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So I guess since the Live Action Yamato movie did so well, this was inevitable...
06-28-2014, 07:13 AM
Lupin the 3rd!
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...shouldn't he be Lupin IV by now? It's been at least a generation...
Must say that looks potentially entertaining.
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It's like James Bond. He's eternal.
But a good way of addressing that concern would be to make the movie a period piece in the 60s or 70s.
And while I'm at it, I think one good way of making more James Bond movies that are more credible would be to do the same thing. James Bond was created for the 60s (and maybe the 70s), let's make all the James Bond movies into period pieces. X-Men First Class and X-Men DOFP proved you can do credible period pieces for that era.
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Logan, Bond was created for/in the 1950s. The books became a big thing in America when JFK mentioned enjoying them in an interview, which led more or less to the films.
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Eh - similar logic. You could also do what Batman the Animated series did - invoke the idea of a generalized "Middle of the Last Century" setting with little or no specifics in terms of specific decade mentioned.
Anyway - I think they've at least captured the right feel of Lupin in the trailer. We'll see how well it works as a full film soon.
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Well, an idea I've long had (and I've seen it used in at least one fanfic) is that 'James Bond' has become part of the 007 identity.
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Actually that idea dates back at least to Woody Allen's Casino Royale, with David Niven playing Sir James Bond, the original, complaining about the "homicidal sex maniac" they've got running around using his name.
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