Do you think there should be a feature length Live Action film adaptation of the very popular Manga and Anime series FullMetal Alchemist? Under the condition that the story stays faithful to the origial storyline (Brotherhood) I think it would be a great Idea. It's almost MADE for English Film, the plot, characters, and the abilities aren't too supernatural. The characters names are also English.

Tell me what you think. Who the actors should be, and who should be the director if you want.

PLEASE REPLY!

Umm...no? Even though ok, if I really think about it in the most ideal way possible, with someone at the helm with enough vision to know what would translate well to live-action and what to tweak, it's not exactly an impossible idea. Except for the fact that a series is not really fit to be adapted into movie format.

But even if it could that doesn't mean that it should happen or that it's ever going to. And that may be for the best.

Hell NO!! Remember how the Dragon Ball Z live action movie turned out?? This would just ruin FMA's reputation!

That's cause those bastards made it UNFAITHFUL to the actual story!

Take The Hunger Games. I know it's not a manga, but this is a good example. Everybody on it's production was a fan of the book that swore not to make it a watered down version of a good story. Also I've worked with fourteen directors during my career, this gave me good experience to direct it myself if I don't find a guy willing to keep it original. I've went through every viewpoint for this! I've been working on this for two years! The only way to make it work is to base the first film COMPLETELY on the frist 11 episodes, disregarding episode 1 cause it was a filler. It would have to be a trilogy of PROBABLY six/seven movies in order to get it perfect, all according to the original manga series. I have dozens of connections to Warner Bros and Paramount! Think about it as LONG AND AS HARD AS YOU CAN. Honestly, Christopher Noland (Dark Knight), or Tim Burton or Brad Bird would be best for the film.

Hey! How come no one's replying??!!??!!

>>6
1-People will only comment on what interests them
2-People are less likely to comment on something when OP advertises the thread on a bunch of other boards
3-Bumping your own thread numerous times within a few hours and complaining no one's commenting on it is pointless and makes you look like an impatient dick. It's not like people are on here 24/7, and either way, Point #1 still applies.

I don't care, I'm bored as hell!

"impatient dick"
"I don't care, I'm bored as hell!"

Thanks for proving me right. I can tell you right now pretty much no one cares about your boredom to the point of letting you spam a bunch of your threads as advertisements and complaining. If you're bored, go eat something. Go outside. Go watch some TV. Read a book. Boredom doesn't condone bitching.

I don't think you know the meaning of I DON'T CARE. Well let me put it to you this way. I: as in ME, Don't: as in DO NOT, Care: as in GIVE A FUCK. So let's use the example I got here. I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT WHAT YOU JUST SAID!!! Now if you're done trolling around and being a dickhead, I gotta see what ACTUAL BLOGGERS think about my threads.

Jeez, man. I don't need to listen to what some lightweight cupcake ass bastard has to say about my thread. And PS, if you don't care, why'd you come back to see if I proved you right? Do you really care about what I have to say THAT much. Do you have a life?! Carrot Cake Cherry Topped fuck.

Don't spam multiple pages. And i for one think a live action movie for fma would be a terrible idea. An anime should stay an anime. Plus they would not be able to fit the whole 64 episode brotherhood series into a 2 hour movie. It would be terrible. Coming from a person who lives fma

>>12 Read my 5th Comment. I said, it would only work if the first 11 episodes were put into the first film. Each film should use ten episodes as a base. Read before you comment.

It would be at the very least a six movie trilogy!

>>10 >>11
Get over yourself.
Learn what "trolling" means.
I "came back" so to speak because I'm here on my iPod in a hotel room just checking in on the site before I chill for the evening and you happened to be the page I took a break on. It auto-refreshes. I'm not sure if you realize it, but I'm trying to give you advice. A bit harsh, yes, but advice. I care about this site's reputation and organization, and since I can see you clearly don't, my business is done here. I have no further reason to argue with you after this, but take a hint sometime. You don't rule the world, and I'm not out to get you, so don't get try acting all cool and defensive of someone's opinion. Sheesh.

