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NEWS: Star Trek's Karl Urban to Play Villain in Priest Film




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darcerin



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:01 am Reply with quote
Oh snap, they got Karl Urban. I might have to see this just for him.
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miji



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:11 am Reply with quote
They seem to be gathering together a nice cast here, but the descriptions of the manwa and script sound absolutely nothing alike. I mean, what's the point of saying it is an adaptation of the manwa when it has nothing to do with it?
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John Casey



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:13 pm Reply with quote
Even though Karl Urban was amazing as Bones...he was also in Chronicles of Riddick. =_=

And did a crap job there... Can't blame him though, given what he had to work with...
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Big Hed



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:19 pm Reply with quote
Karl Urban was in The Bourne Supremacy? I don't remember that at all.

I agree though, sounds like an interesting cast is coming together.
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vashfanatic



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:45 pm Reply with quote
So Tokyopop, when is this series getting finished? There hasn't been a new volume in over two years. Has the author quit it, or are you just not releasing it?
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Great Rumbler



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:16 pm Reply with quote
Whenever I see that teaser image, I think "Peter Weller", which would be pretty cool.
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darcerin



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:34 pm Reply with quote
I tend to think that if an actor is AMAZING in one movie, but sucks in another, that's it's the director's fault. But that's just me. Smile
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CCSYueh



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:06 pm Reply with quote
John Casey wrote:
Even though Karl Urban was amazing as Bones...he was also in Chronicles of Riddick. =_=

And did a crap job there... Can't blame him though, given what he had to work with...


He ws excellent in Xena as Cupid & as Caesar
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LondinCalling



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:47 am Reply with quote
As a priest fan this is annoying and only drives the stake deeper (no pun intended) into our hearts.

The fact that Tokyopop is so cordial in their marketing, is insulting. They should be apologizing to us every step of the way.
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Pedestrian A



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:22 pm Reply with quote
vashfanatic wrote:
So Tokyopop, when is this series getting finished? There hasn't been a new volume in over two years. Has the author quit it, or are you just not releasing it?


The most recent volume in Korea, Vol 16, was released on Jan 27 of 2006. From what I know, it is on hiatus...
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:40 pm Reply with quote
Big Hed wrote:
Karl Urban was in The Bourne Supremacy? I don't remember that at all.

I agree though, sounds like an interesting cast is coming together.


Yes he was, he was the Russian assassin who framed Bourne and killed spoiler[Marie] near the beginning and then showed up later to go after Bourne in Moscow.
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Ktimene's Lover



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:30 pm Reply with quote
I wish Hollywood would leave live adaptations of anime/Asian comics to Asia. Just look at what they did with Dragonball: Evolution. The Asians can do it better.
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Xanas



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:43 pm Reply with quote
I disagree. Hollywood does a great job if the right people are chosen for the job. Dragonball Evolution was a failure for a lot of reasons, but Hollywood itself wasn't the problem.

Aside from that, Asia had it's own really bad Dragonball adaptations. I think Dragonball was hard material to do right and they got a group of people with divergent opinions on how to handle it.
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vashfanatic



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:25 pm Reply with quote
Ctimene's Lover wrote:
I wish Hollywood would leave live adaptations of anime/Asian comics to Asia. Just look at what they did with Dragonball: Evolution. The Asians can do it better.


...except that this is set in the American west in the 1800s, they'd need an all-English speaking cast anyway to do it right. There's no cultural transition here, it should have white people. And a couple of African Americans and Native Americans too.

Sucks that this is on hiatus! I want to finish this series, buying 16 volumes to have it not end would be... well, at least with X we got a great anime. Maybe the movie will give it a satisfactory end?
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