Universal Pictures To Produce Pluto Live-Action Film

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Postby Dr. Jerk » 13 years ago

Considering how realistic the artwork in the Pluto manga was, it seems very likely for it to be live-action, with realistic CGI for the robots obviously. I'm pretty sure I'm just repeating something that was said earlier by someone else.

And Androids, Australia does have anime.

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Postby Androids101 » 13 years ago

Of course its CGI.
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Postby Dr. Jerk » 13 years ago

No, I meant actual anime.

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Postby F-Man » 13 years ago

I agree that we may get realistic looking CGI robots, in the vein of Transformers maybe. The studio could actually afford it (well, maybe not as good but close enough).
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Postby cybotron » 13 years ago

"Fauna" wrote:A) Cybertron, there is such a thing as Imageshack. Go use it, and stop dedicating whole posts to one cryptic sentence and a giant picture.

B) Every time I click on this thread, I expect something about the movie. I get, instead, about four words out of the repeat offenders out of something random. I hate to get mad this suddenly, but I really must side with F-Man on this...everyone please be more on-topic. Go make a thread in General Discussion to house your random stream of consciousness.

A picture is worth a thousand words. I think the OO1 and OO2 Pluto pictures have enuff force and artistic substance to speak for themselves.
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Dark work? The city is falling,Astro saves it. Down to Earth it comes.
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But you Guys have read Pluto. You know what it's like. Cora is a survivor of a Cyber Ghetto. President Stone wants to wage war on the surface. War! On Cora and the people she is with. The surface is a Junk pile, the ruins of the consumer electronics age. I have not heard from any of you one single word of any meaningfulness concerning Astroboy the movie! Not one word of praise for the brave writers and for the artists that dared to make such a faboo commentary on Life as it exists in this world of Evolving sociopolitical and sociotechnological change! But we do not talk Cinema! We do not talk about Astroboy. :tenma:
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Postby F-Man » 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure the Astro Boy movie was not comparing the east and west: you're looking too far into it. The rest you're pretty much right with, showing ruins of the electronics age, and the city falling to the ground is indeed the classic Fritz Lang's Metropolis theme. The city is called Metro City for a reason. I think all this stuff is pretty common sense and you make it sound a bit too deep by using big words. However it is interesting stuff that would make some good conversation if you made a thread dedicated to it.
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Postby Dr. Jerk » 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure they only used the name Metro City in the film to make it sound familiar, as the name was used in the 2003 anime. And as far as I know, there were no ruins around the 2003's Metro City.

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Postby cybotron » 13 years ago

"Dr. Jerk" wrote:I'm pretty sure they only used the name Metro City in the film to make it sound familiar, as the name was used in the 2003 anime. And as far as I know, there were no ruins around the 2003's Metro City.

Zog was a ruin....
And the Garbage heap of electronics that Astro fell into is a ruin... :astro:
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Postby F-Man » 13 years ago

"Dr. Jerk" wrote:I'm pretty sure they only used the name Metro City in the film to make it sound familiar, as the name was used in the 2003 anime. And as far as I know, there were no ruins around the 2003's Metro City.


That's true. But it's still nearly impossible to make a robot sci-fi anything nowadays without the inspiration of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Without that movie, the city in the 2003 Astro Boy would have had a different name. And although we don't know, it's quite possible that the name itself gave the movie writers the idea to have it fall back to the ground by the end.
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Postby cybotron » 13 years ago

And not East and West... That's Industrial age thought.
Red Core and Blue Core is more timely. In this world we need the Red Chinese workers and the Chinese state control to have any vestige of the consumer society. And we need the Blue Capitalist eco control to keep the same.
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