And watch him come back and see this.

>>13 regardless, it would still be terrible. And this is not mainly english adapted regardless of the characters' names. There are tons of anime out there that use english names instead of japanese names. And not all names are english. For example: May Rin, Shou May, Ling Yao, Lan Fan, Foo etc... Of course these are developed from chinese names being as they are all from xing. Still proves
My point though. And to name a few other animes that use english names: black butler, tegami bachi, soul eater, baccano, eden of the east, D. Gray man.. Etc. and if you dont believe me then watch all of them and i gurantee that you will hear english names. So even if they do make a live action movie. It will be filmed in japan and will most likely not get an english dub. It will probably also fail just like how they tried to make the last air bender a movie. Thats all i have to say.

I know that! If this is what's gonna happen every time i put up a thread, then what is the point of an idea?

Eh, america would just fuck it up. Just like that whole dragon ball fiasco...

>>16
>>17 calm your asses.

Anyway I agree with >>19 that they would.

>>8

Given it's only a few topics down, on the front page, I'll post my opinion, now.

You got to realize something, no matter how much you'd rather not listen.
We have rules. Thus, you don't have any right to spam the site with irrelevant shit on boards that it isn't for. This isn't your own personal site, to say, do, post whatever you want, then cock some type of attitude when people who CARE about the site tells you off.
We have rules. Follow them or hopefully get the fuck banned, and not bother us again.

Again. THIS IS NOT YOUR OWN PERSONAL SITE. Get over it and deal with it.

As much as this Century guy's annoying me... I for one think that a live-action adaption of anything is a bad idea, this of course, an opinion gained by watching various live-action adaptions.

Just think about it for a moment! Al in a realistic armor. The wiggly arms of the Truth. Envy's true form. I just can't help but think all these things will just turn into a giant ball of Narm if adapted!

>>5 Check out thet reply. I'm telling you about every viewpoint. Besides, Thery're making live action movies about "Ruroni Kenshin and "Bleach" They're both being put out internationally.

I think Vic Mignogna(hope I spelled that right) should direct, and as for the actors....hire really good cosplayers!!! People would love that!

>>24 THANK YOU!!! FINALLY SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING BAD TO SAY!!

I would hire real active duty soldiers for these films. (Act of Valor gave me the idea) They would be the only ones able to understand the horrers of war.

>>25
You act as if we should be nice to you, even if you're stupid and not following obvious rules. Why should we give you respect when you've not earned it?

>>27 What rules? I'm new here. This is my SECOND DAY ON THIS. I was just happy.

>>28 Have you ever heard of 'lurking'?
Seriously, how about you TRY to learn the rules and get to know the place instead of being a fucking retard and making everyone hate you?

>>28 Sheesh, I've only been here for one day and I can follow the rules better than you.

Jeepbus Crepes, I go away for a week and look what happens.
Faggots. Faggots everywhere.
Kids like you are the reason I hate summer.
You ruin the internet.
Well...not really...nobody can really ruin the internet.

Still.
OP, I fucking hate you.
OP, you are a massive faggot.
OP, I hope you get hit by a car or a very bad man kills your whole family.

This thread could have been great but it's clear that the op is just wants people to just be all "woah" and "awesome" when everyone knows that this would suck. Also i love fma:brotherhood.

Well I think it's a good idea. Dragonball sucked ass because they didn't follow the original story.
31>> That's a terrible thing to say to a guy who is an idiot, though. You don't know him in real life. What would he have done to deserve all that?

I'll see you damn sons of bitches in hell!

>>34

If you had learned how things are done here on this site, people may have been more lenient towards 'some' of your fuck-ups.

But instead, you just continue on thinking that you've done no wrong.

>>34 good job being one of those hated newbies.

and this isnt a good idea(like I agreed with >>19), the anime was finished and I think we don't really need to see it live and stuff.

