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These tipes of adaptations have been made before, one of the best examples of this that actually left a bad taste on our mouths was Dragon Ball: Evolution, however there were those who had the spirit of the properties from wich they were based on, the examples are Death Note and Ricky-ho.
There was already some talk of a Death Note american version and here we will disscuss the properties you think could work on the movie screen (you can shoose if the film should be american, japanese or from another country).
I'll start by adding that Dragon Ball had more potential, i know there's a lot of storylines but you could start clean with a first movie being a simple quest for the Dragon Ball, a la the early years, in fact, the original dragon ball (the one before DB Z) was very rich in story and had an interesting world and mythology both based on the american and japanese cultures, one thing is clear, son goku should be japanese.
The next is Death Note, it seems very american exept the idea seems like a japanese horror film and the characters have japanese names, it could work if they changed some names, they could make the first film based on Light and L chalenging each other until L's death and a potential sequel could follow the rest of the series, also, some will hate me for that but Zack efron should be Light Yagami, he looks exactly the same.
Finally lets say Naruto, i don't like it very much since the begining of Shippuden but even if this will hurt me to say but it kinda looks like a japanese version of harry potter:
kid with powers. parents are both dead, chosen in a prophecy, snake dude, talking animals, yeah it seems like harry potter.
And it could work in live action, with the special effects used these days they could make all those awesome fights, the main problem would be to cast kids that could only act with that age but to also be able to do some of the choreographies and fight scnnes, they can also use special effects and doubles for that but this way it would be easier.
The first film could even look like a stand alone and a franshise starter at the same time if they adapted the first story arc with zabuza, then in a sequel they could use the chunin exams and konoha invasion arc.
Naruto actors could be either, he has been able to look asiatic:
And American:
So if hollywood decided to make their version then they could search for a normal blonde actor.
I prefer One Piece to Naruto but Naruto would work better because One Piece just has too many storylines and could be less effective, but others can have a different oppinion, i may not know how to make it work but other person may know.
Now, before many start to complain saying things like:
Films based on anime or manga allways suck or
Hollyood making films based on anime/manga = Bad
Rember that this is only to see if some of these japanese properties could work and like films based on comic book it all depends on who makes them.
There was already some talk of a Death Note american version and here we will disscuss the properties you think could work on the movie screen (you can shoose if the film should be american, japanese or from another country).
I'll start by adding that Dragon Ball had more potential, i know there's a lot of storylines but you could start clean with a first movie being a simple quest for the Dragon Ball, a la the early years, in fact, the original dragon ball (the one before DB Z) was very rich in story and had an interesting world and mythology both based on the american and japanese cultures, one thing is clear, son goku should be japanese.
The next is Death Note, it seems very american exept the idea seems like a japanese horror film and the characters have japanese names, it could work if they changed some names, they could make the first film based on Light and L chalenging each other until L's death and a potential sequel could follow the rest of the series, also, some will hate me for that but Zack efron should be Light Yagami, he looks exactly the same.
Finally lets say Naruto, i don't like it very much since the begining of Shippuden but even if this will hurt me to say but it kinda looks like a japanese version of harry potter:
kid with powers. parents are both dead, chosen in a prophecy, snake dude, talking animals, yeah it seems like harry potter.
And it could work in live action, with the special effects used these days they could make all those awesome fights, the main problem would be to cast kids that could only act with that age but to also be able to do some of the choreographies and fight scnnes, they can also use special effects and doubles for that but this way it would be easier.
The first film could even look like a stand alone and a franshise starter at the same time if they adapted the first story arc with zabuza, then in a sequel they could use the chunin exams and konoha invasion arc.
Naruto actors could be either, he has been able to look asiatic:
And American:
So if hollywood decided to make their version then they could search for a normal blonde actor.
I prefer One Piece to Naruto but Naruto would work better because One Piece just has too many storylines and could be less effective, but others can have a different oppinion, i may not know how to make it work but other person may know.
Now, before many start to complain saying things like:
Films based on anime or manga allways suck or
Hollyood making films based on anime/manga = Bad
Rember that this is only to see if some of these japanese properties could work and like films based on comic book it all depends on who makes them.
