WB Setting Peter Segal & Dan Mazeau to Develop the 'Bleach' Movie by Alex Billington February 22, 2012 Source: Variety http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/wb-setting-peter-segal-dan-mazeau-to-develop-a-bleach-movie/ Well we all knew this was coming, I'll be an optimist and say it could be good...........................take that with a heavy dose of optimism. I think the biggest problem is that like with most animes that Hollywood is trying to turn into a live action movie you can't tell this story in 2 hours, and you can't make a guarantee that you'll get to make a sequel (see: Dragonball and The Last Airbender, the latter of which was clearly supposed to be the first in a series of movies).
After what they did to Dragonball Z, I have no faith in Hollywood. Seriously, DBZ is the easiest concept ever, and they turned it into some weird High School Musical Drama?
It didn't take that for me to have no faith in Hollywood with regards to anime. This is called desperation, though to be fair some of it is that they now have the technology to actually take a stab at making these movies (same applies to comic and video game movies), but for the most part I view it as Hollywood lacking ideas so this is just a "new funnel" they can turn to. Nothing I haven't talked about already with regards to the attempts to make another anime into a US live action movie who's name we shall not mention.
Anger Management - bad 50 First Dates - really bad Get Smart - okay Wrath of the Titans - meh The Flash - the TV show from the early 90s? Johnny Quest - what? Plus they'd have trouble fitting even a distilled version of the general first arc into a 2 hour film.
