LegionAgent
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Didn't saw a thread about this, nor a post on the community. Cancel me if old.
So, Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura on tv series "Heroes", is producing a Mega Man film. As a producer, his latest film was, to my surprise, Netflix's Death Note. This part crushed my soul. I might be biased, since I watched Death Note last week and to me it was more of a live action abridged of Death Note than anything else. And with the new Mega Man cartoon from Men of Action (Ben 10) coming next year, I can only hope it's at least decent and pays some homage to the videogames. Here are some quotes from an interview he had with Collider recently about Death Note and this project:
I'm not gonna lie, Mega Man is THE number 1 video game franchise for me, and I can't stand the lack of support to it since Mega Man Legends 3 was cancelled. After that it was just one bad thing after another: Rockman Xover, no new projects and even it's spiritual successor, Might Nº9, was hot trash. It only gets respect in the form of Smash and the upcoming Marvel vs Capcom. It's really sad, as a huge Mega Man fan, to see what it has come to. I just want the Blue Bomber to get a break, and so I can only hope that the cartoon and the film are good, even though everything I've seen from the first (concept art plus the intro) doesn't seem to indicate so, and the producer from the second just recently gave us a comedy adaptation of Death Note. Still, gotta keep those hopes up, for everlasting peace. At this rate I'll have to become a film maker/animator/game designer to make Mega Man the justice it deserves. Well, one can dream. What are your thoughts GAF?
EDIT: forgot to add the source http://collider.com/masi-oka-death-note-nega-man-movie-interview/#meg
So, Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura on tv series "Heroes", is producing a Mega Man film. As a producer, his latest film was, to my surprise, Netflix's Death Note. This part crushed my soul. I might be biased, since I watched Death Note last week and to me it was more of a live action abridged of Death Note than anything else. And with the new Mega Man cartoon from Men of Action (Ben 10) coming next year, I can only hope it's at least decent and pays some homage to the videogames. Here are some quotes from an interview he had with Collider recently about Death Note and this project:
Are you still working on producing a Mega Man movie?
OKA: We've just started the Mega Man movie. The writer/directors are working on a script right now, and we're just in the beginning development stages of that.
What are you most excited about with that, and are there challenges specific to producing a story that's based on a best-selling video game vs. a hugely popular manga?
OKA: With manga, there's a lot of character development and it's a serialized story. With a video game, it's about game mechanics. The story might be a little bit lighter. There are definitely challenges with that, but I'm excited because our directors are big fans of the game. With anything animated, a game property, or anything IP, you want to make sure the filmmakers are huge fans because they'll show a respect for the property and understand, at the core, what makes that property great. I don't know where it's going to go yet, but I am excited about Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. They're great filmmakers and they're really big fans of Mega Man.
I'm not gonna lie, Mega Man is THE number 1 video game franchise for me, and I can't stand the lack of support to it since Mega Man Legends 3 was cancelled. After that it was just one bad thing after another: Rockman Xover, no new projects and even it's spiritual successor, Might Nº9, was hot trash. It only gets respect in the form of Smash and the upcoming Marvel vs Capcom. It's really sad, as a huge Mega Man fan, to see what it has come to. I just want the Blue Bomber to get a break, and so I can only hope that the cartoon and the film are good, even though everything I've seen from the first (concept art plus the intro) doesn't seem to indicate so, and the producer from the second just recently gave us a comedy adaptation of Death Note. Still, gotta keep those hopes up, for everlasting peace. At this rate I'll have to become a film maker/animator/game designer to make Mega Man the justice it deserves. Well, one can dream. What are your thoughts GAF?
EDIT: forgot to add the source http://collider.com/masi-oka-death-note-nega-man-movie-interview/#meg