Daily Variety reporting that Doug Liman will direct Warner Bros manga adaptation All You Need Is Kill. Deadline told you it was headed that way on June 15.
TOLDJA! Doug Liman Directing ‘All You Need Is Kill’
By MIKE FLEMING | Monday August 23, 2010 @ 8:44pm EDTTags: Doug Liman
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Hope he does something radically different with this cool work.
Good
Three Musketeers is such a boring idea to do again. Is there any story that’s been adapted to screen more than that one?
You’re right. I’ve lost count of the number of adaptations I’ve seen of this. Period films don’t usually do too well and it’s hard to recreate pre-revolutionary France on a modest budget. Presumably the 3D version is relying on lucrative tax credits. Isn’t it being filmed in Germany? Must be the same financial setup as Speed Racer, where about 25% of the budget was covered. Hope that doesn’t jinx them!
Killer script. Lots of pressure to not blow it and make a dud.
Agreed.
Sounds like it could be a title of a Steven Seagal movie, lol.
Does this effectively kill Spahits’ ‘Shadow 19′? Hope not. Even though they seem to have similar plots, Shadow 19 was a kickass read.
Fingers crossed for a Dantes Peak/Volcano, or Armageddon/Deep Impact, situation.
This will be as big of hit as the last great Japanese adaptation: Aeon Flux.
Manga adaptations will be as DOA as Scott Pilgrim. What good is existing material if .5% of the movie going public even knows what the hell it is? BUT if anyone can do it, Doug Liman has a shot.
@ Turk: that’s a specious argument at best. Many literary works had tiny pre-existing fanbases, but rocked the theaters as big grosses. Planet of the Apes immediately springs to mind. There are many others too if you use the Google.
Is Liman still coasting on being the guy who did BOURNE IDENTITY?
ALRIGHT! Enough is enough. Warner Bros, I understand that it’s still early days for this project, but seriously, change the title.
A literal English translation of a Japanese novel title (such is my understanding) is an AWFUl idea for a film title.
But in saying that I really enjoyed the script but as I’ve always said about this project, the choice of director isn’t the interesting part but the choice of lead.
The script reads like a potential Zac Effron vehicle, but is he (and WB) ready to have him headline a major sci-fi actioner?
Hmmmmm.
The script was horrible! It’s STORMSHIP TROOPERS meets GROUNDHOG’S DAY. I know it’s based off a graphic novel, but c’mon… we all know that Simon Crane actually directed the majority of MR. & MRS. SMITH; and JUMPER was OK at best. I don’t know why WB thinks Doug can really pull this off. SHADOW 19 would’ve been a better choice if WB didn’t pay so much $$$ for AYNIK.
@santa I’ve heard of this google you speak of. Quite the device.
Classifying Magna as literature is also a specious argument. Many great novels from the 60′s and 70′s and earlier found a home in Hollywood and made money. They were written by American and European authors and had real literary bonafides. Times have changed. Those books aren’t even getting published these days. I don’t need Google for that.
The point is, as @Warner Borg hits upon, the audience has extremely little to identify with in Japanese “literature”, whether it be a comic book delivered by the crate to your production company/agency, or a literary masterpiece by the likes of Murakami.
If those blockbusters adapted from Japan are out there, I’ll gladly concede the point, but for now, I’m going to put the “Jonah Hex” on this one.
@ Turk: The crux of your argument was that All You Need Is Kill had a small audience as Magna. I counter argued that many pieces of literature that were adapted in the past 100 years or so of cinema also had tiny audiences in printed form (see also: literary as a synonym), but had much larger audiences as adapted film.
You did not refute my argument but attempted to straw man it by then appealing to “real literary bonafides”, whatever that means. Oh yeah, Zane Grey was a real Hemmingway. /sarcasm
If you are biased against magna, then at least come out and just say it in the beginning. Last I heard magna and graphic novels were still an ink on paper art form with words & plot & character development, therefore literary by definition.
Road to Perdition had a relatively small audience as a graphic novel and did well as a motion picture.
I could go on, but you have already made up your mind. Too bad.
CALLED IT!!! I told you Nikki would get the scoop on this Liman business! You’re the real deal, Nikki!