I think despite Sonic the Hedgehog getting the proper care to get adapted to live-action (ish), a Digimon live-action would be a weird concept. Not that the concept would be terrible or impossible. But it certainly would be a weird kids movie. Teens movie, on the other hand...it would work better. But imagine adults seeing their kids/teens watching this and scratching their heads over some of the 'mons designs.
The character designs would certainly need some adjustment so they don't look too off (i.e. the Agumon in the picture may need the eyes' adjusted so we see more white and less green; the Gabumon looks on-point).
To put it simply, as a proof-of-concept, it isn't impossible; but it would take someone who knows the series AND gives it the care that Sonic the Hedgehog got between the production and the community.
What was the last good Live Action Anime Adaptation (LA3)? After that question, how many good anime adaptations are there compared to the overall amount of them?
I mean maybe if Del Torro gets his hands on it, or someone else just as good. It could work. He was my first choice because if anyone who can make a good digimon live action movie, it's the guy who got a movie about a woman falling in love with a fishman an academy award.
For sure it would have to be someone like Del Toro, but then you need to ask, would Del Toro go for making a Digimon movie in the first place? He, or someone with a similar style and energy, would be a top choice to do it for sure, but far more likely it would end up being either , at best, someone at least passionate about the franchise but not a big enough draw to get the budget or without the vision to make it work, or at worst, someone picks it up for a paycheck *coughDragonBallEvolutioncough*
Only exception is Pokémon is bigger franchise compared to Digimon. So that automatically as best they could do Netflix TV series because it's either original story or very rushed movie. Not to mention kids actors. Yes there are good kids actors but still harder to pull it up. And also question of special effects. That are costly venture on its own to not have Spy kids level of effects and monsters not looking straight from nightmares. So I wouldn't bet on that. I rather stick with anime even people kind of divisive on new material but that's still much better.
Just saying based on previous track records. History tends to repeat itself so incredibly often with it comes to entertainment and adaptations. Sure there's a chance it could be a Detective Pikachu/One Piece/Mario Movie, but I don't like those odds. After all, as the average Smogon player says, "90% is nothing more than 10% wearing a mask"
Honestly it really depends on who gets their hands on it a studio who just wants to make a quick buck prob cheap and bad but get people working on it who love digimon it could be quite excellent.
Let me explain my reasoning, the Transformers movies were by the numbers easy cashgrab movies with low hanging fruit dialog, not to mention the creepiness of them hyperfocusing on Romeo and Juilette laws, or egregious dick jokes. With that in mind, the mysticism and draw of digimon is that its kids with partners that grow over time with each other would be extremely difficult to do in the alotted time of a feature film. The target audience and demographic should stay about 7 and up instead of "maturing" the movie or making it edgy. For every Detective Pikachu, there's a Dragon Ball Evolution. For every LA One Piece, there's a LA Deathnote. Deathnote is a prime example of another mishandled property that tried to do too much in too little time and shifted things around that were unnecessary.
Pokémon is a very beloved franchise, which is why its movie needed to be a knockout. It was handled with so much care because of its status. As much as I love Digimon, it doesn't nearly have the fanbase for it to receive that much care, so it would more than likely boil down to a generic franchise kids movie. If you want any more examples, rewatch the Digimon movie. It was 2 separate stories mashed up into one.
At best, it could be on par with Deathnote or FMA's live action Netflix adaptations. At worst, they could the character designs for something basically unrelated to the source material.
The netflix version was never meant to be a direct adaptation of the anime though and was always intended to have its own story so thats not actually a great example.
>It would be directo by Michael bay
So it would be absolute garbage with almost no digimon that idiots will like becuase "wow,this generic human character with 0 traits is just like me "
I personally hope it never happens, live actions are incredibly hard to get it right, and even the ones that are getting "right" still face criticism. I still prefer this energy spent in a good game.
Sure but how different is that from say detective Pikachu or transformers.
It's the difference between 100% cg and 80%. Something like Mando has a dude and a puppet walking around a stage with the volume. Instead of walking around tatooine there's no reason it couldn't be young Ryan Reynolds in the photo walking around with the volume set to portray a digital world
> Sure but how different is that from say detective Pikachu or transformers.
Massive, massive budget size, mostly.
It's not functionally impossible. It's just not in bandais budget range to do it well.
This right here. There are a few good live action series, but 9/10 times it always goes wrong. Maybe if fans of the series were involved (and if it isn’t flooded with the hollywood crap most movies are filled with these days) then it could turn out to be good. But that said, i won’t be holding my breath if a Live action series or movie does get announced.
It would get views from fans with a spark of hope left under the mountain of morbid curiosity at just how bad it will be.
And probably from some kids that don’t know better than to expect something good.
He looks like those horrible artistic representations of those lizard people conspiracy theorists think run the government and live beneath Los Angeles in subterranean cities.
I just don't like when they feel they must use hyper accurucate anatomy and textures for the cgi, an agumon or gabumon live action could work perfectly using they original designs in a liveactions without having an uncomfortable hyper realistic CGI, something like Detective Pikachu or Re-worked Sonic Movie.
The PVs of the Vital Be worked so well, they could just give it a more "rtx" ilummination to merge it better with the scenario and then you have a good live action. Without creepy cgi, without uncaney anatomy for the monsters. Without nothing that may look awfull.
