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.
Tetsujin 28: The Touching Story of a Boy and His Robot
August 31st, 2004 -- Written by Rodney
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yep : cool. teased.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for the site, good read! Keep up the good work!
Tetsujin 28 movie was premiered on 16 of October 2004 at Tokyofanta Festival. It seems it was totally successful. (people crying and so on).