>>36
Though they can continue on with another Manga Adaptation of the original (by original, I mean the manga), I wouldn't mind, trying to carry on where they left off in the end of the Manga.

I just wanna say, no one ever called this idiot out on using the word "trilogy" and then saying it should be six or seven movies. I doubt you have any movie connections if you thing a trilogy is anything other than 3 movies.

I just now noticed the Tri in the word Trilogt. I now know that it would be a saga, not a trilogy

>>39 OH you think?! You're such a dumbass!!

Who's a dumbass?! You're a dumbass, dumbass!!

Yoe're the dumbass, fucking retard! I bet you didn't even know what the fuck you were talking about just then!

I knew more than you do! You're just upset that I know more than you fucking do!

>>42 Leave him alone, this is actually a very good question.!

>>44 Thank you!

>>45 So now you're thanking him for being a retard just lkike you.

>>46 I think that it would be a great movie!

No one cares what you think, shut the hell up!

I care what they think.

No one cares what you think either, you can kll yourself and go to Hell. No one will miss you. Just do the world a big favor and do that!!

>>50 Why do you feel the need to say awful stuff like that? What if he aqctually kills himself? You colud go to jail.

FUCK JAIL!

BAD IDEA overall bro...unless you want it to be just like the rest of anime-into-movie types,it wont be any diff without a SERIOUS group of producers behind it who'd be in it for the LOVE AN NOT MONEY!

that's what i've been trying to say

>>52 and by the way, you won't be saying that when you're actually in jail getting RAMMED.

Stop fucking samefagging to make yourself seem cool and deep.

Look at everyone's name. There is a thing that looks like this:
ID:zCbXmSx beside your name and the one's ARGUING with you or 'sticking up' for you.

Stop samefagging dipshit.

Uh oh...

Well it did cure my boredom.

Oh, well.

I have Multiple Personality disorder...?

>>60
If you did, you'd not have a question mark at the end of it. If you did, you'd know.

Should we contact Reltair? This kid is a nuisance and should just be banned.

My plan worked. Just wanted to make extra long thread by a good question

>>62
Do it.
Idiot+attention whore+samefagging=banhammer
I can't get onto my email for the next few days, but yeah, this fucker needs to be banned.

>>63 that wasnt a good question

OH. HELL. NO. you can't pull off FMA with Live Action. the alchemy is complex plus there's a lot of things that you have to consider.

it was fun

It's a risk, but if it can be done right, I suppose I'll support it. I don't know if I can live with the changing of Edward's voice though.

I just don't think that it'll work. They would have to cut something major in order to fit it into a movie time slot, and the special effects would have to be ridiculously good.

I would be completely for it if it was done by someone awesome, for example, Peter Jackson (the director of the Lord of the Rings series), but otherwise, I think it would be better to stick with the anime ^^.

i think it would only be good animated.There are just some things that wouldnt hold up in real life.Like The charecters voices, for example.Not to mention alchemy,Prides arms,and a bunch of other things.and like Anonymous said, therewould be alot missing.And I love FMA:B and the manga, so i would hat to see it ruined.

Whe you take every view point into consideration. you'll see why I asked about it in the first place. Christopher Noland. He's the only guy who can make a guy falling in a bathtub look cool. He could pull this off.

>>68 But if they do it, M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN CANNOT DIRECT IT!

>>72, I know that, If I thought HE would direct this, I'd kill myself right now!

Christopher Noland, The guy who took the mindless crime fighting of Batman and turned it into what it is today, or Joss Whedon, the guy who wrote the screenplay for The Avengers. I would definitely need those two to be on the crew.

>>74
If the guy who did the new Batman shit, joined, I'd hunt him down and beat him senseless with a hot ass brick that had cow shit on it. Those series sucked balls to me.

Did someone say Batman thread?