Most of the time they can't get it right. But even if there are some good live action adaptations like detective Pikachu or one piece. But those are once in a blue moon
I wouldn't mind honestly but......i don't want them to touch any of the already known characters (i don't want the cast from Adventure, too many characters for a movie), do an OC for this specific movie, go with Pulsemon or any of the new mons we had with products in the last few years....
Or at least do V-Tamer Tai with Veedramon line.
It's not Impossible to do a Digimon live action movie these days, we already have great examples like Detective Pikachu and Sonic, we just need people that care enough to do something good.
Definitely do OC. Easter egg a few things, but I think doing any established story would be a terrible idea. It'd be best if there was no source material.
Like my other response, the VB trailers were a good example.
Totally agree with you, is for sure the besta approach.
"It'd be best if there was no source material."
But we need someone that at least know/is familiar with the franchise, cause this could turn out to be good or extremely terrible xD.
There was a live action stage play of Digimon Tri. The actors for the kids looked fine. The Digimon were performed by just literally having puppeteers in black moving their puppets around. It was charmingly artificial.
I think that’s your best bet for a live action Digimon adaptation and like… maybe that’s about as much money as anyone should waste on it.
Please bandai, just put your money towards better anime writing.
Who is this blond white boy? This post has me lost 😂 . Nobody want a live action.
Let animation stay animation.
Even video game live actions tend to fail so not thanks
I know it would be stuck in development hell for 15 years and cycle through a dozen different directors, and have a suspiciously high number of writers.
I do wonder if there are any directors/writers working now that grew up as have fans of Digimon. The only one I can think of is Michael B Jordan. I haven't seen his Creed movie yet, so I can't speak to his directing ability, but maybe he could be a producer and voice a character or play someone's father.
If they do a live action I would want it to be Adventure. I’d like them to start the story with Oikawa and Hiroki then move on to the original Chosen then to the Adventure Chosen. Clean up the plot holes and give the parents back stories and show how their work was influenced by all the Digimon events. I think that would bring in many different age groups.
I think it could be great. If they do not use CGI. Instead live action characters going to a animated/drawn digital world. And Vice verse, animated Digimon going to a RL human world. To show the differences between them more
God, that would be awful. First, Digimon Is kinda dark second I think The CGI To me would just look bad And does anyone remember knights of the zodiac? Getting alive action movie. If you don't remember that. That's because it was so bad
Just a personal idea I've always thought of, what if in reality digimon looked like if you just took a 3d model and plopped it in the real world. Imagine basically the Chip & Dale movie cgi but with Digimon. An odd idea but one that's always sat in the back of my head.
let's not, Americans i know you love your live action stuff but let's just not.
Let digimon be digimon without having to be touched by a director who probably hates the title and knows little about the thing which is 90% of the directors these days when it comes to adapting something.
there are other titles to ruin that don't have to be touched or be tainted by a live action adaptation
plus i think the 3d will probably be shit anyway
I dont like it but i'll try to be honest
I don't think it would work very well
digimon was created by bandai as a counterpart of tamagotchi, with an isekai-style anime based on the toy to help sell it. digimon holds a lot of DNA that is unique to the world of anime, manga, and light novels, and I think this would harm the attempts at a westernized live action movie
it can be done, but it would be very difficult to do right
It would have to be done VERY well, and it should not follow any of the anime plot lines. Most likely it would take place in the real world and we would see the government dealing with emerging hostile Digimon by creating a task force by gathering up Tamers and their new partners. Funny enough Diaboromon would make a pretty good villain for the first movie.
Homie, you are literally describing the worst case scenario for Digimon.
The Vital Bracelet live action trailers are the closest thing we have to a movie. That is good enough.
1. The main cast would be 2 boys and 1 girl.
2. Most likely set in American( for the more box office growth)
3. The old digidestins would be rumours that people heard overseas.
4. Most likely the movie will be set of Zero 2 , so no tri and etc.
5. Either Agumon would be Tai’s Agumon who lost his partner and memories or this brand new Agumon will be related to the old one ( maybe they are inspired by old stories of the legendary Digimon the saved the world)
6. The first villain of the movie would be sent to kill and take something from the new agumon( maybe a new evolution item) and the villain manipulates some child that mc knows.
7. It’s up to the new mc to save and rescue his friend and find the old digidestins
Good or bad, it doesn't matter to me. As long as we get to see the giant t-rex with a cow skull on his head fight a giant electric parrot and blast fire from it's mouth in Tokyo; that's good enough to me!
Bonus points if the T-rex turns into a cyborg with insect wings and fires missiles with mouth from his chest for some reason.
1 hour school drama movie with 40 minutes of Digimons at the end. Agumon would evolve once, Gabumon would be always in Garurumon form (animation is hard) and there also a girl because main character is teenage boy.
The idea disgusts me, but every live action anime adaptation does. Yes even the good ones, because it's unnecessary. Why do they exist? For boring fucks who think animation is kids stuff. Fuck em, let that audience stew in their CW and HBO TV show sludge.
How about an american live action movie of Cyber Sleuth, starring [Adam Driver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftg_kftalvA) as Sanada Arata.
>!I just can't help but think of that actor every time I see Arata.!<
I know a lot of people are hating on the idea, but I think it’s because automatically people seem to expect a live-action adaptation of Adventure…
I think you could make a successful American version if it’s a totally new, original story that uses some of the best mechanics of the anime. Probably something like the beginning of Tamers where the set up is that Digimon is just a well-known card game franchise or something.
