Hollywood studios, over the past few years, have taken steps to bring a number of Japanese manga/anime properties to the big screen – Death Note, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell among them. As of right now, though, only Ghost in the Shell appears to be moving forward; though, depending on your feelings about these properties being “Hollywood-ized” in general (often bringing up issues about “white-washing” and related problems with them), you might prefer if most of these projects never progress beyond early development.
Meanwhile, there are Japanese projects such as Attack on Titan for anime/manga fans to anticipate. Attack on Titan began as a manga in 2009 and has since given rise to light novels, anime, and video games based in a sci-fi world where humanity lives in cities surrounded by enormous walls and does battle with gigantic humanoid creatures (which are known as Titans). The Attack on Titan property is being adapted into a live-action feature by the source manga’s creator, Hajime Isayama, along with scribe Tomohiro Machiyama, for the movie’s director, Yūsuke Watanabe (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods).
A handful of character posters depicting the Attack on Titan live-action film’s cast have made their way online (hat tip Kotaku and Tokusatsu Network). You can check out Kotaku’s side by side comparisons, to get a better idea of how the movie’s flesh and blood players measure up alongside their hand-drawn and animated counterparts.
Pictured below, we have the Attack on Titan cast members, including Japanese actor Haruma Miura as Eren Yeager; U.S. born model/singer Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa Ackerman; Japanese model/singer Nanami Sakuraba as Sasha Blouse; Japanese actor Takahiro Miura as Jean Kirstein; another popular Japanese actor/model in Satomi Ishihara as Hange Zoë; and finally, Japanese actor/model Kanata Hongo as Armin Arlert.
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Attack on Titan releases in Japan in Summer 2015.
Source: Tokusatsu Network [via Kotaku]
Hope they don’t mess this movie up!!! Keep the characters as they are looking in the Anime. Film companies and the people involved in making these great Animes into movies need to get it right not like previous projects like dragon Ball Z & Avatar The last Airbender. Please do this move the justice it deserves, if you can, many more company’s will follow in the same direction. DO IT FOR THE FANS.
I agree, i know this might go un noticed but Armin’s hair color and Jeans hair style and last i checked there were no RPG’s in the attack on titan anime. I know it might sound like i’m just saying things just to say them but its the truth.
I have only one question: why does Sasha have a bow and
arrow? And Hange has a bazooka?
I mean, WHAT
Actually they do use bows in the original manga, along with many other modern weapons (remember the rifle scene?)
In all actuality most of the AOT characters are Caucasian, with the exception of Mikasa who is only half Asian (they explain that Asians are rare and worth more on the black market)
I think they are taking the right approach with this film keeping it “in house” otherwise it would end up like DBZ being poorly westernized years after it popularity peaked.
sasha is adept in using a bow and arrow as a weapon. this can be seen in the manga when she saves a child from a titan
its because Sasha in the manga and a special ova ALSO uses a bow and the hanji thing ITS f***** UP AND SHE IS CALLED HANS
Caucasian actors please! I understand the above comment, but come on. Mikasa is the only partial Asian character in the universe so far. Was so excited to here about the movie until now. Will not watch.
I don’t want to pick faults here but I feel like the blades on the manoeuvre gear are far too thin, not only are they much thicker in the anime but it also makes far more logical sense to have thick blades. Due to Titans thick skin/ muscle i think that these blades would just snap. Also can agree with other comments about Caucasian actors, I understand that it is a Japanese anime however by using Asian actors for the whole cast they may miss out on a vital piece of backstory with eren and mikasa.