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A live action movie like Transformers would be epic.


Why hasn't anybody thought about it yet?

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Live action Digimon or Pokemon, but mostly Digimon..has been a dream of mine for YEARS!

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A live action Digimon movie would be great, but I don't think I would want Michael Bay as director; James Cameron would be a better choice.

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well they could've done one a long time ago...

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LOL. James Cameron sucks.

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I was thinking that digimon would be a good tv series like Terra Nova

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OMG, I've always thought this would be epic...

-I've thought of redoing season 1 as a trilogy (D1: Devimon,, D2: Etemon, D3: Myotismon)
-I also envisioned a remake on an international level (a la S1+S3, 3 or 4 kids from different places on an X-Box Live type thing get sucked into the digital world after trying a demo version of a Digimon game) the roster expands with each sequel
-S3 could be remade too, given the real-world applications and the amazing 3 leads, I can honestly say in that season I had trouble picking a fav

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That would great if that happened! I can see the movie turning out like Avatar, in terms of visuals. 3D and CGI Digimons!

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Becuase Digimon is not as popular as Pokemon is in the states, making a project of the likes it tricky to do for studios and could result in a cataclysmic bomb.

However, if made I would like the combination of JJ Abrams and Guillermo Del Toro...

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It sounds nice but I would be afraid of a disaster such as Dragonball Evolution..

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Well, here's my take on this idea. Now, I'm not one of those guys that would say "Oh, you can't do Digimon in live-action, it won't work." However, as someone who was a Digimon fan growing up and just now starting to look back at it with an adult perception (I grew up in the 90's and 2000's, so I was a kid when Digimon came out and I watched the first two seasons religiously on Saturday mornings and reruns after school, it was one of my favorite things in the world, alongside Pokemon, Harry Potter, Transformers, and Marvel and DC Comcis.) I will say that there would be a lot going against it, and if it were made, it will be one of those things in which the fans will be generally divided as to whether or not it sucked. However, I have recently become a fan of Bob Chipman, also known as Moviebob on Escapist Magazine, and he has a philosophy, in which he believes that "you can make a good movie out of anything", which is a philosophy that I tend to agree with a little bit. (Even though he and I strongly disagree on Michael Bay's Transformers trilogy, I loved it, growing up watching reruns of the cartoon on videotape thanks to my older child of the 80's cousin.)

There would be a few things to get out of the way. The first thing is that I believe that CGI and 3D technology will have to GREATLY IMPROVE to the point where they will be able to do things like the Digimon themselves, Digivolving, and the Digital World in order to make it feasible in live-action. I think that we may one day get to that mark. (I was convinced of this when I saw Kenneth Branagh's Thor movie back in 2011, where he made things like Asgard, the Frost Giants of Jotunheim, and the general Norse mythology feel of the Marvel Comics feasible in live-action.) However, this means, IF a live-action Digimon movie ever happens (emphasis on the if) then the CGI and 3D animation technology needs to improve A LOT, which means we probably won't get a live-action Digimon movie for at least another fifteen to twenty years, give or take.

Next, is the characters. I think that Darwinskid has a right idea as where to take this story-wise. Now, as much as I love Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, Mimi, Joe, T.K., Kari, Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken, let's face it, they have no business being in a live-action movie, as they would probably feel out of place in a live-action movie for one big reason: Not trying to sound like a xenophobe here, but all those characters are Japanese. (Even though they have English names and American attitudes for the most part in the English dub.) However, you could base new characters off of them, and to take a page from Darwinskid, make the movie internationally focused (an idea that the second season never really explored enough with.) Have a Digidestineds (sp?) from all over the world, United States/Canada, the UK, South America, Japan, Russia, China, western Europe, Africa, Austrailia, etc.

Make the idea kind of like Tron, in which the kids are probably playing something like an MMORPG with Digimon-like characters (this is coming from someone who hates MMORPGs with a passion, mind you) with their computers on the Internet, and that's how they get things like the Digivice, their Digimon partner, and get into the Digital World. (Sorry, but the being sucked out of summer camp idea would just be too ridiculous for a live-action movie.)

Let the kids figure it out as well as getting to know eachother and their Digimon, the fact that the digital world is a living, breathing, parallel dimension with sentient creatures, and how their war with the evil Digimon is connected to the real world. This is where you could base your first movie on the Devimon story-arc, the second movie could be a blend based on the Etemon (don't focus too much on Etemon, since he wasn't that big of a character, and find some way to make the crest storyline work in live-action) and the Myotismon story arc (this is where the main focus of the film will be.) and in fact, this is where you could probably borrow a lot of ideas from the Michael Bay Transformers movies, in which you could probably have a climactic battle between the multi-national Digidestined, Myotismon and his army of evil Digimon, and forces of whichever country's military is there to defend it, assisting the Digidestined and their Digimon. (However, instead of going the Michael Bay route and having the military take out all the evil Digimon or say, something stupid like having the US Navy use a rail gun to destroy VenomMyotismon, yes, I'm looking at you Bay, I love your live-action Transformers movies, but I didn't like the fact that you didn't have the Autobots team up to fight Devestator and instead have him easily taken out by a lucky shot from the US Navy). Then finally, the third film in the trilogy that wraps up Adventure 1 should be released in two parts, much in the same way as the final Harry Potter film, with the Digidestined's battle with the Dark Masters (fight MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon, and Machinedramon in the first part) Part 2 would be released five or six months later with them fighting Piedmon and Apocalymon. Then the tearful goodbye as the trilogy ends, setting up for the trilogy based on Adventure 02.

That's my idea for Adventure 1, that is.

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a huge Digimon Fan,it would end up worse than the Dragon Ball movie




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