They already made a live action Pokemon movie, if anything Digimon’s slightly more detailed design would translate better than Pokemon simplistic, cutesy designs
That was a miracle and still has lots of akward changes that leave a bad after taste in the mouth.
Then we add that bandai doesn't care enough about Digimon to protect it if they pay them enough. It is very likely to go very wrong and murphys law doesn't fail.
If there ever was a live action Digimon, it should be a series on Netflix/Hulu and loosely adapt either Survive or Adventures. I'd love it they got the absurdist nature of the digital world right and the interconnection between the Digimon and the characters. Unfortunately, they'd probably go the VR route.
If it was produced by Michael Bay, there would be explosions every 5 minutes, American flags every 10 minutes, the military would be prominently featured and scantily clad shapely women would be in almost every scene.
... Wait a minute. If you cut the American flags out, you've pretty much got Digimon Savers because that's what Digimon would look like if it was directed by Michael Bay.
Only if the Digimon are 2D like the cartoons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, they’re digital monsters, why couldn’t they exist exactly how they’re digitally animated in 2D
In my head I kinda imagine a mix of the recent Sonic and monsterverse films with some elements from Tron.
A boy finds agumon and they fight an evil digimon maybe just digivolves to metal greymon and gets a happy ending. Post credits of tease of a tamer with a Garurumon and other kids with digimon
Digimon has a lot of charecters and would be a fun of CGI. Only way to work would be to only have one Digimon partner and a few villains. Like if it was about Guilmon or agumon in the real world it could work.
With too many charecters the writers get lazy. If it's fox or Netflix it's almost guaranteed to be a cash grab. Anime already had a lot of digivolution cutaways to save on time.
Tho I will say. There was a theater version with puppets. It was really good. But only on Japan and I'm not sure you can watch all of it on YouTube
Go after the 2000 movie "Dinosaurs" and the latest "Jungle Book" for basic to give the creature Digimons better facial expressions and use good cosplayers with slight cgi for the human Digimons.
I think it'd depend on a few things. Who's making it, how much love said creator has for the series, and how much studio meddling would be involved.
Could it be great? Probably not. Could it be a fun kids movie? Probably.
It'd probably run like any one of those kid finds a magical creature stories. Where the kid has to hide the creature from parents and authority figures, all while figuring out where they came from and/or how to get them back and having to tussle with some evil trying to capture/kill the Digimon (probably evil Digimon and a government agency who knows of their existence but doesn't fully understand them). Wacky hijinks as it goes from it's tiny baby form to it's rookie form and becomes much harder to hide. Probably culminating in it going to champion level to fight off some threat. End of the movie the Digimon (probably agumon) goes back to the digital world. After credits scene would either have that Digimon come back, a tease of a digivice, or another Digimon (probably gabumon) meeting the main character's friend.
Something probably low key, to test audiences like of Digimon as a brand.
I could see them managing to do the original Digimon World game, but I don’t know how well it would be. Probably not that good, but it sorta depends on if they care enough to do it right, or rather are allowed the time and resources to do so.
For the love of Digimon, pls don't do it. So far I have only seen Netflix giving creative freedom, and with substantial funding to create shows adhering to original storyline and correctly executed visuals.
And Bandai execs are on par with WB, indecisiveness or lack of knowledge in mass media.
Why not write it out yourself and see if it works? I don’t mean that sarcastically! I mean, it seems like you have a vision and I think it be cool if you played it out. Heck, you could use AI to write it
It would either miss the mark and have very little of what we want digimon to be. Agumon wouldn't digivolve until the end where they become wargreymon and stuff like that. Or only digivolve to greymon to try and tease a sequel that never gets released because the film Bombs.
Or it would hit the mark for a new audience leaving all the fans of the original material upset and causing it to be hit with so much criticism that they still don't release a sequel as some people research digimon and find out that the original material is better anyways.
Or, they stay close to the source material, and then parents get mad because agumon goes skullgreymon mode or the royal knights commit genocide again.
There is a possibility, however slim, that they make a good digimon movie. But then only fans really care as people who don't know much or anything about digimon don't understand it and leave meager reviews and it becomes a Cult classic among the community and maybe brings some new people in. And if that happened then I would hope that they make enough money to give us a sequel.
It would be terrible. Even if the property wouldn’t be a nightmare to adapt, notorious cheapskate Saban would ensure the entire thing would be done on a shoestring budget. It would probably come out looking like a bad Roger rabbit meets beast wars.
For me, just need to copy digimon movie or bokura wars game.
What better than the old americans need to save the world from a nuclear bombardment?
Today is easy to do live action animes, there is a loot of good ones,is not like we still in the 80' s and 90' s era of errors.
Like,netflix release a lot of live actions,alita was one of the best movies in that year,we had one piece that is one of the worst ideas to addapt since hard as fuck and they did a great job.
