Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Gigantor!!!!

crush them now, Gigantor
A live action Gigantor movie is coming. One of my favorite cartoons as a kid.
Giagantor is based on the manga, Tetsujin 28go (Iron Man #28) and the black and white anime was broadcast on U.S. television from the 1960's to the early seventies. The cartoonist was Yokoyama Mitsuteru who apparently created an impressive body of work.
I'm not familiar with most of it. I have one Tesujin manga in Japanese, and like I said, loved the anime as a kid. There is a great tribute to his work in the nineties anime, Giant Robo which centers on that creation, and also includes characters and concepts from Yokoyama's various other manga like Tetsujin and an adaptation of Romance Of The Seven Kingdoms (or some other Chinese epic). This anime, which is headed to DVD in region 1 is highly recomended, especially to those who fondly remember such old school anime such as Gigantor, Battle Of The Planets, Speed Racer, and Cyborg 009 (the late seventies run, not the new one that recently aired on Cartoon Network).
http://www.tetsujin28.jp/ has the teaser for Gigantor, which is now slated for a mid-2005 release. I found the news at http://www.kfccinema.com/ by the way.

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# posted by Edshugeo The GodMoor : 11:16 PM
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Go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer goooooo! I loved that cartoon as a kid. Gigantor sounds familiar, but possibly because you've mentioned it to me before. I never saw the other two.
Can't think anymore, my brain is too tired.

Love you,
Jana (o:
# posted by Blogger SapphireBlue : 11:51 PM
 
Being a Johnny Depp fan, you would've loved to have heard that he was slated to play Speed Racer in a big screen adaptation, but it was not to be. I thought Richard Greico (his co-star from 21 Jump Street) would've made a better Speed, but that was more than ten years ago, I think. They're both too old now, and Greico is a has-been. Either one would do well as long lost older brother Rex Racer whom no-one could figure out was actually the mysterious, masked Racer X.
Gigantor is the blue robot on my home page.
# posted by Blogger Edshugeo The GodMoor : 7:55 PM
 
Johnny Depp could still pull it off! I can't even begin to think of anyone else who could play the part...someone young enough, that is. Maybe the guy who plays Spiderman...wtf is his name?

Jana...who is suddenly braindead...heh
# posted by Blogger SapphireBlue : 1:24 AM
 
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