August 31, 2004
Tetsujin 28: The Touching Story of a Boy and His Robot
A while back Brad Bird created what has belatedly been recognized as a masterpiece of American animation in The Iron Giant. What a lot of people don't realize is that The Iron Giant owes a lot of its major plot points to a little known - well, outside of Japan, anyway - anime show called Tetsujin 28. You guessed it, Tetsujin's the story of a boy and his robot and it is now being made into a live action feature. Check out the website here and give the trailer a gander ... it's just a short teaser, but you may hereby consider me teased.
Posted by John Campea at August 31, 2004 10:52 PM
Comments
Posted by: logboy at September 1, 2004 04:28 AM
I cannot for the life of me remember what it was entitled, or who wrote it, but I swear I read a kids book in the late 80's that was the exact same story as Iron Giant.
Posted by: Scott at September 1, 2004 04:55 AM
hopefully it'll be low on CGI, like The Iron Giant was low on sfx. I really liked Brad Birds movie so very curious how this works out.
Posted by: venger at September 1, 2004 10:49 AM
The "Iron Giant" was somewhat based on the "Iron Man", a kids book written by the famous or infamous poet Ted Hughes in the 1960s (since republished as "The Iron Giant"). The plot differs a bit but the message is the same. There's an animated music video for an old Pete Townsend song ("a friend is a friend" or something like that) which is also based on the imagery of the book and is worth a look.
Posted by: Kerry at September 2, 2004 04:21 AM
that looks sweet so far.
good tease.
not conviced until i see the cgi though.
i always remeber the godzilla trailer with only the eye.
Posted by: thesecretsafe at September 3, 2004 07:52 AM
Thanks for the site, good read! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: christmas gift ideas at September 11, 2004 10:24 AM
Tetsujin 28 movie was premiered on 16 of October 2004 at Tokyofanta Festival. It seems it was totally successful. (people crying and so on).
Posted by: Chris at October 21, 2004 02:40 AM
yep : cool. teased.