Night Angel Trilogy Movie?

[Ashley A.]

I'm not sure if this was posted before hand, but I was curious: with technology these days, would it be better if N.A.T was done in Live Action or CG?

Personally, I think more could be accomplished with CG and it'd be a lot easier to just find the voice for the characters instead of finding someone who's semi-similar enough to pass.

What's your take on this?

[kevin shortt]

i was thinking this recently myself, however when it comes to the fight scenes i like to see real actors doing fight scenes as realistic as possible ,even with the technology today theres just something about cg fights that just doesn't cut it (imo)

[SpeichInYourLife]

For a live action movie I think we would have to see Crouching Tiger level stunts at a minimum...anything else would water down the brilliance. Weeks is one of the first writers I have found that doesn't pull many punches and lets the grime of reality show itself, I think a visually appealing movie with SinCity style dark under tones would be fun to watch!

Since the guy behind Twilight and Never Back Down has the first crack at an NA movie I'd say the first script would be very teen pleasing and dramatic, for better or worse.

[Ayademis]

I really like CTHD and also Sin City!!! I also like the film Perfume: the story of a Murderer, it has a very lively and colourful depiction of life with all its dark, gritty.bits. It would really need a good cast. Kylar played by a young actor who looks badazz and decent at the same time with a hint of mischief.I have no idea who could play Durzo and Jarl and Elene, but I'd like to see Catherine Deneuve play Momma K.

[bonfire]

argh isnt it scary. imagine trying to put a teen pleasing aspect on doll girls mutilation. or jarl's rape or half the real important sh*t that happens. the first half of the first book is the darkest part of the whole story and i agree it does have a certain SinCity quality. i think the best way for the movie to go would be a combination of live action and cgi. but it co0uldnt be all of one or the other. Stunts are way too extreme to do with real life and yet the characters are so real they couldnt be done cgi. anyway thats my thought.


stick to the shadows!

[Cjguy156]

I would seriously cry and send some anygry emails if the freakin pg this book, cause its not possible! If the guy makes it as bad as twilight was with effects and acting(which to me, was not the grea)t since kristen stewart (who might need to wake up) and robert patinson (and gay for my own reasons...

crap, ranting on twilight now..ahem...

still since its a movie, soon to be probably, I do think 'teen pleasing' is really it since I am a teen and fine with whatever it shows, barely a teen by the way, I mean you do picture these things as you read. Teens like the kind of things in the book too anyhow :P. The problem is if they try to make it "child" appropriate or even 'Like' "Twilight" would be bad in my opinion....

Cant really decide on which though...

[bonfire]

dude if only you knew, twilight was total crap compared to the book (which in my opinion was a crap series until the last book which kicked butt) and i get what you are saying about about bad acting an the rest. i finally figured out how to maintain the grittiness o the book book and some get some real killer effects to try and mtch the book. They really need te guys who did the cgi for transformers 1 & 2! now that would kick some serious booty! either that or the guys who did the fight scenes for the matrix lmao

[Ashley A.]

ah god I know >0< if they really did make it teen friendly the main plot'll just turn into some tragic love story with some action instead of some serious bad@$$ wetboy epic.

I just don't want to see Kylar going Night Angel on us and he looks like he came from some tween magazine centerfold :P (I mean I know he's supposed to be attractive but that'll go a little too far)

[McPancakes]

i would say a comic book, not a movie

[Ashley A.]

you just gave me a brilliant idea--- now to hone my drawing skills ^^;

[McPancakes]

haha i know what you mean

[DC]

Personally, I'd love to see this movie in live action, with cg added for the more intense fights (Durzo vs. Kylar, for instance) and magic, of course. I have no idea who they could get for any of the cast though, and I have to say that if it was anything less than "R" rated they wouldn't be able to do it right. Oh, and they should at least consult Mr. Weeks on the script. I would hate to see a Night Angel movie tank like what they did to Eragon and Stormbreaker.

[Sage Blackthorn]

Personally, I think a blend of Live Action and C.G. would be the way to go. I thought it worked well for the Blade series when used for showing the "superhuman" aspects. This could be applied to when the characters are using their Talent. But there just is really no substitute for live action when it comes to fight scenes. I wouldn't want to see "Crouching Tiger" style fight scenes though, with wire-harness type flying sequences. That is pretty much the hallmark of the Wuxia genre and I don't see the Night Angel Trilogy as falling into that category. Wuxia evolved from Peking Opera, so it's very sylized and graceful, and the fight scenes described in Brent's book strike me as much more brutal and viceral. A Wuxia fight is more like ballet set to Tchiakovsky. Brent's describing something that reminds me more of a fight scene out of The Matrix (which means that getting the Wachowsky Brothers involved would be a good idea for a movie.) Maybe, Wuxia with a western street fight flare to it would be a good mix? I don't know who choeographed the fights for Tomb Raider, but I do remember the Behind The Scenes documentary where they talked about Lara Croft's fighting style being a mix of martial arts and street fighting. It worked for the character and that is the secret to any good fight scene in a movie: matching the combat style to the character, personalizing it, making it an extention of that character.