New robot movie "Chappie" inspired by Masamune Shirow

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New robot movie "Chappie" inspired by Masamune Shirow

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I saw this article on ANN this morning and thought it was kinda neat: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... eos/.84373

Apparently the creator designed the robot of his story specifically to look like Appleseed's Briareos! I probably won't go see this in theaters, but I definitely want to check it out once it hits VOD or Netflix.
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I totally guessed it was based on Briareos when the trailer first appeared. This guy seems like he's inspired by mecha and anime in general, throughout a lot of his films and work.
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ryoran wrote:I totally guessed it was based on Briareos when the trailer first appeared. This guy seems like he's inspired by mecha and anime in general, throughout a lot of his films and work.
Yeah! I thought it did too so I was pretty excited to see that, lol. I've only seen one of his other movies (District 9), but it doesn't surprise me at all that he was a fan of anime/manga. (The article makes is sound like he was when he was younger, not so much anymore, though? Either way, still cool!)
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I'm still waiting for the second part of Dustrict 9. It was promised years ago and never delivered...
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_D_ wrote:I'm still waiting for the second part of Dustrict 9. It was promised years ago and never delivered...
I always wondered what happened to that, too...did the studio he was working with just decide to can it, thinking it wouldn't make enough money? :/a
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