The new BATMAN DARK KNIGHT movie guy! CHRISTOPHER NOLAND, DUMBASSES!NOT the retard from the 1960s. The TV show from the 1960s was a comedy series that wasn't even good! I'm talking about the NEW batman which is all cool and deep as hell. He's one of the only guys that can pull this shit off without any flaws! INCEPTION, ANYONE??!! If you saw that, then you know what Christopher Noland is capable of.

Also, The Avengers by Joss Whedon! He wrote that shit! He would be a serious asset to the movie. And by the way, anyone who would even joka about the Dark Knight Trilogy is FRIKKIN RETARDED.

For The wiggly arms of truth, and Pride, that would be a READ problem. I say, try Cel shading. Al's armor, Bigger problem. Stop motioning a REAL suit of armor would work but would take too long. But it's the best idea we have so far. Envy's true form, and Sloth, I'd use the same animation that was used for the HULK. Alchemy, just make it the same way they did in the anime. But the Alchemical energy in the form of electrical discharge, simple, but not simple at the same time. ANIMATE LIGHTNING. But here's where it gets harder: we can't have it going in random very abrupt fast directions. We need it to have a circulating like motion through the object getting transmuted, and the object it's getting transmuted from, while at the same time, moving erratically. Also, Hiromu Arakawa had a color scheme for the Alchemy lightning that the didn't (Sort of) use for the show. She wanted the normal lightning to be yellow (In the show, it was blue), she wanted Alchemy Lightning Phisopher's stone to be red (it was.) She wanted Mustang's Alchemy to be orange, Scar's destruction alchemy to be black, Scar's reconstruction alchemy to be silvery/white, and Alkahestry lightning to be a bright purple.
Take The Hunger Games. I know it's not a manga, but this is a good example. Everybody on it's production was a fan of the book that swore not to make it a watered down version of a good story. Also I've worked with fourteen directors during my career, this gave me good experience to direct it myself if I don't find a guy willing to keep it original. I've went through every viewpoint for this! I've been working on this for two years! The only way to make it work is to base the first film COMPLETELY on the frist 11 episodes, disregarding episode 1 cause it was a filler. It would have to be a trilogy of PROBABLY six/seven movies in order to get it perfect, all according to the original manga series. I have dozens of connections to Warner Bros and Paramount! Think about it as LONG AND AS HARD AS YOU CAN. Honestly, Christopher Noland (Dark Knight), or Tim Burton or Brad Bird would be best for the film.
I promise to NOT LET M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN ANYWHERE NEAR THE STUDIOS, Whe you take every view point into consideration. you'll see why I asked about it in the first place. Christopher Noland. He's the only guy who can make a guy falling in a bathtub look cool. He could pull this off The new BATMAN DARK KNIGHT movie guy! CHRISTOPHER NOLAND, DUMBASSES!NOT the retard from the 1960s. The TV show from the 1960s was a comedy series that wasn't even good! I'm talking about the NEW batman which is all cool and deep as hell. He's one of the only guys that can pull this shit off without any flaws! INCEPTION, ANYONE??!! If you saw that, then you know what Christopher Noland is capable of.Christopher Noland, The guy who took the mindless crime fighting of Batman and turned it into what it is today, or Joss Whedon, the guy who wrote the screenplay for The Avengers. I would definitely need those two to be on the crew.



NOY I WANT YOU TO TELL ME THAT I DIDN'T TAKE EVERY VIEWPOINT INTO CONSIDERATION (and mean it.)

sorry about the typos but seriously, If you read the entire comment, then YOU CANNOT SAY THAT I DIDN'T TAKE EVERY VIEWPOINT INTO CONSIDERATION.

Im serious

>>22 This.

Century. I'd like to inform you that half the people who start to try to read your posts notice the caps and immediately give up, assuming that everything you're saying is annoying and immature. Stop being so goddamn capshappy and write properly. I would also like to inform you that I think you're bullshitting half of the things you've said about yourself in this. If you've worked with so many great companies, you should know how important it is to write maturely when presenting a serious idea, and you should also be aware of forum etiquette, neither of which you're showing here.

