*spittake*

[the_narration]

Aww, I wanted to make that remake! Sam Raimi beat me to the punch!

(How did I not hear about this sooner?)
Hope it's well-done and attracts some new viewers to the original.

(Huh... first La Femme Nikita and now this? Suddenly there's an interest in remaking shows with French titles from ten years ago about female assassins. Coincidence?)

Comments

[spectralbovine]

Whaaaat. Okay, I guess it's time to pop in those DVDs!

[the_narration]

I was rather surprised myself! I'd been under the impression that any plans for a live-action adaptation had died years ago.

(And Raimi's involvement was totaly unexpected. "Subtlety" isn't usually the first thing you think of when you think of Sam Raimi. Hope he doesn't screw this up.)

Heh. By weird coincidence, I'd just loaned my Noir DVDs to guy I know through work and his housemate a few weeks ago, because I'm joining their gaming group and wanted to give them an idea of the sort of stunts my character was going to be doing. The response as been quite enthusiastic.

[roxybisquaint]

I've seen you talk about Noir before and all I knew is that it was anime... which kept me from learning more ;) Now that I've read the description, it sounds pretty cool. I hope the live action version turns out good because I have a feeling I'd like it.

[the_narration]

I like Noir a lot, and won't reiterate the reasons why since I've rambled on at length on the subject in other posts. Suffice it to say that it wasn't like any anime I'd ever seen before. I definitely agreed that you'd probably like it. Take Sarah and Cameron from TSCC, give them a dysfunctional and codependent relationship, make them the subject of messianic expectations instead of John, and make Weaver way better at manipulating people with a writing staff that actually plans its myth arcs in advance... and you'd have something kind of like Noir.

What gives me some trepidation about this remake, tho, is that one of the great things about Noir is how subtle it is: never exposit what you can imply, never say outright what they can figure out for themselves. But Sam Raimi's never struck me as a very subtle sort: his films are more like "never drop a hint when you can drop an anvil, and maybe start a three stooges routine."