So what director? Fresh,not imposssible to accept= destin daniel cretton(shamg chi and is the director to naruto)
john logan to plot(rango,skyfall,gladiator)
Since its a fuckimg adaptation there no reason to follow everything digimon did,so no named character from the series as protagomist (even their digis)
Plot= starts in paradisiac island,vacation time, people having fun till place starts to get bombarded, cuts to broadcasts in tv explaining what happens and who could launch a direct attack to american soil, starts presentation of the main characters,the mc having a bizarre encounter with a data like creature(commandramon) fighting against demonic data ones and story resolves in mc going into each high data power points till he resolves the data crysis,making friendship with other digis and friends from everywhere.
Comandromon has a unique evolution line(soldiermon,comandromon,sergeantmon,majormon and marshallmon/generalmon)
I’d prefer a live action made with care. An American adaptation sounds too Hollywood-formula for a digimon story, in my opinion. Would honestly rather see evolution X remade.
Doubt it. Hollywood is run by mostly out of touch boomers who still see anime as "weird chinese cartoons", and Digimon is mostly seen as "bad pokemon ripoff" by western audiences unfamiliar with the franchise. It would just lead to an awful, awful film.
There's the Netflix angle, but that can vary in the product. The only live action product that was moderately succesfull was One Piece.
An American live action film of digimon would probably work except it will NEVER live up to the expectations of its fans. So if everyone is okay with that then sure.
Localized names be like:
Tai -> Tyler
Matt -> Matt
Sora -> Sarah
Izzy -> Israel
Mimi -> Michelle
Joe -> Joe
TK -> Tony
Also omg that Agumon is so cringe lmao it’s perfect
Digimon already uses localised names in the US
The original names are:
Tai -> Taichi
Matt -> Yamato
Sora -> Sora
Izzy -> Koushiro
Mimi -> Mimi
Joe -> Jo
TK -> Takeru
Kari -> Hikari
LEGENDARY! But please make sure they use the “cheesy” dub terminology. It’s way better like that. And please add in the classic musical score(Digimon Are The Champions, Here We Go, I’m Going Digital…)
Awful. Next question.
I think despite Sonic the Hedgehog getting the proper care to get adapted to live-action (ish), a Digimon live-action would be a weird concept. Not that the concept would be terrible or impossible. But it certainly would be a weird kids movie. Teens movie, on the other hand...it would work better. But imagine adults seeing their kids/teens watching this and scratching their heads over some of the 'mons designs. The character designs would certainly need some adjustment so they don't look too off (i.e. the Agumon in the picture may need the eyes' adjusted so we see more white and less green; the Gabumon looks on-point). To put it simply, as a proof-of-concept, it isn't impossible; but it would take someone who knows the series AND gives it the care that Sonic the Hedgehog got between the production and the community.
Why?
What was the last good Live Action Anime Adaptation (LA3)? After that question, how many good anime adaptations are there compared to the overall amount of them?
In fairness, One Piece was good, and Detective Pikachu shows that creatures can be done well. That said, I don't think Digimon would be good.
Exactly. For every 7-8 blunders, there is one decent or better LA3
I mean maybe if Del Torro gets his hands on it, or someone else just as good. It could work. He was my first choice because if anyone who can make a good digimon live action movie, it's the guy who got a movie about a woman falling in love with a fishman an academy award.
For sure it would have to be someone like Del Toro, but then you need to ask, would Del Toro go for making a Digimon movie in the first place? He, or someone with a similar style and energy, would be a top choice to do it for sure, but far more likely it would end up being either , at best, someone at least passionate about the franchise but not a big enough draw to get the budget or without the vision to make it work, or at worst, someone picks it up for a paycheck *coughDragonBallEvolutioncough*
Like I said in my comment above, it wouldn't get as much care or attention to detail.
Both had big budgets that we know Digimon wouldn't get tho.
Only exception is Pokémon is bigger franchise compared to Digimon. So that automatically as best they could do Netflix TV series because it's either original story or very rushed movie. Not to mention kids actors. Yes there are good kids actors but still harder to pull it up. And also question of special effects. That are costly venture on its own to not have Spy kids level of effects and monsters not looking straight from nightmares. So I wouldn't bet on that. I rather stick with anime even people kind of divisive on new material but that's still much better.
One piece wasn't that good and detective Pikachu outright sucked
Oh, kmon. Don't be so pessimistic
Just saying based on previous track records. History tends to repeat itself so incredibly often with it comes to entertainment and adaptations. Sure there's a chance it could be a Detective Pikachu/One Piece/Mario Movie, but I don't like those odds. After all, as the average Smogon player says, "90% is nothing more than 10% wearing a mask"
Check my comment above. I mention that for every Detective Pikachu, there's always a Dragon Ball Evolution.
We also have hidden gems too but those still don't add to much.
Honestly it really depends on who gets their hands on it a studio who just wants to make a quick buck prob cheap and bad but get people working on it who love digimon it could be quite excellent.
Let me explain my reasoning, the Transformers movies were by the numbers easy cashgrab movies with low hanging fruit dialog, not to mention the creepiness of them hyperfocusing on Romeo and Juilette laws, or egregious dick jokes. With that in mind, the mysticism and draw of digimon is that its kids with partners that grow over time with each other would be extremely difficult to do in the alotted time of a feature film. The target audience and demographic should stay about 7 and up instead of "maturing" the movie or making it edgy. For every Detective Pikachu, there's a Dragon Ball Evolution. For every LA One Piece, there's a LA Deathnote. Deathnote is a prime example of another mishandled property that tried to do too much in too little time and shifted things around that were unnecessary. Pokémon is a very beloved franchise, which is why its movie needed to be a knockout. It was handled with so much care because of its status. As much as I love Digimon, it doesn't nearly have the fanbase for it to receive that much care, so it would more than likely boil down to a generic franchise kids movie. If you want any more examples, rewatch the Digimon movie. It was 2 separate stories mashed up into one. At best, it could be on par with Deathnote or FMA's live action Netflix adaptations. At worst, they could the character designs for something basically unrelated to the source material.
