Comments on: Ninja Scroll Remake Announced

By: Bruce Darren Acosta

Bruce Darren Acosta — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:15:36 +0000

THRESHOLD ARE NO LONGER INVOLVED ON NINJA SCROLL,WARNER BROS IS DOING THE FILM.

Larry Kasanoff’s Threshold Entertianment had the rights to Ninja Scroll back in 2002 so Warner Bros is going to adapt the film with Leonardo
DiCaprio producing and Alex Tse writing the script.
Threshold will work on Mortal Kombat remake and they are still working out a studio to produce the film so they can still produce Ninja Scroll with Warner Bros? I think Threshold should get their hands on working more movies like doing Capcom’s Darkstalkers series.
Thank you.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.

By: Geno

Geno — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:06:19 +0000

I wouldn’t mind seeing a live action “Ninja Scroll” flick if they did the violence much like “Kill Bill”. Since Tarentino took much of the violence from Ninja Scroll for Kill Bill why not likewise? I feel that they should keep the main character asian and not have a guy who looks asian but isn’t asian.
Now the reason I am skeptic of why it won’t work is because of “Elektra”, if you have seen the anime of Ninja Scroll and then see Elektra you can easliy see the villians are knock offs from the Devils of Kimon form Ninja Scroll. And that movie sucked! So that doesn’t give me high hopes for a possible Ninja Scroll remake.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:08:04 +0000

oh please let them make it into another white guy in previous asian guy role with tonnes of hot asian women movie like dragonball, speed racer, and forbidden kingdom. yes hollyood, that is what ppl want, that is why those movies did so well…. pricks

By: Broly

Broly — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:19:53 +0000

@Darren J Seeley

The Dragonball crowd is a small pocket? Sure whatever you say.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:29:39 +0000

I recall the bad campiness of the live action Fist Of The North Star; Crying Freeman was an hard R adaptation that has never been seen in the States.

The Dragonball crowd is a small pocket.
The Speed Racer crowd was even smaller-and sucked the pop culture memories out of those who remembered it.

A Ninja Scroll flick, keeping a hard R rating sounds nice indeed. But I have to stand by the same measuring stick that I used for the Ghost In The Shell and Cowboy Bebop talk many moons ago.

You can’t get away with half the stuff you do in animation.
The violence would be watered down, topless women (especially for Ghost In The Shell) would be minimal at best, but most importantly…
*if* the intent is to have a virtual backdrop world, such as Sin City, or At Vitam Immortal, why go live action at all?

BTW, Cowboy Bebop (Heaven’s Door) and Akira are so well done that you *forget* they are animation, and are just as good as some live action films.

Footnote: I would not mind if there was a LA version of BlackJack.

By: BERNARD

BERNARD — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:03:29 +0000

As long as they write a good story, and keep the hard R rating intact, including the nude scene (what’s up with the America and nudity? I don’t get it…. Violence and guns is good. Sex and nudity is bad) which is impacting the story.

By: NoName

NoName — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:08:50 +0000

A great anime become the worst movie. It just wastes of money and film.

By: joonavar

joonavar — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:56:42 +0000

I love the types of anime that have a deeper, darker side, and Ninja Scroll is one of the better one’s out there. Anime to Movies doesn’t have a very good track record, so I would be tempted to think that this will follow suit to be honest.
Although, this has rekindled my desire to pull on that dvd and have another watch of this classic.

By: Broly

Broly — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:32:20 +0000

You know what i take that back Cowboy Bebop would make a stupid film compare to the anime.

By: Broly

Broly — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:25:07 +0000

Not that Cowboy Bebop would be a bad film, i think it could make a great film but come on this is like remaking Fight Club.

Keanu Reeves as Spike? are you fucking serious? Look theirs only one Spike and his name is Steven Blum.