Wednesday 14 October 2015
The idea behind me adapting Gansta, is that i want to adapt the anime series into something original and creative, whilst maintaining the integrity of the characters and the story. In me adapting this series, i'll be appropriating it into a new setting revamping the story, by finding a similar location to that of the one in the series, but changing up the props to more modern westernised props, and possibly further developing the characteristics of the characters into a personality that will more fit a live performance; as in anime the characters at times tend to have eccentric personalities to that of actual live performers.
The adaptation process will be similar to that of the DC comic adaptations done by Warner brothers, appropriating and developing the characters whole style and personality, plus location into a more modern realistic setting of one that a 'modern' western audience would be accustomed to.
Examples of DC adaptation by Warner Brothers
There has been quite a few live action adaptations of anime and manga series made by various big studios and also indie movie producers. These adaptations have varied in that they've either appropriated the technology featured within the series, the characters and action, location and/or the whole story, revamping it into a whole new modern idea.
The adaptations made by major studios have ranged from really good; keeping to the story and the characteristics and personalities of the characters to really terrible, ruining the integrity of the story, changing the characters roles completely. Here's some examples below.
(The list of trailers are presented Anime first, then the adapted live action straight after)
Professional big budget studio produced adaptations:
Dragon ball z
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| http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/ |
Attack on Titan
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| http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2072230/?ref_=nv_sr_1 |
Parasyte The Maxim
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| http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3345472/ |
Assasination Classroom
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| http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4341930/ |
Indie anime live action productions:
All of these indie live action productions are fan made, in that these indie produces love the manga/anime series and have decided to adapt them into their own original live action idea, appropriating certain elements of the manga/anime such as the characters from the stories, the location design in which the stories take place, plus further developing the characters into a realistic contemporary environment; revamping the stories into something new and original.
Akira Project
Power/rangers bootleg
Naruto Live action trailers
Dragon Ball Z Fan adaptations
Below is a list of various fan made adaptations of the popular series dragon ball z, made by various indie studios. Because the series is so popular, it has been adapted into many different directing styles, plus various elements of the series story has been appropriated and adapted into a whole new idea.
Having explored all of these examples of anime to live action adaptations, should give you an idea of how i'm looking to go about adapting the anime series Gangsta into a live action series.
Watching these examples has definitely given me an insight on how to go about adapting an already existing idea, showing me various aspects that i could look at when appropriating and adapting an animated concept into a live action production.
