How the hell has a Code Geass movie not been optioned by American studios?!

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Recently, I've been finishing up on watching the second season of Code Geass and I had a thought: How has this not been made into a movie?

It has everything a studio could want!

Giant robots! War scenes! High school! Shower scenes! Pretty white people! A mask avenger! Japan!

This show is crying out for a major studio to grab it. For once they could cast a white guy in the lead without pissing off legions of fans! As long as they had a good writing team and real innovators behind it (Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp being the dream team) their film would not fail.

Is there anything about the show that you guys think would/wouldn't lend itself to a film adaptation? Also, feel free to just talk about the awesomeness of the show if you want.

[Kim]

You can't convert CLAMP into live action without inspiring generations to become anorexics. Also, Geass is just the wrong kind of goddamn ridiculous for American cinema.

[Shin Amakiir]

This is a bad idea: Look what happened to Dragon Ball.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I could see them turning it into a soap opera simply making a live action version of the show. Come on, you know it's gold. You can have everyone watch the same episodes again only with real actors and cheap special effects.

[Aerozord]

How has this not been made into a movie?

because there is a god

[PyrosNine]

What the crap would the movie be about? How do you fit the nuances of intrigue, xanatos gambits, and conflicting alliances with giant robot battles in the course of a 1:30 film? What kind of actor could pull off being both a magnificent bastard and an insufferable jerkass epic fail guy at the same time?

Could be turned into an Opera though.

Lelouch: "I'm serious. If I order you to kill me, shoot Suzaku, or even if I tell you to kill all the Japanese, you will follow me with no hesitation."

Euphemia: "Must kill all Japanese in the name of Britannia."

Lelouch: "Oh SHIIIIiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"

Applause, curtains close.

Next scene is a duet between Euphemia, Lelouch, and Choir, as Euphemia struggles to resist the Geass, Lelouch attempts to encourage her to resist, and the Choir gets shot, called "Genocide, first love, and a standing audience" in G Minor.

[bluestarultor]

I could see them turning it into a soap opera simply making a live action version of the show. Come on, you know it's gold. You can have everyone watch the same episodes again only with real actors and cheap special effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyy_MaJC04

No. Just no.

[Bells]

When has Hollywood ever given the Giant Robot genre a proper treatment?

I won't even post you a link, just google G Saviour to see what Hollywood thinks a GUNDAM is... and this is coming from a guy who calls that Dragonball movie a "plausible fun afternoon experience" or "Acceptable crap" for short.

There is a reason why most Animes become Long Feature animated movies in Japan, it's the only way to keep shit together and even then most Anime movies don't fit the Chronology of the anime itself or are just compilations of the damn show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyy_MaJC04

Blues, 3 seconds into that i see a Phallus being sliced in half... what the hell!?

[bluestarultor]

Blues, 3 seconds into that i see a Phallus being sliced in half... what the hell!?

Freud would have a field day with you. That's a vegetable.

Edit: Specifically a daikon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon

[Fifthfiend]

An American studio would tell the entire story from the perspective of Suzaku.

Shit I wouldn't even blame them for it.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

An American studio would tell the entire story from the perspective of Suzaku.

Shit I wouldn't even blame them for it.

Not revealing that Lelouch is Zero until the end of season one could have made for a really interesting plot now that I think about it.

[Fifthfiend]

It could've been interesting but it definitely would have been a much more traditional story, because once you start telling the story from that POV it basically becomes "teenager is the only dude who can pilot the experimental superrobot needed to defeat the evil guy with mysterious mind-control powers." The whole thing of CG is it basically takes the standard Robot Anime setup and makes the villain the hero.

Which is why it doesn't work as a movie, because then you're doing a deconstructionist take on a genre when most of the prospective audience has at best a passing familiarity with the genre being deconstructed. Which I mean, maaaaaaybe that could work, but I don't think anyone dropping the money it'd take to make an AAA production value Super Robots movie would want to chance it.

And if they were gonna go that road, they'd just make Evangelion or something.

[MuMu]

The American movie would be from Pizza Hut's perspective

But really, you can't you cram all of Code Geass' SERIOUS BUSINESS and dressing up boys as cats in 2 hours. And it just isn't CG without all the incredible mood whiplash.

[Magus]

Don't worry they will get around to it and it will star Zac Efron, or whatever teenage boy is popular right now.

Actually judging by the art style Justin Bieber would be a shoo-in.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I really think this would work. It wouldn't be hard to condense the show's plot. You could have the first half hour be set-up in which we get what amounts to the first two or three episode of the series, followed by Leouche coming up with a master plan while doing all the high school B.S. with Suzaku, and culminating in the Black Rebellion for all of act three. I could get into specifics but I think that would be a little much. The point is, it could work really well.

And about people not wanting a story about a masked villain destabilizing a country, did you see V for Vendetta? There's a market for it.

[stefan]

I won't even post you a link, just google G Saviour to see what Hollywood thinks a GUNDAM is...

G saviour was Canada's fault, actually.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

FINALLY finished watching R2. My opinion has changed entirely. A movie could never happen because that ending would fly right over the mainstream movie goer's head.

[MuMu]

Wait, you suggested movie without watching R2 first? You didn't consider how RocketEmperor would be on CGI? Or how they would build a real pizza-making mecha? The Ebay sale of Lelouch's glorious hat?

What the hell, man

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Wait, you suggested movie without watching R2 first? You didn't consider how RocketEmperor would be on CGI? Or how they would build a real pizza-making mecha? The Ebay sale of Lelouch's glorious hat?

What the hell, man

I had six episodes left when I made this thread. Those turned out to be a very eventful six episodes.

[CABAL49]

I got to say, R2 was very slow till you get to the end. Then you're like OMFGASDOSADNSAD!