gothsaurus wrote:I wish they would start putting together some amazing one-off made for TV movies like we see with Batman, etc. ... using some animation studio with a great Ghost in the Shell style... slightly, anime slightly mech, dark, brooding, smoky, rain and neon soaked... AND then pick up where G1 left off with some great stories.
Yes for the most part the Warner/DC Animated films of the past decade (being released at the rate of about 3 per year) have been good. There have been a few duds, but with mostly PG-13 ratings they have been highly entertaining. Heck even the Marvel animated films produced by Liongate between 2007-2011 were pretty good for the most part.
The nice thing is they adapt stories from all eras. I was thinking Hasbro could do the same. Do some movies from the original animated series, some from the comics (Marvel, Dreamwave, or IDW). Some from Beast Wars, RiD, etc...
CW was my hope to perhaps start all this off...how sad I was so wrong. However Hasbro is still (I believe) the #2 ranked toy manufacturer in the world, are they not? The film franchise is building a Cinematic Universe off of 4 films that have made 3.5 Billion global box office thus far. One would think that developing a couple PG-13 animated films for teen/adult fans released on DVD/BRD/Digital (not some two bit online streaming channel almost nobody has heard of) would be a very achievable goal.
I mean just imagine if Hasbro commissioned Toei to animate a 70-80 minute movie now. Not CG, just traditional anime style, as close to the original as possible, but obviously with an updated look. Get some of the best writers/producers of the past decade. Michael Jelenic, Brandon Vietti, Greg Weisman, Jeff Kline etc... as many of the original Voice Cast as you can get, plus new voices that sound respectably close to the originals. How awesome would that be?
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