I assume you already know about this - and I have no idea how faithful it is to the original, but in on the offchance you didn't hear about it, they made a live-action movie trilogy adaptation of 20th Century Boys in Japan (though I'm sure a version with German or English subs would be available) released over the course of 2008/2009.
I'm not sure I want to see it. 20th CB is 24 volumes of densely packed plot with something like 20 or more main characters, spanning something like four or five decades (from the 1970s to the future); there's no way they could squeeze even half of it into three movies. And I care too much about the manga to see it butchered.
My god, it's scary...hmpfJanuary 20 2010, 01:20:34 UTC
... how closely the movies get the *look* of the manga right. Nearly every frame in these trailers feels like it comes directly from the manga, and, even more amazingly, the actors look nearly exactly like their manga counterparts, too. (I remember noticing this when I watched the very first teaser trailer, in 2008 or so, but I'd forgotten how uncanny it was.)
Re: Random geek fact about me:beccatoriaJanuary 20 2010, 11:02:24 UTC
Hee! I love how many replies this created... ;)
Wikipedia claims that the final film was released in August 2009 in both Japan and the USA, but...maybe it didn't happen? At least in the UK foreign films or films that don't do excellently in the US are always being shelved, pushed back for release or sent straight to DVD...
I do understand that worry about how well it'll translate into a movie. I'm not even a particularly huge Harry Potter fan and while I love the "look" of the movies I often find myself disappointed by the stuff they left out (okay, that's a problem in some movies more than others).
I do know that apparently it was some epic undertaking of filmmaking in Japan, though again, to compare to HP, that doesn't necessarily mean it will be what you want it to be.
Re: Random geek fact about me:hmpfJanuary 20 2010, 14:29:40 UTC
Hehe, yes, I've rediscovered my 20th CB love big time, it seems. Spent nearly all night rereading the books. Well, or rather, I spent the night *beginning* to reread the series - I only managed a couple of volumes, of course. This will probably take a couple of weeks or so
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I'm not sure I want to see it. 20th CB is 24 volumes of densely packed plot with something like 20 or more main characters, spanning something like four or five decades (from the 1970s to the future); there's no way they could squeeze even half of it into three movies. And I care too much about the manga to see it butchered.
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http://www.4digitalmedia.com/20cb/trailers-20thcen.html
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But will that make a good movie, or a mess, I wonder?
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(Especially in the third part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqdxj0iSQo&feature=related)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cth3QHUDF_I&feature=related
One of the stranger... tie-ins I've encountered, I think.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UMmhdf9-Z8&feature=related
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Wikipedia claims that the final film was released in August 2009 in both Japan and the USA, but...maybe it didn't happen? At least in the UK foreign films or films that don't do excellently in the US are always being shelved, pushed back for release or sent straight to DVD...
I do understand that worry about how well it'll translate into a movie. I'm not even a particularly huge Harry Potter fan and while I love the "look" of the movies I often find myself disappointed by the stuff they left out (okay, that's a problem in some movies more than others).
I do know that apparently it was some epic undertaking of filmmaking in Japan, though again, to compare to HP, that doesn't necessarily mean it will be what you want it to be.
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