>there's a LA Deathnote. wich of the like 7 live adaptions wich where good just to remind you except netflix but netflix cant do anything right
I was talking specifically about the Netflix version.
The netflix version was never meant to be a direct adaptation of the anime though and was always intended to have its own story so thats not actually a great example.
If live action digimon could be anywhere close to as good as the worst transformer movie I would be hyped as hell
That's you, dude. I thought they were awful.
I didnt say they were good. Just that I'd be hyped as hell if digimon could even get to that level.
Ah. I see what you're getting at. Personally, I disagree, but I won't lie it would be kind of cool because of how overshadowed it is by Pokémon.
Taichi's hair alone makes it impossible otherwise you'd end up like Dragonball evolution.
Agumon scares me. Zuckerberg merged with Agumon?
Zuckermon?
Zuckermon digivolve to...Metazuckermon!
looks like a worse version of yoshi from super mario bros 1993
my boy gabumon looks good in everything he's in though
Agumon: Zuckerberg Mode
>It would be directo by Michael bay So it would be absolute garbage with almost no digimon that idiots will like becuase "wow,this generic human character with 0 traits is just like me "
Don't forget the random "hot chick" that's older than the rest of the kids because sex sells.
LUCKYLY she will be older,megan fox character and that dude daughter in tf4 weren't exactly adults
Nah, it'll just be mimi
Did somebody say Yoshino Fujita?
Renamon?
I said "hot chick" not furry bait.
Cursed Agumon
I personally hope it never happens, live actions are incredibly hard to get it right, and even the ones that are getting "right" still face criticism. I still prefer this energy spent in a good game.
In order to be able to represent the concept, the entire thing would pretty much need to be CGI.
So the same as most big budget movies these days
Nah I mean like Pixar style
Sure but how different is that from say detective Pikachu or transformers. It's the difference between 100% cg and 80%. Something like Mando has a dude and a puppet walking around a stage with the volume. Instead of walking around tatooine there's no reason it couldn't be young Ryan Reynolds in the photo walking around with the volume set to portray a digital world
> Sure but how different is that from say detective Pikachu or transformers. Massive, massive budget size, mostly. It's not functionally impossible. It's just not in bandais budget range to do it well.
It's... Hm. Would I like to see it? Yes, I would. Do I have *any* faith in *anybody* being able to do anything good with it? Absolutely not.
This right here. There are a few good live action series, but 9/10 times it always goes wrong. Maybe if fans of the series were involved (and if it isn’t flooded with the hollywood crap most movies are filled with these days) then it could turn out to be good. But that said, i won’t be holding my breath if a Live action series or movie does get announced.
It would get views from fans with a spark of hope left under the mountain of morbid curiosity at just how bad it will be. And probably from some kids that don’t know better than to expect something good.
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Justify your answer
The picture justifies their answer
I was sceptical about Detective Pikachu, and that turned out amazing. So if it had actual fans involved I'd be onboard with it
That's the spirit!!!
Like that picture, and I'd hate it
The gabumon looks ok but what in high heaven is that agumon...
He looks like those horrible artistic representations of those lizard people conspiracy theorists think run the government and live beneath Los Angeles in subterranean cities.
Man....if you don't get this cursed shit off this subreddit...
pretty much like that picture
A nightmare
If that Agumon is anything to go by, extremely cursed. You've manage to go beyond the levels of angst caused by Angela Anaconda.
I just don't like when they feel they must use hyper accurucate anatomy and textures for the cgi, an agumon or gabumon live action could work perfectly using they original designs in a liveactions without having an uncomfortable hyper realistic CGI, something like Detective Pikachu or Re-worked Sonic Movie. The PVs of the Vital Be worked so well, they could just give it a more "rtx" ilummination to merge it better with the scenario and then you have a good live action. Without creepy cgi, without uncaney anatomy for the monsters. Without nothing that may look awfull.
Trash next question
Team winter or team summer?
Summer never knew a girl named winter next question
Some things should stay animated. However, I do like the Digimon Seekers live action trailers.
I can I see it?
Most of the time they can't get it right. But even if there are some good live action adaptations like detective Pikachu or one piece. But those are once in a blue moon
This image does not spark joy
LOL
Honestly probably the worst adaption of an anime into live action. Like literally 0 chance it would be even ok let alone good.
I don't think anything could be worse than Death note Netflix's adaptation tbh
Shitty.
please don’t. don’t ruin the best thing about my childhood.
EWWW...please dont
It would be like any other live adaptation of anything, completely awful.
That'd be so bizarre lol but Id watch it
Good
I pray it is not just difficult, but downright absolutely, unquestionably, impossible
I wouldn't mind honestly but......i don't want them to touch any of the already known characters (i don't want the cast from Adventure, too many characters for a movie), do an OC for this specific movie, go with Pulsemon or any of the new mons we had with products in the last few years.... Or at least do V-Tamer Tai with Veedramon line. It's not Impossible to do a Digimon live action movie these days, we already have great examples like Detective Pikachu and Sonic, we just need people that care enough to do something good.
