There are too many good stories to watch the same one again with a different look. Even if they do it well, I’d rather watch something else for the first time.
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Funnily enough, people complained when Netflix's great Death Note changed so much the plot... Your point is right, people want to resee the same story in a different look, but I think it should be retold differently. However I don't see much a point in redoing ATLA when the source is so good, hardily they would give a good new vision about the show & its story
After the fallout with the original creators, I have no interest in the live-action version. I’m holding out for their movies.
I think there are many reasons Netflix might mess it up, but this one doesn’t worry me at all. At the time they announced it, I thought “ouch, either the show is shaping up bad, or it isn’t but they got something else more important going on”.
And then like a month later they announced the creation of Avatar Studios, with Nickelodeon funding them to lead whatever projects they want, so I thought “there you go!”. Even if the Netflix show looked to be amazing, they would have been very silly to pass that up.
Do you remember how superhero movies were goofy back then? They didn't get what is the needed to make it look serious, and Superman from the 80's and Tim Burton's Batman got it: theatre acting and filming.
For animes, we still didn't get the tone. Comic books are diverse, but often have vibrant colours, which movies nowdays can easily reproduce, or they have realistic portraits, or frenetic arreagements/colours alà Jack Kirby, the last one which is harder to reproduce (maybe that Thor movie did it? Idk, trailer seemed visually chaotic.)
However, see One Piece: it's very cartoony, colours are kinda blant yet have nice shadows when needed, low details with sketchs. How do you visually adapt that to a live action? I think in ~~thar~~ that case it was needed Amélie Poulain's colour schemes, with actors made-up more or less like they didn't make-up, yet to have young, nice-looking visual instead of dark (as it's usual when dealing with 'dirt visual' live actions)
How about Avatar? I think it's in a similar look as One Piece, however I don't think my recommendations match with avatar. Avatar can get a bit more of realism, but I think one key element should be clear, bright colours, which is against nowdays' TV Shows and movies which tend to be dark.
Is Jack Chan still alive? We need people like him to teach nice stunts, or at least posing. Also, CG should only be there for water-bending and earth-bending. Air-bending should be 3D render of 2D drawings, it would look nicer and look like something touchable. And of course for the animals, but with bright colours, unlike Lion King-like.
Edit: if they do as the One Piece adaptation, we are doomed
Edit: just saw the list. Good news: it's bright. Bad news: seems 'flat' and plastic-like, but they use to change these kind of stuff for better. Do you rememeber Sonic? Btw, is that Zuko?
Dude's huge