Topic: Remaking a 36 year old classic... new Yamato/Star Blazers
Yes, finally, they've gone and made a live action version of the first real "modern" sci-fi anime Space Battleship Yamato, known here as Star Blazers. Given how just about everything else over there has been remade to death, Yamato has surprisingly stayed dead. It originally lasted 3 tv series and a half dozen movies before running out of steam (and audience) in 1983. In the mid 90's they tried to bring it back with a direct to video sequel Yamato 2520, but between it sucking and disputes over who owned the rights it only lasted 4 episodes.
Another attempt involved Disney in the late 90's, as they bought the rights to do a live action Star Blazers film. The producers has the bright idea to use an American ship, which would have been fine, but they wanted to use... the Arizona. Oh, that would have been so wrong... luckily, it never got out of pre-production. (personally I like the idea of turning classic US ships into space ships, as a fleet involving the Monitor, Old Ironsides, Battleship Missouri and maybe the carrier Yorktown would just be fun)
Which brings us to this. The first trailer, if I linked to the right one, is very Michael Bay right down to the Aerosmith song. The second is set to the original music from the show. We'll see where the actual film ends up on that spectrum...
http://www.asstr.org/~Invid_Fan/