>>82 Well it's my way of emphasizing something that can't be heard if I say it out loud.

For The wiggly arms of truth, and Pride, that would be a real problem. I say, try Cel shading. Al's armor, Bigger problem. Stop motioning a real suit of armor would work but would take too long. But it's the best idea we have so far. Envy's true form, and Sloth, I'd use the same animation that was used for the Hulk. Alchemy, just make it the same way they did in the anime. But the Alchemical energy in the form of electrical discharge, simple, but not simple at the same time. Animate Lightning. But here's where it gets harder: we can't have it going in random very abrupt fast directions. We need it to have a circulating like motion through the object getting transmuted, and the object it's getting transmuted from, while at the same time, moving erratically. Also, Hiromu Arakawa had a color scheme for the Alchemy lightning that the didn't (Sort of) use for the show. She wanted the normal lightning to be yellow (In the show, it was blue), she wanted Alchemy Lightning involving the Philosopher's stone to be red (it was.) She wanted Mustang's Alchemy to be orange, Scar's destruction Alchemy to be black, Scar's reconstruction Alchemy to be silvery/white, and Alkahestry lightning to be a bright purple.
Take The Hunger Games. I know it's not a manga, but this is a good example. Everybody on it's production was a fan of the book that swore not to make it a watered down version of a good story. Also I've worked with fourteen directors during my career, this gave me good experience to direct it myself if I don't find a guy willing to keep it original. I've went through every viewpoint for this! I've been working on this for two years! The only way to make it work is to base the first film completely on the frist 11 episodes, disregarding episode 1 cause it was a filler. It would have to be a saga of probably six/seven movies in order to get it perfect, all according to the original manga series. I have dozens of connections to Warner Bros and Paramount! Think about it as long and as hard as you can, Christopher Noland (Dark Knight/Inception), or Tim Burton or Brad Bird would be best for the film.
I PROMISE TO NOT LET M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN ANYWHERE NEAR THE STUDIOS, When you take every view point into consideration. you'll see why I asked about it in the first place. Christopher Noland. He's the only guy who can make a guy falling in a bathtub look cool. He could pull this off The new BATMAN DARK KNIGHT movie guy! Christopher Noland, dumbasses! Not the retard from the 1960s. The TV show from the 1960s was a comedy series that wasn't even good! I'm talking about the new batman which is all cool and deep as hell. He's one of the only guys that can pull this shit off without any flaws! INCEPTION, ANYONE?? If you saw that, then you know what Christopher Noland is capable of. Christopher Noland, The guy who took the mindless crime fighting of Batman and turned it into what it is today, or Joss Whedon, the guy who wrote the screenplay for The Avengers. I would definitely need those two to be on the crew.



NOw I WANT YOU TO TELL ME THAT I DIDN'T TAKE EVERY VIEWPOINT INTO CONSIDERATION (and mean it.)

I would only go to see fangirls drool over Edward.:3

So much delusion in this thread.

THANK YOU!!

1. Do you even know what delusion means
2. Why are you still alive.

..88, Delusion is some sof fantasy or a self deception that is believed to be reality.

Also, were you talking to me or to >>86?

>>89 Um, basically you.

Because you seem to think yourself a sort of visionary and this your pet project. But you can't even get Christopher Nolan's name right.

Okay, Century, let me ask you this. Are you even working in the film industry or are you just another annoying teenager?

Let's take another of your viewpoints in (Kinda hating that word now) What the hell would Christopher Nolan and Josh Whedon want with FMA? They're not huge fans as far as I know and as you've said, the producers of The Hunger Games were a fan of the book so they didn't water it down. Who's to say that both directors wouldn't water down the adaption?

Maybe you pay them high to get them in but now consider this. Money. Getting both directors in would eat like half the budget and don't get me started on the actors and special effects. No one in the right mind in Hollywood would fund an live-action adaption of an anime after so
many failures of the such. You say you've looked at it in every viewpoint but you didn't even consider the fundings of the movie? Hell, ALL SIX MOVIES!? Money doesn't fall from the sky!

