It all comes down to money.
If they're afraid a property might fail (And since it'd be an adaptation of a work from another country, they certainly will), they'll do their best to try and make it succeed. They'll change what they think an American audience will like more ("Let's make Goku a high schooler instead of a wild child in the middle of the desert!"), they'll add, remove, or alter characters to make it more homogeneous to other popular films in the same genre, and they won't give it the budget it needs to depict what the anime, manga, or game does on a regular basis.
Suits will be redesigned (Or excluded altogether), the setting will become more American out of desperation, and ultimately, all they do is hope for a major flop to get a tax write off.

I'm still peeved that Adam Sandler's Grown Ups 2 beat out Pacific Rim in the United States the first week it came out.

Japan tends to do the same thing on it's own.

I honestly can't comment as I don't watch Japanese adaptations of other works.
Not to say I don't watch Japanese films, but I just...Never really cared about the live action movies they do of anime :lol

But what's specifically Japanese about Gundam? That's what I don't understand. There'd be very little complaints about casting because the characters, both racially and nationally, match more of an American demographic. And the setting, they go all around the world, which other American films have done, and that doesn't alienate audiences. The military outfits are kind of tacky as they were designed in the 70's, but I am sure a modern update won't make them look too bad.

They can still easily cut out characters, dumb down the story, or horribly redesign the suits. But with Bandai breathing down any movie studio's necks, I'm sure the mobile suit designs will be as close as possible while still having that "Hollywood" look.

Because and I'll be blunt here Westerners don't give a shit about Gundam or most Japanese anime.

the only people who will are the fans and they'll hate the movie the instant they even hint at changing something.

And when Hollywood's homogenized it to the point where it'll even have a shot at catching the casual audience it'll be rightly seen as a generic cash in attempt on the Transformers craze.

It's a no-win situation


And haha at implying Bandai would care Hasbro sure as hell didn't.

I'd rather there not be one, but if they did, I'd like it to be on the Battle of Odessa. Such a huge event that seems to be barely ever utilized.

So this campaign thing is happening so I guess go buy gunpla if you want free gunpla

Build Fighter Blu-RAy up for pre-orders on rightstuf.

http://www.rightstufanime.com/Gundam..._medium=Banner

Volume 2 of Gundam X arrived today.


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