Knights of the Zodiac (Saint Seiya live action film)

[Mad Pierrot]

The Eiga.com news website reported on Friday that a Hollywood live-action film based on Masami Kurumada's Saint Seiya manga has been green-lit. Toei Animation and Chinese distribution company A Really Good Film Company (ARGF) are co-producing the film.

Polish director Tomasz Bagiński, who previously directed the Academy Award-nominated short animation "Katedra," is directing the film. Toei Animation's Yoshiyuki Ikezawa and Kozo Morishita will serve as producer and executive producer, respectively.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...d-film/.116261

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How many of you are willing to bet that the story will skip right to the Sanctuary Arc?

Also, I really don't know how anyone can properly pull this off without a good amount of budget and somebody who actually knows the inside-out of the source material and also knows how to change and adapt it for a live-action film. I mean, there are so many stupid things in Saint Seiya that they shouldn't just put them in live-action movie. Bring out the good stuffs and leave the bad stuffs for the anime/manga only.

[Mad Pierrot]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

How many of you are willing to bet that the story will skip right to the Sanctuary Arc?

Like another Legend of Sanctuary? The big problem with Saint Seiya's arcs is that all are episodic so the CGI film tried to change some parts like when Aiolia became hypnotized or when Seiya, Shun and Ikki face Milo and Shura at the same time.

I'm not too confident about this. My reaction to first hearing this was this




Still, at least Toei is working too.

EDIT: Something I am interested is how are they gonna design the Cloths. Will be they be based on the ones from the late Shingo Araki, the next ones by Michi Himeno or something new.

[SidVicious]

Curious to see the designs for the Cloths ...

[dmaxzero]

This is something I do not wish to see.

[Galaxian]

I actually liked Legend of Sanctuary despise its flaws (Shocker, I know, I'll give you all a few seconds to let it settle... Ok? Ok...) Hopefully, this will be at least as enjoyable as LoS.

[DMurphy]

Originally Posted by Galaxian

I actually liked Legend of Sanctuary despise its flaws (Shocker, I know, I'll give you all a few seconds to let it settle... Ok? Ok...) Hopefully, this will be at least as enjoyable as LoS.

Same.

LoS was a very flawed film, but it was a lot of fun, and absolutely beautifully animated to boot.

[Diluc]

This is bullshit. it's will be dragon ball evolution all over again.

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Originally Posted by ANN

The film, titled Knights of the Zodiac, stars Mackenyu (Pacific Rim: Uprising, Rurouni Kenshin Saishūshō The Final, live-action Chihayafuru films), Madison Iseman (Jumanji sequels, I Know What You Did Last Summer television series), Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, Snowpiercer series), Famke Janssen (X-Men, Taken, The Vault), Nick Stahl (Fear the Walking Dead), Diego Tinoco (On My Block), and Mark Dacascos (John Wick: Parebellum, Hawaii Five-O, Crying Freeman, Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, Iron Chef America).

Polish animator and special effects creator Tomasz Baginski (Academy Award-nominated short animation "Katedra," The Witcher) is directing for Toei with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Andy Cheng (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is the stunt coordinator and fight coordinator. Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken (10 Cloverfield Lane) are the latest writers of the film script. Toei is distributing in Japan, and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions is distributing outside Japan except in China and the Middle East.

A "first look" will be shown at San Diego Comic Con.

[SidVicious]

This will be worse than Dragon Ball Evolution...

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by SidVicious

This will be worse than Dragon Ball Evolution...

I don't know, it's kinda hard to top it. But I certainly don't expect it to be good.

I wish they'd understand battle shounen don't translate well into live-action.

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Originally Posted by Kanon

I wish they'd understand battle shounen don't translate well into live-action.

Bleach LA is actually pretty good though. So it really depends on the material and how the filmmakers adapt it. The possibility for success is still there even though might be (extremely) small.

[Frontier]

I don't really have any high expectations for this but apparently the stunt-director for Shang-Chi is involved so that might mean good things from an action perspective.

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So the SDCC promise turn out to be mostly nothing-burger but based on this Variety article, they're already shooting in Bulgaria.

And if you read that article, the fact that the Toei producer, Ikezawa Yoshi, is already making this first live action movie with the "setting up for 5 sequels"-attitude has me extremely worried because this sounds too much like Universal's failed "Dark Universe" project or the much-maligned "Percy Jackson" movies that could only go as far as two movies.

[Kanon]

Six movies? Dream on

This will suffer the same fate as Dragon Ball Evolution, which also had more movies planned IIRC.

[Frontier]

Okay, I'm going to humor them :

Movie 2: Sanctuary

Movie 3: Asgard

Movie 4: Poseidon

Movie 5: Hades

Movie 6: Elysium

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YouTube

https://youtu.be/KtZff8H7zfg

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Still no Saint Cloth in sight....

[Galaxian]

Dread it... Run from it... But at the end a trailer always arrives...

YouTube

https://youtu.be/-RVDLXw7E0M

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[Mad Pierrot]

Mackenkyu who recently became famous for doing Enishi's role in Rurouni Kenshin The Final plays the role of Seiya which makes me wonder how exactly is the fight coreography is meant to be. The manga's one is so simple it needs to be completly remade. Sean Bean will be Marin so I think he is dead. Apparently the movie will be all the Sanctuary which would be a blessing considering the mess that was the CGI movie

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Mad Pierrot

Mackenkyu who recently became famous for doing Enishi's role in Rurouni Kenshin The Final plays the role of Seiya which makes me wonder how exactly is the fight coreography is meant to be. The manga's one is so simple it needs to be completly remade. Sean Bean will be Marin so I think he is dead. Apparently the movie will be all the Sanctuary which would be a blessing considering the mess that was the CGI movie

WHAT

Mark my words, the CGI movie will be considered a masterpiece compared to the Live-action. In fact, I quite liked it, looked great visually and the action was good.