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NEWS: Hello Kitty Gets 1st Hollywood Film by Warner




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ninjamitsuki



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:56 pm Reply with quote
I can't wait to see horrifying hyper-realistic Hello Kitty.
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Gemnist



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:16 pm Reply with quote
I’m... genuinely surprised this hasn’t happened sooner.
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CandisWhite



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:32 pm Reply with quote
Gemnist wrote:
I’m... genuinely surprised this hasn’t happened sooner.

Hello Kitty's stock in trade is sweetness and cuteness; Mainstream Hollywood has been moving away from un-ironic use of both in their children's films. "In on it", even lighthearted, seems to be a more standard baseline than straightforward joy and pleasure.

This film will either be a strong deviation from this norm with sincerity (not holding my breath), painted with Inside Out's brush of humour ( and God willing it's done with the same finesse), or a trainwreck of Nancy Drew meets Mario Brothers proportions.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:33 pm Reply with quote
Hollywood is already asking for another franchise to destroy and Sonic hasn't even hit theaters yet. This is becoming a nightmare for fans of Japanese media.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:51 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
Hollywood is already asking for another franchise to destroy and Sonic hasn't even hit theaters yet. This is becoming a nightmare for fans of Japanese media.

It's Hello Kitty.... The only thing this film has to be is cute.
If it's cute, then great, no part of this franchise will be harmed.

... so please for all that's good on this Earth, at least make sure it is cute looking!
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crazieanimefan1



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:36 am Reply with quote
As a kid in the 80s: "I gotta get my Fruity Pebbles! Hello Kitty's Furry Tail Theater's on this Saturday!"

As an adult now: "Dear God, don't let them live action Hello Kitty...I'd be scared of the franchise and my husband will be happy because he won't see another Hello Kitty thing in the house!"

If that horrorific Sonic the Hedgehog don't say anything, don't let it be live action...let it be a normal cartoon or at least something Pixar looking.
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Gemnist



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:15 am Reply with quote
CandisWhite wrote:
Gemnist wrote:
I’m... genuinely surprised this hasn’t happened sooner.

Hello Kitty's stock in trade is sweetness and cuteness; Mainstream Hollywood has been moving away from un-ironic use of both in their children's films. "In on it", even lighthearted, seems to be a more standard baseline than straightforward joy and pleasure.

This film will either be a strong deviation from this norm with sincerity (not holding my breath), painted with Inside Out's brush of humour ( and God willing it's done with the same finesse), or a trainwreck of Nancy Drew meets Mario Brothers proportions.


Hollywood going on a Dark Knight-fueled edgelord streak has nothing to do with it. Simply put, Hello Kitty was a hot commodity in America at one point, and yet no one in the biz capitalized on that.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:54 am Reply with quote
Hello Kitty appeared as a cameo in Stephen Spielberg's "Ready Player One".
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Ouran High School Dropout



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:27 am Reply with quote
Why does this fill me with an overpowering sense of dread? Why do the words "leaden and lifeless" suddenly pop into my head?

Oh, yeah. "Hollywood" + "anything beloved in America that came from Japan" = "impending doom". Do the math, silly.
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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:50 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
Hollywood is already asking for another franchise to destroy and Sonic hasn't even hit theaters yet. This is becoming a nightmare for fans of Japanese media.


....These people have survived a terrible Berserk adaptation, a dubious live action AOT/Fullmetal Alchemist/DiU adaptation, a Phantom Blood adaptation (that was never released outside of Japan or on home video) and a memetastic My Sister, My Writer anime.

This isn't anything new for them.
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CandisWhite



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:37 am Reply with quote
Gemnist wrote:
Hollywood going on a Dark Knight-fueled edgelord streak has nothing to do with it. Simply put, Hello Kitty was a hot commodity in America at one point, and yet no one in the biz capitalized on that.

Hello Kitty's popularity on this side of the pond has never waned; Her merchandise is still ev-er-y-where! Kids' makeup and picture books are just as ubiquitous as cosmetics and appliances for adults.

But that doesn't automatically translate to something that Hollywood can/wants to work with. A TV show? Yeah, that might have happened but a Hollywood film aimed at children that young is a rarity to start with and is usually pulled from domestic properties that are already successful as tv shows; Plus, Sanrio would be majorly protective of its golden goose: It's not something that would easily happen for something like Hello Kitty.

Either someone finally convinced Sanrio to sign off on a snark-fest or this is going to be a lot cuter than Hollywood expects its films to be. That's not a situation that usually has both sides working like a hand in a glove; It's easy to buy that this took decades just to get its existence off the ground.

That doesn't make the situation any less dumb but Hollywood tends to have a lot of dumb ideas about things so it's understandable.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 4:38 am Reply with quote
Will this be the start of a Sanrio film franchise? First Hello Kitty, then Gudetama, then Aggretsuko, then a HUGE CROSSOVER!
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