Characters: Step 1:Get the main characters from the Anime/Cartoon or Manga/Comic depending on which of the two stories you like best (since they both have different story lines). Step 2: Change their background, personality or just anything about them around a bit to suit your personal preferences: Say the main characters are around 15 years old but that doesn't suit you, just make them 19 Y.O.; if that affects the main story, just change/omit bits of the story (since this is an action movie, and you are just doing a portion of the Anime/Manga, the consequences of changing some of the story basics won't be shown or noticed). Step 3: If you see characters from the Anime/Manga you like but aren't meant to appear in the portion of the original story you have selected for the movie, change the story around so you can incorporate them. Again, feel free to carry out Step 2 with them. Step 4: Change how they affect the main story. You can substitute what happens to one character by something similar to what happens to one of the other characters. Example: Kishimoto puts on the black suit first, then is the first (with the suit) to attack the alien; which is what Kurono was meant to do. Step 5: With the Aliens: Select the ones you like and which go with your selected story, copy their best image and main skill and just alter the rest (size, other skills, number, personality, etc.). Repeat Step 4 with the Aliens.
Location: Try to select locations similar to those from the original source, and change locations where the story was changed. If you can't find one of the bigger locations, find a group of small ones that contain the same elements as the big one; of course, you don't need to use them the same way they're used in the original source, just make sure to show them sometime so fans of the original source can say "Hey, that's where that thing happens/ed/is supposed to happen!". Also remember we edited the story previously and have a max. movie length and budget. So, for example, we won't be needing a wooden house which comes crashing down, since we removed that scene along with all new characters it involved and made the movie 20 mins. shorter that way, even if that eliminates half of what happens in the scene from the original source.
Objects and the like: Select the iconic objects from your original source. Since the rest of the movie isn't looking too good, spend a lot to make them look as cool as possible. That way even if viewers don't like the rest of the movie, they will still remember it for the cool objects it had.
So to summarize what i thought of the Gantz Live-Action Movie: This is not a Gantz Live-Action Movie, this is a Gantz loosely-parallel-universe Live-Action Movie. They took the original names and general looks of the characters from the Anime/Manga, shortening the number of characters by at least 75%. They took the cool Sci-Fi stuff like the suits and weapons. A few of the locations from the original story. A few of the key moments from the story, rearranging them in the order they wanted. Then they just filled in the gaps; sometimes with other stuff from the original but not connected to that event/character/etc., others just inventing it themselves even if they are complete opposites from what appears in the original. Worst thing is they could have made MOST of it the same if they had decided to concentrate on a smaller portion of the original story. Instead they chose almost a third of the story from this 11 year old Manga for the first movie, and i'm guessing another third for the second. I must say i am a great fan of Gantz and Japanese stuff in general, and the longer i watched the harder it was to not close my eyes and block my hearing with my hands.
Now, for those who don't really care about the "Gantz" bit, the movie itself isn't good either. Acting in most cases seems fake or exaggerated (a feeling i'm sure was accentuated by the English voices). The pacing of the movie could have been greatly improved. The personality of some of the characters seems to change to the opposite quite easily. Some of the action scenes seem surprisingly dull. Etc.
Unless you happen to be a Gantz fan, a special-effects and/or cool-stuff-in-general fan, or are just very bored this movie is not worth watching. I would have given it a 2 or a 3, but i'm guessing the original Japanese voices would be much better than the English dubbing i HAD to hear, and be worth an increase to a 4.
Location: Try to select locations similar to those from the original source, and change locations where the story was changed. If you can't find one of the bigger locations, find a group of small ones that contain the same elements as the big one; of course, you don't need to use them the same way they're used in the original source, just make sure to show them sometime so fans of the original source can say "Hey, that's where that thing happens/ed/is supposed to happen!". Also remember we edited the story previously and have a max. movie length and budget. So, for example, we won't be needing a wooden house which comes crashing down, since we removed that scene along with all new characters it involved and made the movie 20 mins. shorter that way, even if that eliminates half of what happens in the scene from the original source.
Objects and the like: Select the iconic objects from your original source. Since the rest of the movie isn't looking too good, spend a lot to make them look as cool as possible. That way even if viewers don't like the rest of the movie, they will still remember it for the cool objects it had.
So to summarize what i thought of the Gantz Live-Action Movie: This is not a Gantz Live-Action Movie, this is a Gantz loosely-parallel-universe Live-Action Movie. They took the original names and general looks of the characters from the Anime/Manga, shortening the number of characters by at least 75%. They took the cool Sci-Fi stuff like the suits and weapons. A few of the locations from the original story. A few of the key moments from the story, rearranging them in the order they wanted. Then they just filled in the gaps; sometimes with other stuff from the original but not connected to that event/character/etc., others just inventing it themselves even if they are complete opposites from what appears in the original. Worst thing is they could have made MOST of it the same if they had decided to concentrate on a smaller portion of the original story. Instead they chose almost a third of the story from this 11 year old Manga for the first movie, and i'm guessing another third for the second. I must say i am a great fan of Gantz and Japanese stuff in general, and the longer i watched the harder it was to not close my eyes and block my hearing with my hands.
Now, for those who don't really care about the "Gantz" bit, the movie itself isn't good either. Acting in most cases seems fake or exaggerated (a feeling i'm sure was accentuated by the English voices). The pacing of the movie could have been greatly improved. The personality of some of the characters seems to change to the opposite quite easily. Some of the action scenes seem surprisingly dull. Etc.
Unless you happen to be a Gantz fan, a special-effects and/or cool-stuff-in-general fan, or are just very bored this movie is not worth watching. I would have given it a 2 or a 3, but i'm guessing the original Japanese voices would be much better than the English dubbing i HAD to hear, and be worth an increase to a 4.