Sorry, again... was away.Sergio wrote:I must disagree here.denzacar wrote:99% of characters are cyborgs.
Let's see: Daisuke, Hugo, Shumira, Kaos, Nova e Koyomi.
I am quoting by memory, so I'm probably forgetting someone.
Zapan, Gonzu and Alita herself are cyborgs, but they have specific faces.
In short, the problem remains.
Hugo is a cyborg. And a minor character.
He may be Alita's first love but he gets knocked out before she even starts character development.
As for Shumira... I sincerely doubt she will make in to any version that has to adhere to standard movie length conventions. In a mini-series - yes. In a 2-hour movie - no.
Just as Gan-Buri-Gan or even Tom Bombadil never made it into LotR.
Same goes for Koyomi. Pretty good chances to not make it to the final version. At least intact. She and Shumira might meld into one character.
Thing is... besides Alita there is really no other series-spanning character.
Ido is there up into the middle of the story - then he drops out of sight.
Jashugan appears in 1-2 episodes.
Kaos is there at the second half of the saga.
Figure is (and isn't) also there only in the second half of the saga.
Even Nova doesn't appear until the middle of the story - and then disappears until the finale.
What it all boils down to - Alita movie(s) will probably have to be more like Star Wars prequels than say LotR or the original Star Wars trilogy - at least character-vise.
Not a central party of characters that grows over the course of the story, but a story centered around a main character with (important) characters coming onto stage in every episode, doing their song and dance, and walking off the stage to make room for more characters.
Particularly good parallel are the SW prequels villains.
Darth Maul is badass - until he gets erased by Obi-Wan.
So are Dooku and Jango Fett - until they are erased.
Grievous is the final Boss Villain (before Palpatine is revealed) who again gets erased to make room for story conventions of Vader being the villain in the original trilogy.
While villains ARE there so the hero(es) could have something to shoot at and are easily replaced - good guys are rarely so easily disposed off. Again - story conventions.
We want the good guys to win. They can't win if they are dead.
So... while the good guys tend not to die, their relatives, mentors and friends often do. Its good for hero's character development.
Just ask Qui-Gon, Shmi Skywalker or even Obi-Wan and Yoda.
Lacaud wrote:I vote denzacar direct the movie Wink
Thanks for the vote of confidence but besides the fact that I lack the experience (of any kind) in movie making - I doubt that I would be a good choice to lead this particular project as long as it involved living actors.vilma21 wrote:yeah i agree denzacar is a master mind lol
I am way too big fan of the original to be able to chop it up an reassemble it into a version for general public and therefor commercially viable.
An animated version - maybe.
After about at least 10 years of experience in other work, right team and enough resources and time - maybe.
It could probably even be watchable in the end.