You say you've been working on it for two years. But there hasn't been any news of a greenlight for such a movie. Naturally, the first step to a film adaption is to gain the licenses from the original creator and that will immediately become public knowledge. So why haven't I heard such news? Maybe it's because in these two years, you've been sitting on you ass doing nothing?

So tell me straight, are you really working on a movie or are you an idiot who says things he'll never do?

>>91 I NEVER said that it was greenlit. I said that I would WANT Christopher Noland and Joss Whedon on set! I NEVER said that they ould be. It was all a vision. I WORK AS A STAGEHAND for Warner Bros. and Paramount! But I did like being on set.
It was all a vision. I chose my words carefully top make sure that single minded fucks like you, but you're too busy explaining to me why it's a bad idea. Key word: IDEA. It is an idea. It will probably NEVER happen, but it's FUN TO THINK ABOUT. This is why I posted it.

And I'm shooting those ideas because they're highly impractical.

Besides, you just can't take no for an answer can you? A lot of us have answered that it's a bad idea. Shut up an accept it dammit.

"I've been working on it for two years."

Working on what? That's what I was asking up there. Do you consider sitting on your ass thinking as work?

I personally think that it would be a terrible adaption. Hollywood tends to ruin great shows. Example-dragon ball evolution. Hollywood fucked that up. They're going to fuck up death note too. There also wouldn't be much of a point in making a movie exactly the same as the show. If they kept all the ideas and characters and made different events happen in the same setting, it would be worth watching. But not many people would have the right vision for the epicness that is fma, so it might be good, but most likely it wouldn't be.

>>93 You have no right to say that I did nothing unless You were there. I work as a stagehand for Warner Brothers and Paramount. I started as an intern when I was seventeen years old! I LOVE Cenema! I have a nice house in rural Denver and a girlfriend that loves me! But if it'll make you happy, I'll not visit this site again, I'll quit being a stagehand, I'll stop reading manga, and I'll get a job in engineering or carpentry. Will that make you happy?! You wanna take my career?!

Please, Baby Jesus, no. No way! Frankly all the movies that were made into Live Action were a bunch of crap. Do not let this amazing manga and anime series go down in flames. I don't think any anime series should be made into a Live Action movie. Sorry just my opinion.

Ok in all honesty i didn't think this thread would last this long.
its not that i didn't enjoy the show i just don't think it would make a great movie.

>>95 I have a right to say you did nothing because nothing's happened. Planning two years for something and not attempting to get a greenlight is not work.

And no, I don't want your job. What made you think I did?

I had no idea that the thread would run THIS long.

The story of Fullmetal Alchemist is amazing and would make a good live action if someone did it right. Now i see a lot of people comparing this idea too the Dragon Ball Z movie or the Last Airbender, but think about it... those animes are very fantasy where as the plot, setting, and powers (alchemy, etc) are very realalistic. (FYI alchemy is actually a real thing)

Now i dont think ONE movie would do this story justice, ithink they should make a series of movies like harry potter or hunger games. The hunger games and harry potter are easy to make as a series because theyre books, but if you buy fma dvds theyre seperated into parts

>> You know, THAT is what I've been saying, but they never lishen because they have some sort of grudge against me. I'm not saying that everybody has to be nice to me, but check this out. Out of all 101 posts, only 9 people were not mean to me. I didn't say "Nice to me" I said "Weren't mean to me." That means that even less people (4 people) were nice to me !

>>101

See >>27.

>>27 See >>101 Because I know what your trying to say, and I agree with you, but seriously, I'm just hoping against hope that there would be more than nine people not being mean to me.

>>104
We're not being mean. We're being logical. We're not going to just be nice to anyone, because they think their ideas are good, or just because they want us to be nice to them. This is how the majority of the site works. You got to get used to it.

