor 4.
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