Wouldn't you know it I actually just completed my degree in Live-Action Remakes at uni so I feel uniquely and specifically qualified to talk about the subject at length!
Half of them are just people saying "money" or the equivalent, an answer I, a journalist covering business topics at a games and entertainment website, never could've possibly understood without their help
There are millions of people like my dad who'll immediately turn off anything animated because it's "for kids". If it's live action, they won't suddenly line up in theaters, but they might NOT scroll past it on Netflix this time.
Because now we have the opportunity to remake a film, that could only be animated in the past, using real people and shit load of CGI - aka animation.... oh
I think that older animated movies are known for their nostalgia and high box office sales, and movie studios nowadays that make remakes and sequels of them try to take advantage of that for some easy buckaroos.
I have been thinking about this since I saw that trailer drop. Literal 1-to-1 in the main scene shown. There is no point other than "it isn't animated" I guess... Shit sucks!
There was a moment in Avengers: Infinity War where Spider-man, Dr. Strange and IronMan were on screen. I choked up a little. It wasn’t the movie. It was seeing all 3 characters in live action together. As a kid who had only grown up with the comics and cartoons sat in awe that “they made it real.”
I think that’s why some movie goers want them. That feeling of seeing something fully realized. Obviously there’s been very mixed results and not everything needs to make the jump. Studios will continue to make them as long as they make money regardless.
Right? I don't really have anything against cross-medium remakes but... it just looks the same but less interesting? If they're going to do this I wish they'd make some interesting stylistic choices or something.
Quite happy to have a live action Muppets version of literally anything though, in particular Beauty & The Beast where every character is a Muppet except Beast… who is played by Timothée Chalamet.
Because corporate CEOs only care about IP and what the Algorithms tell them to churn out. Thus, we get so many soulless remakes of great animated films! *sighs*
Because studios are risk averse and don’t want to gamble on new ideas and new IPs when people are willing to watch a million variations on a theme I guess
GENUINELY i do not care enough about these movies to see them in live action, sometimes they were better animated in the first place! production companies just don’t want to come up with no original live action movies for kids.
The real reason is the difficult of getting new ideas through the machine these days - much easier to pitch a remake of a known property, and shifting it into a related medium is the easiest way to do it. sure sucks though!
Pretty sure that only apply to TLK and Mufasa where there is no real actors on screen and everything were “animated” by VFX team but in realistic art style. I doubt this movie is cheaper than normal animated movie (not every animated is $150-200m like Pixar and Disney), they usually less than that.
They consistently make more money than they cost (look up the box office!) and if anything ever "consistently makes money" Hollywood will do it forever
I used to think it was Disney attempting to scare people away from characters that were about to enter public domain, but that's been proven false. The HtTYD one is particularly upsetting to me because they didn't even change the design of Toothless!
I just wish it was more of a reimagining instead of a shot for shot…remaster, for lack of a better word. You’re removing the fantastical overlay that is “animation” so find an interesting way to retell the story but grounded in the “real world” the movie has been transferred to.
Genuinely at this point I'm refusing to engage in any discussions of live action remakes. I don't care if this one "looks really good actually", all those movies are superfluous and just reinforce the idea that live action is the more serious medium than animation WHICH IS BULL
Apparently tons of people watch them. I don't know who these people are, though. I'd think morbid curiosity initially, but I can't imagine why they keep going back.
preach, i really think how to train your dragon live action will be absolutely awful just because like it is so unnecessary to be made into real life. they are dragons and viking’s !!
ps. this has NOTHING to do with who is being cast <3
Animation allows creators to do so much more that they couldn't in live action. By making an animation live action it constraints things so much. It just doesn't work.
They are all so ugly, bland, and soulless. Like someone else said, the CGI is likely done on the cheap, and it really shows. Just no character whatsoever. Kinda bums ya out.
Studios are avoiding risk. They think it's easier to bank on the popularity of an existing franchise than to invest in an original IP. It's sad, really.
Great, but that invalidate the original point. Just because fully animated movies are being made doesn't mean that unnecessary cash-grab live action adaptations aren't happening as well. Two things can exist at once.
Those cash grabs are only making cash because people outside the social media bubble go to see them. If they had been consistently flopping they woulda stopped making them long ago. Fact is people are going to see them regardless cos they still love those characters in whatever form they are made.
Well, obviously.
Not going to argue about this, just going to say that I've never sat through a single one of these live action remakes and don't intend to start now.
I saw someone suggest instead of remaking good movies shot for shot we should instead remake absolute dumpster fire films into good ones. That would be way better and less creatively bankrupt
I saw a post the other day saying that since they are all classed as live action, even the ones with all CG characters like the Lion King, they can avoid unionised animators
Well, remakes are not bad. How many of the Gen Z generation give a damn about Citizen Kane. They are not going to sit through that. A remake of done right brings them to the story in a fresh light. Besides all that more than 300 movies release every year. Not even one percent of them are remakes.
As I said to someone else, I need ppl to start taking live action movies and making them into animated ones.
Gimmie a Bond movie but in the style of Akira. Imagine LOTR but as a Ghibli movie? Take something super action-y and give any of the epic anime makers. Let's switch up the formula lol
Bc, & I say this with great sadness, Disney is no longer the great innovator that they once were. They now buy up others like Pixar & Marvel or make endless new versions of their great classics
I feel like unless it's a telling from a different point of view (ie. hook, Dumbo, etc) then there is no other reason for it to be live action than money
Not necessarily cheaper, just that the returns are more guaranteed on an established media product than the risk of people won’t like something new. The financial risk spending hundreds of millions marketing something that could be undone by one critic saying “lol this sucks” on day 1 is untenable
I'm over remakes in general for everything, but especially the animated to live action. The animated movies work so well that live action just makes it look creepy
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Though, yes, Disney SHOULD get blamed for this. Despite that, they have no role here.
yup bsky has reached mass appeal now
(I'd watch that)
the Lion King live action remake made 1.6 billion while the original Lion king made 980 mill.
this is the answer
That's what you asked for right?
Oh, or Encino Man, but dragons! What if Hiccup has to spend half the movie trying to hide an increasingly large dragon from his suburban neighborhood.
ps. this has NOTHING to do with who is being cast <3
Soul, Elemental, Strange World, Wish, Turning Red, The Bad Guys, Encanto, Raya and the last dragon, Wish, Luca, Onward, Wild Robot.... among others
All released over the last three years.
Not going to argue about this, just going to say that I've never sat through a single one of these live action remakes and don't intend to start now.
Whenever people complain about how "fake" live action looks, bet it would've looked amazing animated!
Soul, Elemental, Strange World, Wish, Turning Red, The Bad Guys, Encanto, Raya and the last dragon, Wish, Luca, Onward, Wild Robot.... among others
Gimmie a Bond movie but in the style of Akira. Imagine LOTR but as a Ghibli movie? Take something super action-y and give any of the epic anime makers. Let's switch up the formula lol
I LOVE animation. It's an art form. Why change the medium when it rarely adds anything??