Who is the dumbass that approved 47 ronin's 170+ million dollar budget? :laff:

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Movie was in production hell and all that special effects and cgi shyt was added late into production...The movie was originally supposed to me more "grounded".
 
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Interesting. From reddit:

I had the pleasure of working on this flick.

The thing was, Keanu was NOT the star of the first cut of the movie. And it was AWESOME. Which is what that article leaves out or doesn't know. He didn't set out to make the pos movie that it is now.

The first cut of the movie, barely had Reeves in it and focused entirely on Oishi, Hiroyuki Sanada's character. Keeanu kind of just showed up. The studio was not only mad but confused on how they were going to sell tickets if their star wasn't the star.

So they fired Carl, brought in a huge editor (who doesn't even want his name on the movie and is a major fukking douchebag) and did a bunch of reshoots, to "fix" the movie. And now, it is what it is. RIPD 47 Ronin.

Oh yeah. That guy covered in tats, in the movie for about 2 seconds. At least in the last cut I saw. And he's on the posters? What?

Edit: Holy shyt. I expected my comment to get buried. Trust me. I have better things to do then to lie about working on this craptastic movie. The productions original intent with Keanus character was to bring in an audience and have a strong support for Hiroyuki's character. But the higher ups at Universal didn't like the fact they paid all this money for Reeves, who probably had about fifteen minutes of screen time, and couldn't let it all ride on "Oishi". Which was too bad. Because, at least I thought, they had a really cool movie. I doubt that first cut will ever see the light of day. Unless somehow, Carl is able to buy all the footage and let his own cut out. (which won't happen. Ever.) It's a real "BRAZIL" situation here. But we'll just never get to see the directors true version/vision.
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This movie was in production around the same time Universal also greenlit RZA's The Man With The Iron Fists. Apparently someone at Universal had a lot of confidence in the Asian mythology market, and that someone is now living in a cardboard box contemplating his life choices.
 
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Looks dope tho. It could be terrible but im still going to check it out. Remember when there would be nothing but certified piff in the theaters? I would stay for 3-4 movies in a day! And i had this girl who bout it when i got into my late teens, shorty would be down to stay up in the theatre and enjoy the ride
 
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detroitwalt said:
Is that big? I've never heard of either one. Anime?
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Lupin III is the most popular thief character in anime history and Detective Conan is one of the most popular detective characters in anime history. The author might belittle the movie because of the title but if he did his research he'd know a cross-over movie between the two is a big deal in Japan.
 
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Rekkapryde said:
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