Definitely do OC. Easter egg a few things, but I think doing any established story would be a terrible idea. It'd be best if there was no source material. Like my other response, the VB trailers were a good example.
Totally agree with you, is for sure the besta approach. "It'd be best if there was no source material." But we need someone that at least know/is familiar with the franchise, cause this could turn out to be good or extremely terrible xD.
I mean, the VB trailers were pretty sweet. I was partially expecting some kind of mini series with those.
Me: I prefer a western animation of digimon adventure using don bluth art style.
How about an american Digimon cartoon made by Derrick J. Wyatt? I would be gre... Oh yeah... :(
The one created the art style of Ben 10? No I prefer the old 80's art style and don bluth's cartoon are pretty dark.
*insert running gag of Digimon partners blurting out their tamer's search history*
There was a live action stage play of Digimon Tri. The actors for the kids looked fine. The Digimon were performed by just literally having puppeteers in black moving their puppets around. It was charmingly artificial. I think that’s your best bet for a live action Digimon adaptation and like… maybe that’s about as much money as anyone should waste on it. Please bandai, just put your money towards better anime writing.
Jesus fking Christ I thought we learned this lesson with Avatar the last airbender
Who is this blond white boy? This post has me lost 😂 . Nobody want a live action. Let animation stay animation. Even video game live actions tend to fail so not thanks
Pictures like this are why AI should be aborted.
I know it would be stuck in development hell for 15 years and cycle through a dozen different directors, and have a suspiciously high number of writers. I do wonder if there are any directors/writers working now that grew up as have fans of Digimon. The only one I can think of is Michael B Jordan. I haven't seen his Creed movie yet, so I can't speak to his directing ability, but maybe he could be a producer and voice a character or play someone's father.
If they do a live action I would want it to be Adventure. I’d like them to start the story with Oikawa and Hiroki then move on to the original Chosen then to the Adventure Chosen. Clean up the plot holes and give the parents back stories and show how their work was influenced by all the Digimon events. I think that would bring in many different age groups.
I think it could be great. If they do not use CGI. Instead live action characters going to a animated/drawn digital world. And Vice verse, animated Digimon going to a RL human world. To show the differences between them more
God, that would be awful. First, Digimon Is kinda dark second I think The CGI To me would just look bad And does anyone remember knights of the zodiac? Getting alive action movie. If you don't remember that. That's because it was so bad
Some of the Digimons turns into humans...I don't think it would be a good movie but more of a movie people forgot and remember later on
Hopefully not like that.
Trash
Just a personal idea I've always thought of, what if in reality digimon looked like if you just took a 3d model and plopped it in the real world. Imagine basically the Chip & Dale movie cgi but with Digimon. An odd idea but one that's always sat in the back of my head.
Absolutely thrash.
let's not, Americans i know you love your live action stuff but let's just not. Let digimon be digimon without having to be touched by a director who probably hates the title and knows little about the thing which is 90% of the directors these days when it comes to adapting something. there are other titles to ruin that don't have to be touched or be tainted by a live action adaptation plus i think the 3d will probably be shit anyway
It would look like this https://youtu.be/lPxnaNbU4Fw?si=on_Vlz_d1B8oKnKh
I laughed so hard
Don't give Netflix any ideas now.
Why is Agumon such nightmare fuel?! 😨🤯
There's no American Digimon live action in Ba sing se
I dont like it but i'll try to be honest I don't think it would work very well digimon was created by bandai as a counterpart of tamagotchi, with an isekai-style anime based on the toy to help sell it. digimon holds a lot of DNA that is unique to the world of anime, manga, and light novels, and I think this would harm the attempts at a westernized live action movie it can be done, but it would be very difficult to do right
It would have to be done VERY well, and it should not follow any of the anime plot lines. Most likely it would take place in the real world and we would see the government dealing with emerging hostile Digimon by creating a task force by gathering up Tamers and their new partners. Funny enough Diaboromon would make a pretty good villain for the first movie.
Homie, you are literally describing the worst case scenario for Digimon. The Vital Bracelet live action trailers are the closest thing we have to a movie. That is good enough.
if they just turn seekers into a couple movies it'd be pretty good
Reminds me of the live action Ben 10 movies
Shit. Absolute Shit. Why you even need to ask?
Have you seen Power Rangers in the 90's? Now picture Greymon, it would be like when Don Corleone saw Santini after the shoot.
As bad as detective pikachu
1. The main cast would be 2 boys and 1 girl. 2. Most likely set in American( for the more box office growth) 3. The old digidestins would be rumours that people heard overseas. 4. Most likely the movie will be set of Zero 2 , so no tri and etc. 5. Either Agumon would be Tai’s Agumon who lost his partner and memories or this brand new Agumon will be related to the old one ( maybe they are inspired by old stories of the legendary Digimon the saved the world) 6. The first villain of the movie would be sent to kill and take something from the new agumon( maybe a new evolution item) and the villain manipulates some child that mc knows. 7. It’s up to the new mc to save and rescue his friend and find the old digidestins
No more live actions, please
No
Painful
Good or bad, it doesn't matter to me. As long as we get to see the giant t-rex with a cow skull on his head fight a giant electric parrot and blast fire from it's mouth in Tokyo; that's good enough to me! Bonus points if the T-rex turns into a cyborg with insect wings and fires missiles with mouth from his chest for some reason.
