Web sites, films, magazines and other cultural products made by out queer people can usually be defined as being queer media. Auteurs: Has this media product been created by queer people? Benshoff and Sean Griffin, in their book Queer Cinema: the film reader, elaborate three general criteria for identifying cultural products as queer: Auteurs, Forms, and Reception. Because of this shift, seriously engaging with and thinking about the images we consume has become more important than ever. With the exception of the most simplistically supportive or bigoted representations, there is room for much discussion and debate in determining a positive or negative LGBTQ presence. One of the most difficult things about approaching film and television’s use of queerness is that there will rarely be a single verdict on any given cultural product. The result couldn't possibly be worse than Dragonball Evolution.įollow Maxwell Yezpitelok 's heroic effort to read and comment on every '90s Superman comic at. Or, in Robotech's case, maybe grab three Japanese mecha films and slap them together with a new plot. It's pretty clear by now that the best way for Hollywood to adapt anime properties is to just. Of course, how much money it made shouldn't be the most important metric when it comes to judging a movie, but it's always kind of hilarious when giant studios spend decades on a project and the result is “we might have made 50 bucks.”
The best-received anime adaptation by a big Hollywood studio so far seems to be Robert Rodriguez's Alita: Battle Angel, which took about 19 years to make – it was originally gonna be James Cameron's next movie after Titanic – and there's some debate about whether it broke even or lost money. Then again, when Hollywood does get anime adaptations off the ground, most people end up wishing they hadn't.Ģ0th Century Fox, Netflix, Paramount Pictures What happens when movies put more effort into replicating hairdos than on the script.
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But this is also part of a larger trend of Hollywood studios buying up anime properties they don't fully understand and spending decades smashing their heads against the wall trying to make sense of them.
Part of the problem is that Robotech is a pretty unique franchise in that it was created by slapping three different anime shows together and having American writers create a new plot that, by some miracle, made sense, so it's probably not the easiest storyline to adapt. Over the years, at least four directors (including Aquaman's James Wan) and five writing teams (including Herbie: Fully Loaded's Alfred Gough and Miles Millar) have been attached to the project - more people have worked on this thing than on some actually finished trilogies. Let's put it this way: at one point, this was supposed to be Tobey Maguire and Sony's next big franchise after the original Spider-Man trilogy. If the words " Robotech adaptation gets a director" give you a sense of nostalgia, that's because the movie has been in the works for about 15 years.