BUT WHAT WORD WILL DIANE WARREN RHYME WITH "ISCANDAR"? Raise your hand and fire up the wave motion gun if you're even mildly interested in having Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote
The Usual Suspects,
scripting an English language live-action Star Blazers movie.
(Quick moment while I make sure we're talking the bowlderized version of Space Battleship Yamato)
ReplyDeleteNope, no particular interest.
I have such mixed feelings about this. I'd really like to see the Japanese live-action movie that came out a few months ago before I decide whether I'm pro or con.
ReplyDeleteAnd really, how are they going to do the story? Will it be the Yamato, or an American ship? (Space Battleship Enterprise has a nice ring to it) It doesn't make sense thematically to Americanize the movie, but it doesn't make sense financially for an American studio to make such a Japanese story.
And the first person to suggest Ryan Reynolds as Derek Wildstar gets sold to the Comet Empire.
What would the American equivalent ship be -- the USS Arizona? Except we ended up winning that war. So then it's just ... a boat with no history.
ReplyDeleteThe USS Lexington (Battle of Coral Sea) and USS Yorktown (Battle of Midway) are -- I believe -- the two biggest US ships ever lost in combat at sea. Certainly they were, at the time, about the most strategically important ships we could have possibly lost -- so those would be a better analogy to the Yamato, I think.
ReplyDeleteRecall that in Space Battleship Yamato it's supposed to be the wreck of the Yamato raised and refurbished as a spaceship, not just a namesake that is stylized like the Yamato, so maybe hauling up the USS Yorktown (which was in good shape as these things go when Ballard visited the wreck).
How about the USS Cole? Probably too sensitive/recent to consider.
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