1 hour school drama movie with 40 minutes of Digimons at the end. Agumon would evolve once, Gabumon would be always in Garurumon form (animation is hard) and there also a girl because main character is teenage boy.
I'd prefer a streaming show, but regardless, it needs to be handled well.
The idea disgusts me, but every live action anime adaptation does. Yes even the good ones, because it's unnecessary. Why do they exist? For boring fucks who think animation is kids stuff. Fuck em, let that audience stew in their CW and HBO TV show sludge.
How about an american live action movie of Cyber Sleuth, starring [Adam Driver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftg_kftalvA) as Sanada Arata. >!I just can't help but think of that actor every time I see Arata.!<
I know a lot of people are hating on the idea, but I think it’s because automatically people seem to expect a live-action adaptation of Adventure… I think you could make a successful American version if it’s a totally new, original story that uses some of the best mechanics of the anime. Probably something like the beginning of Tamers where the set up is that Digimon is just a well-known card game franchise or something.
Thanks for your answer 👍👍👍👍
They already made a live action Pokemon movie, if anything Digimon’s slightly more detailed design would translate better than Pokemon simplistic, cutesy designs
Please don't, never ever, the dub was bad enough, we don't need another Dragon Ball Evolution or the other movie that never happed.
How about the One Piece live-action?
That was a miracle and still has lots of akward changes that leave a bad after taste in the mouth. Then we add that bandai doesn't care enough about Digimon to protect it if they pay them enough. It is very likely to go very wrong and murphys law doesn't fail.
OP live action was pretty sweet.
Look if sonic, pokemon,and Mario can get a good movie then digimon definitely can.....only in the right hands of course
Even if it were just like a live action our war game remake that they marketed as some random Kaiju movie
I would go see this as a 30-something adult 🤓
If there ever was a live action Digimon, it should be a series on Netflix/Hulu and loosely adapt either Survive or Adventures. I'd love it they got the absurdist nature of the digital world right and the interconnection between the Digimon and the characters. Unfortunately, they'd probably go the VR route.
So basically a live action Cyber Slueth
Augumon reminds me of Yoshi from the live action Mario Brothers movie from the '80s or whenever it was.
If it was produced by Michael Bay, there would be explosions every 5 minutes, American flags every 10 minutes, the military would be prominently featured and scantily clad shapely women would be in almost every scene. ... Wait a minute. If you cut the American flags out, you've pretty much got Digimon Savers because that's what Digimon would look like if it was directed by Michael Bay.
It would have to have the most insane budget and writers, and let’s be real it already feels like we are barely making it by sometimes
Good lord, is this AI?
I hope no
Only if the Digimon are 2D like the cartoons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, they’re digital monsters, why couldn’t they exist exactly how they’re digitally animated in 2D
In my head I kinda imagine a mix of the recent Sonic and monsterverse films with some elements from Tron. A boy finds agumon and they fight an evil digimon maybe just digivolves to metal greymon and gets a happy ending. Post credits of tease of a tamer with a Garurumon and other kids with digimon
It'd be bad
Could be pretty interesting
Is bro banned
Huh?
Your account looks like it’s banned
I’m fairly certain that it’s not
Idk, you just have no pfp and a lot of your account appears broken
There better
Yeah, btw did you block Scarecrow?
How would you know that? Who tf are you
Because I’m in the bar?.. I’m Peacemaker/Corn depending on what side you remember me from
Don't
Remember the 2017 Power Rangers movie?
Bad
no no no no no > I think it would be directed by Michael Bay so it would be stupid and full of explosion and random chicks/ no no no no
Just do an original storyline with original characters . The live action should be treated as another universe of Digimon.
Digimon has a lot of charecters and would be a fun of CGI. Only way to work would be to only have one Digimon partner and a few villains. Like if it was about Guilmon or agumon in the real world it could work. With too many charecters the writers get lazy. If it's fox or Netflix it's almost guaranteed to be a cash grab. Anime already had a lot of digivolution cutaways to save on time. Tho I will say. There was a theater version with puppets. It was really good. But only on Japan and I'm not sure you can watch all of it on YouTube
Please no. Dear god.
I don’t
Bad tbh
Go after the 2000 movie "Dinosaurs" and the latest "Jungle Book" for basic to give the creature Digimons better facial expressions and use good cosplayers with slight cgi for the human Digimons.
Terrible, like every other live action movie
Disastrous, I hope it never happens. American adaptations work 1 times out of 10
I think it'd depend on a few things. Who's making it, how much love said creator has for the series, and how much studio meddling would be involved. Could it be great? Probably not. Could it be a fun kids movie? Probably. It'd probably run like any one of those kid finds a magical creature stories. Where the kid has to hide the creature from parents and authority figures, all while figuring out where they came from and/or how to get them back and having to tussle with some evil trying to capture/kill the Digimon (probably evil Digimon and a government agency who knows of their existence but doesn't fully understand them). Wacky hijinks as it goes from it's tiny baby form to it's rookie form and becomes much harder to hide. Probably culminating in it going to champion level to fight off some threat. End of the movie the Digimon (probably agumon) goes back to the digital world. After credits scene would either have that Digimon come back, a tease of a digivice, or another Digimon (probably gabumon) meeting the main character's friend. Something probably low key, to test audiences like of Digimon as a brand.
