Yeah, I stan for Hiroyuki Sanada--The Twilight Samurai is incredible--but we could use some new Japanese faces.
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Deadline: Chadwick Boseman To Play African Samurai ‘Yasuke’
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They been trying to get a movie made about this dude for soooo many years.
I'll believe it when I see it.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Boseman: The Movie
starring Chawick Boseman
directed by Chawick Boseman
Written by Chawick Boseman
Special thanks to Chawick Boseman.........
and Hideo Kojima
OP
OP
Let's go!
I love you both.
I mean, it could also be Tadanobu Asano...
Lmao Asano straight up looks like the Koei rendition
They're gonna butcher the 20 lines in Japanese they even bother to speak lol.
Can't be worse than Jared Leto stumbling through it as Gokudo while he can't even enunciate.
I'd be more interested if a director was attached. Kinda strange announcement.
Unless it has a Samurai vs Ninjas scene, doubtful!
Unless it has a Samurai vs Ninjas scene, doubtful!
Beat Takeshi as violent racist advisor to Nobunaga who is slowly won around by Chadwick's effort and ability please.
Actually, let's whitewash the whole thing and bring in gun-running Freemason Scotsman Thomas Glover, who founded Mitsubishi and Kirin Brewing and is rumored to have inspired the mustachioed monster on the Kirin bottles - and was awarded the order of the Rising Sun. If Sean Connery is too old, then let's go with Gerard Butler.
Actually, let's whitewash the whole thing and bring in gun-running Freemason Scotsman Thomas Glover, who founded Mitsubishi and Kirin Brewing and is rumored to have inspired the mustachioed monster on the Kirin bottles - and was awarded the order of the Rising Sun. If Sean Connery is too old, then let's go with Gerard Butler.
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More Hollywood movies about the Sengoku era? Yes please.
Secondly, Yasuke did participate in the Tenmokuzan campaign and was right there with Ranmaru protecting Nobunaga at Honnōji. While not as impressive as, say, Nagashino, Tenmokuzan was the last stand of the Takeda and had a number of skirmishes that'd make for good film. And a final battle at Honnōji? Pretty neat. I also came across a book that actually takes the rumors of Yasuke then serving as a gunner in Kyushu for the ... Ōtomo, I think? And uses that to further his life story. But if the movie is about him and Nobunaga, it'll probably end with Honnōji.
Thirdly... Movies about a ruler's or warrior's entire life if they're super duper accomplished don't really work. There's a reason movies like Elizabeth, Kagemusha, Heaven and Earth, and the like focus short periods of time, never more than ten and usually closer to five, with only prologues or epilogues stretching further. We've also already had numerous Honnōji movies that focus on Mitsuhide or Nobunaga. Japanese, not Hollywood, sure, but they're still there and worth watching. We've none from the perspective of those lower on the food chain, let alone Yasuke. So this'll be a fresher perspective. Plus, the time frame just fits perfectly for a movie- 78-82.
And if this movie is successful enough, hey, we may yet see more Hollywood samurai movies that don't arbitrarily shove in a fictional white dude as the MC. I'd love to see a Hollywood-sized-budget movie about Uesugi Kenshin's campaign against either Shingen or Nobunaga, or a movie about the Genpei War focused on Yoshitsune.
I disagree. First, dramas can easily involve little to no action. A movie about Yasuke and Nobunaga's relationship, even if fictionalized somewhat, could be pretty interesting, even without a big battle.
Secondly, Yasuke did participate in the Tenmokuzan campaign and was right there with Ranmaru protecting Nobunaga at Honnōji. While not as impressive as, say, Nagashino, Tenmokuzan was the last stand of the Takeda and had a number of skirmishes that'd make for good film. And a final battle at Honnōji? Pretty neat. I also came across a book that actually takes the rumors of Yasuke then serving as a gunner in Kyushu for the ... Ōtomo, I think? And uses that to further his life story. But if the movie is about him and Nobunaga, it'll probably end with Honnōji.
Thirdly... Movies about a ruler's or warrior's entire life if they're super duper accomplished don't really work. There's a reason movies like Elizabeth, Kagemusha, Heaven and Earth, and the like focus short periods of time, never more than ten and usually closer to five, with only prologues or epilogues stretching further. We've also already had numerous Honnōji movies that focus on Mitsuhide or Nobunaga. Japanese, not Hollywood, sure, but they're still there and worth watching. We've none from the perspective of those lower on the food chain, let alone Yasuke. So this'll be a fresher perspective. Plus, the time frame just fits perfectly for a movie- 78-82.
And if this movie is successful enough, hey, we may yet see more Hollywood samurai movies that don't arbitrarily shove in a fictional white dude as the MC. I'd love to see a Hollywood-sized-budget movie about Uesugi Kenshin's campaign against either Shingen or Nobunaga, or a movie about the Genpei War focused on Yoshitsune.
I'm pretty much anti-biopic in general unless it's a small movie. Honestly the best route would be his relationship with Nobunaga. The writer doesn't give me any hope in this movie at all.
That would be the best way to approach this: Yasuke as the stand-in for the audience as an outsider and it being an exploration of Nobunaga and his personality and philosophies, with Yasuke as a character to bounce off of. But that would be if the movie was being made as a dramatic, Oscar-caliber picture, this will most likely be a corny action movie with cliched drama.