We're brutal when it comes to this site. Well I know that I try to be. Can't speak for others.

I think that a FMA movie could work if they broke it down into several movies and make a series, but I don't think many directors would be able to do it right. Of the majority of anime that I watch I believe FMA is one of the ones that would be best in Live action, it could be difficult to do, but if the people on staff like it and want it to succeed it will.

i like it as long as the actors look like the anime/manga charaters, cause i mean when you look at live action movies that are based on anime the characters look really diferant.
for example i watched dragon ball evolution (live action movie based on dragonball) and they got soooo many things wrong... i want to find the director, slap him on the face and shout at him every thing he ot wrong. (dont judge me)

>>107 Well, that's what I've been trying to say for like a month. No one listened to me!! By the way, it this becomes official, and I am involved... I promise to not let M. Knight Shyamalan anywhere near the production studios!

>>108
How exactly would you get involved? You famous? Do you have an assload of money? Do you KNOW people in the business? If it's no, then you're not going to be involved with it.

>>108
Also if by some odd, aw-inspiring magic you get involved, if you're just that, "involved" you'd not have say over who works on it.

I never said I would get involved. I'm only a stagehand. Also, the odds are that none of this will even happen, so it doesn't matter.

>>108 Also, does owning a three story house mean you have an assload of money, because I don't think it does. I work as a stagehand, and I don't work on every new movie. Just some of the ones that don't have sufficient staff. If I don't get called, I get no money. Though, they never wanted me to be the head stagehand. I would get more money if I did.

>>112 >>112 Owning a three story house generally requires you to have an assload of money.

At least, on the east cost.

>>114
There are pretty shitty, cheap 2 and 3 story houses where I live.

Can you think of any actors that would be good to play Ed, Al or even Winry.... if they do I would kinda feel bad for the one to play Al, cause they would have to play the part in a really big suit of armor would btw has to be really heavy. Just saying....... but, yeah having a feature length Live Action film would be a good idea, just the thought of being able to see alchemy live sounds awesome!!

Ehhh.. If they managed to make it stay very very true to the story and got good actors that looked like the characters, ect.

But people always have a way of messing things up when they get movie rights, so it's a risky thing..

WTH people first of all stop talking about houses and get back on subject. second of all >>117 and >>116, Century and i feel the same way, seen dragonball? then don't watch dragonball evolution (it will just make you mad). -Anime

>>118 Get back to WHAT subject? This entire topic is a mess of ramblings from some fanboy/girl.

>>117 Okay,so Im pretty sure that I'll get totally bloody axe murdered by dozens of people here for saying this,but if they could get the hair-do and the body right....Maybe Jennifer Lawrence could play Riza?

https://www.youtube.com/user/Shogunz806?feature=mhee

How is this still at the top? Seriously. I mean, yeah we all would love it if fma had a live action movie but just face the facts that even if they did make one, it would be terrible. And even if it was ok, it would never live up to alot of people's standards.

>>120 YAY!I wasnt axe murdered for my idea!

>>123 *murders CeltysCat gruesomely with an axe*
jk
>>122 I agree on some level but i still would love it.

>>124 AAUUUGGGGHHHHHHHH

Well, this thread was amusing yet disappointing to read at the same time.

The thing about FMA is, it'd have to either assume its viewers is 100% people who know the show (bad for $), massively compress a section of the plot (bad for :D), or find a gap in the canon that still makes sense to relative outsiders while entertaining the main base (good luck). Its plot is just too wound together- 30-ish hours of one constant plot don't translate well into a 1.5-hour movie. Something like Cowboy Bebop might work better due to the fact that it is very episodic, with only a few 2-parters, so it doesn't suffer as much from the time constrants and has a virtually infinite timespan to work with.

Plus, from what I've seen anime doesn't usually translate into live-action all that well. *cough* Airbender *cough*

That said, if there was a good storyline for it and a decent production crew who knew the spirit of FMA, it would be fun to see.

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