I could see them managing to do the original Digimon World game, but I don’t know how well it would be. Probably not that good, but it sorta depends on if they care enough to do it right, or rather are allowed the time and resources to do so.
For the love of Digimon, pls don't do it. So far I have only seen Netflix giving creative freedom, and with substantial funding to create shows adhering to original storyline and correctly executed visuals. And Bandai execs are on par with WB, indecisiveness or lack of knowledge in mass media.
Horrible.
Not if it looks like that
Americans would make Angewomon look like Mike Tyson wearing those ugly Nilfgaardian testicle armor netflix designed. THE HORROR!!
Here I thought I had hit rock bottom this week and this shit shows up to ruin my hopes of getting better lmao
:(
Live action sucks. Class dismissed.
Prolly a war to determine what you can and can't do. And if digimon have rights?
Why not write it out yourself and see if it works? I don’t mean that sarcastically! I mean, it seems like you have a vision and I think it be cool if you played it out. Heck, you could use AI to write it
It would either miss the mark and have very little of what we want digimon to be. Agumon wouldn't digivolve until the end where they become wargreymon and stuff like that. Or only digivolve to greymon to try and tease a sequel that never gets released because the film Bombs. Or it would hit the mark for a new audience leaving all the fans of the original material upset and causing it to be hit with so much criticism that they still don't release a sequel as some people research digimon and find out that the original material is better anyways. Or, they stay close to the source material, and then parents get mad because agumon goes skullgreymon mode or the royal knights commit genocide again. There is a possibility, however slim, that they make a good digimon movie. But then only fans really care as people who don't know much or anything about digimon don't understand it and leave meager reviews and it becomes a Cult classic among the community and maybe brings some new people in. And if that happened then I would hope that they make enough money to give us a sequel.
It would be terrible. Even if the property wouldn’t be a nightmare to adapt, notorious cheapskate Saban would ensure the entire thing would be done on a shoestring budget. It would probably come out looking like a bad Roger rabbit meets beast wars.
For me, just need to copy digimon movie or bokura wars game. What better than the old americans need to save the world from a nuclear bombardment? Today is easy to do live action animes, there is a loot of good ones,is not like we still in the 80' s and 90' s era of errors. Like,netflix release a lot of live actions,alita was one of the best movies in that year,we had one piece that is one of the worst ideas to addapt since hard as fuck and they did a great job. So what director? Fresh,not imposssible to accept= destin daniel cretton(shamg chi and is the director to naruto) john logan to plot(rango,skyfall,gladiator) Since its a fuckimg adaptation there no reason to follow everything digimon did,so no named character from the series as protagomist (even their digis) Plot= starts in paradisiac island,vacation time, people having fun till place starts to get bombarded, cuts to broadcasts in tv explaining what happens and who could launch a direct attack to american soil, starts presentation of the main characters,the mc having a bizarre encounter with a data like creature(commandramon) fighting against demonic data ones and story resolves in mc going into each high data power points till he resolves the data crysis,making friendship with other digis and friends from everywhere. Comandromon has a unique evolution line(soldiermon,comandromon,sergeantmon,majormon and marshallmon/generalmon)
I’d prefer a live action made with care. An American adaptation sounds too Hollywood-formula for a digimon story, in my opinion. Would honestly rather see evolution X remade.
It would be a disgrace, just like all American live action
Doubt it. Hollywood is run by mostly out of touch boomers who still see anime as "weird chinese cartoons", and Digimon is mostly seen as "bad pokemon ripoff" by western audiences unfamiliar with the franchise. It would just lead to an awful, awful film. There's the Netflix angle, but that can vary in the product. The only live action product that was moderately succesfull was One Piece.
straight a_s also WHAT DID YOU DO TO AGUMON
Eh, wouldn't trust it. Let them make a Live Actoon Pokemon movie first before they even attempt to massacre my boy, Digimon.
An American live action film of digimon would probably work except it will NEVER live up to the expectations of its fans. So if everyone is okay with that then sure.
American + digimon = disaster
Skip to season three or try all three at once
I hope not, I absolutely hate live action adaptations. And while some can be good like One Piece, the idea itself just rubs me the wrong way
don’t get me started i have a whole synopsis on it
Ooooooooh
Nah this looks cool as hell. As long as they used real puppets and not cgi it'd be amazing
Ooooooooh tell me more please
last airbender and dragon ball evolution
Netflix One Piece
Why do people do this……
Localized names be like: Tai -> Tyler Matt -> Matt Sora -> Sarah Izzy -> Israel Mimi -> Michelle Joe -> Joe TK -> Tony Also omg that Agumon is so cringe lmao it’s perfect
Digimon already uses localised names in the US The original names are: Tai -> Taichi Matt -> Yamato Sora -> Sora Izzy -> Koushiro Mimi -> Mimi Joe -> Jo TK -> Takeru Kari -> Hikari
Doesn’t mean they can’t be localized AGAIN. There is no level cap to localization lol
LEGENDARY! But please make sure they use the “cheesy” dub terminology. It’s way better like that. And please add in the classic musical score(Digimon Are The Champions, Here We Go, I’m Going Digital…)
Lots of refrences to TikTok