The OFFICIAL Great Outdoor Fight Movie Thread

[Toaster]

It had to be done, sooner or later. Chris says that in the movie version, the cats and ASAs will be played by humans. Let's discuss this. Let's discuss casting. Let's discuss whatever we deem to be relevant.

I'm concerned with how much will be lost in translation from cartoon cats to live-action humans, particularly the violence. A cartoon cat ripping another cartoon cat's face off is funny, but with humans it suddenly becomes horrifying. Will audiences lose sympathy with Ray after he starts fighting? It's about suspension of disbelief, I suppose.

[Doc]

Nah, I think at least for the early take downs they'll be played for laughs with over the top gore familiar to B horror film affectionadoes.  Am I right that Samuel L Jackson should play Ramses or is he a bit too obvious these days?

[miles]

I'd just like to hear Samuel L Jackson's agent pitch the idea to him. But then again, he was in Snakes on a Plane, and I read an interview published around that time where he said he'd act in just about any movie so long as he thought it would be commercially successful.

I'm also worried about the potential shift from talking cats and alive stuff animals to humans.

[wombat]

I'm reminding myself of all the times people were saying this and that about how some story line was going badly and I said something along the lines of "o ye of little faith" and then I was proved right when some brilliant Achewoodian thing transpired.

I'm reminding myself of this because a live action human Achewood movie seems to me like a perfectly awful idea and I can only hope that this is my small, limited vision talking, and that it will be wonderful in ways I cannot forsee. 

[Victoria Waterfield]

I can live with a live-action GOF movie with humans playing the cats, but only if the alt-text appears as subtitles.

[Doc]

How about director's commentary? 'This scene rests heavily on the gossipy hotdog vender archetype'.

[JorgeFabregas]

I don't think it will ever happen--just like the achewood video game (?!).

[littlefallsmets]

I, too, fear that the cat-on-cat violence would take on an entirely different tone than in the strip with people-on-people.

A Bruce Campbell-esque kitschiness that would be interesting but not at all what was intended in the strip.

I would almost go the other direction and make the characters as much like cats and teddy bears as possible, even moreso than the strip.

Just anthropomorphized enough for them to be walking upright and such.

[Toaster]

Doc, you're right about the over-the-top factor, I hadn't even considered that. That is definitely a way that it could, and probably will, go. And it would work.

And Todd's last name is "Squirrel". How are they going to square that? Maybe he could just be a little human drug addict whose nickname was "Todd the Squirrel".

[littlefallsmets]

By the by, I would want the Achewood game to somehow be in the mold of the early Nintendo 8-bit console-RPGs.

Dragon Warrior 3 sorta deal.

Have no idea how that'd work, of course, but there we are.

[Choop]

The Great Outdoor Fight

Directed by Guy Ritchie
Starring Brad Pitt, Gerard Butler, Sam Jackson
Featuring R. Lee Ermey as Hot Dog Vendor
And Christopher Walken as Ramses
Original Story by Christ Opher Onstad
Screenplay by Uwe Bold Charlie Kaufman


The characters are not related to Achewood in any manner. The concept is not related to Achewood in any manner. The names Ray and Roast Beef have nothing to do with the Achewood Universe. This is a concept originated in Achewood and transported out therefrom.

Rated NC-17.

[Doc]

The characters are not related to Achewood in any manner. The concept is not related to Achewood in any manner. The names Ray and Roast Beef have nothing to do with the Achewood Universe. This is a concept originated in Achewood and transported out therefrom.

Sounds thoroughly realistic of the hollywood process. Though I'd dig on Steve Buschemi as Beef rather than (I'm presuming) Brad Pitt. Also Eddy Izzard as Barry the Blogger (but he'd be replaced halfway through shooting by Simon Pegg when they decided they needed to skew to a younger demographic).

[theinevitable]

where are we getting the idea that this is happening? am i missing a link somewhere?

[Toaster]

He mentions it in the talk he gave at Google, which is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZOSZZTIiE&feature=channel_page

Also he mentions it again in today's AssetBar Q&A. Both times he pretty explicitly says that the GOF film will feature live action humans playing the roles.

[wombat]

Sounds thoroughly realistic of the hollywood process.

But actually maybe it's a good idea.  The only good outcome I can imagine is making something entirely new out of the concept, instead of a bad translation into another medium.