Astro Boy trailer to be shown within the month

[garfield15]

From ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-08/cg-astro-boy-film-teaser-to-be-made-public-this-month)


Felix Ip (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=44978), the creative director of the IMAGI (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=4285) animationstudio
(http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-08/cg-astro-boy-film-teaser-to-be-made-public-this-month#), revealed (http://felixip.blogspot.com/2008/11/astroboy-afm-party.html) in his personal blog that the teaser trailer for his studio's computer-animated Astro Boy (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10079) film will be screened before the public this month. David Bowers (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72904)' film revisits the Tetsuwan Atom (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1343) (Mighty Atom) robot boy hero created by the manga and anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=883) (Jungle Emperor (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1342)/Kimba the White Lion (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=627), Metropolis (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=2426), Black Jack (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1341)). IMAGI already previewed the teaser to corporate film buyers and distributors at the American Film Market on Wednesday night in Santa Monica, California. According to Ip, "the trailer will be shown to [the] public in theaters very soon (within this month)." His company also erected a promotional standee, pictured at right, at the event. The film features (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-15/space-jam-timothy-harris-to-pen-imagi-cg-astro-boy) the scriptwriter Timothy Harris (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72905) (Trading Places, Kindergarten Cop (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-08/cg-astro-boy-film-teaser-to-be-made-public-this-month#)) and a cast (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-10-09/matt-lucas-is-new-addition-to-imagi-astro-boy-cast) with Freddie Highmore (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72843) in the title role, Nicolas Cage (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72844), Donald Sutherland (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=23557), Nathan Lane (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72842), Bill Nighy (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72845), Eugene Levy (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72846), Kristen Bell (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=36968), and Matt Lucas. The film distributor Summit Entertainment plans (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-09-22/imagi-cg-astro-boy-film-to-open-on-october-23-2009) to open the film in over 3,000 North American theaters on October 23, 2009.
So we should look foward to it. Just one question.


http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q422/j_reader/standee.jpg

Why the heck is he wearing a shirt? Don't want children to see his raw metallic chest?

[veemonjosh]

Why the heck is he wearing a shirt? Don't want children to see his raw metallic chest?

Those are his civilian clothes...

He's worn variations of them in every incarnation of the series. :sweat:

[garfield15]

Those are his civilian clothes...

He's worn variations of them in every incarnation of the series. :sweat:

Oh yeah. Forgot about that between all the fighting and promotional imagery and stuff.

The CGI looks good though (I think?)

[Beat]

I predict a level of bashing not seen in years when the trailer hits. I'm more surprised the company itself is still around.

[Jtaylor1]

From ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-08/cg-astro-boy-film-teaser-to-be-made-public-this-month)

So we should look foward to it. Just one question.


http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q422/j_reader/standee.jpg

Why the heck is he wearing a shirt? Don't want children to see his raw metallic chest?

He looks like Jimmy Neutron.

[Vallen Valiant]

I predict a level of bashing not seen in years when the trailer hits. I'm more surprised the company itself is still around.
It would NOT be worse than the level of bashing the Live Action Dragonball Movie is getting.

[Beat]

It would NOT be worse than the level of bashing the Live Action Dragonball Movie is getting.

This will be worse.

Mostly because of Tezuka's work being the subject of butcher.

[GWOtaku]

This will be worse.

Mostly because of Tezuka's work being the subject of butcher.

I don't know about that. The basic premise of the movie doesn't seem too far off from the original source material. Astro getting built then abandoned, etc.

[HG Revolution]

Supposedly the trailer is actually already showing in front of Madagascar 2. Not that anyone here is going to see that movie.

[GWOtaku]

Supposedly the trailer is actually already showing in front of Madagascar 2. Not that anyone here is going to see that movie.

Also with Bolt later this month apparently, so there is that option too.

[SpaceCowboy]

I'm waiting for the Japanese dub.:p

[firecrouch]

The people at IMAGI Studios have gone on record saying a bunch of times that this movie will be a faithful origin story with approval and such from Tezuka Productions, so whatever bashing there'll be will be simply be that, bashing.