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Holy Empire of FOX conquers deal for Code Geass live-action film!


12:01 AM on 04.01.2009
Holy Empire of FOX conquers deal for Code Geass live-action film! photo





I really wasn’t expecting this at all, but this (might) be great news. Fox acquires the feature film rights for the hugely successful Japanese anime property Code Geass. If that wasn’t good enough, Fox confirmed that this film will be two films in total; one for each season, I suppose. Fox was so high on acquiring the material that Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Nikolai Delphiki flew to Japan about a month ago to meet with Ichirō Ōkouchi and the property's publisher, Sunrise, to confirm the studio's commitment to the project and hammer out some of the details. One of these details they hammered out was casting; they don’t have all the actors yet, but they did pick the one that counts.

Hugh Laurie will be playing the star role of Lelouch Lamperouge in both films. He seems a little old for this role, but I don’t think that is going to hamper his performance. Seriously, what other actor can bring out the intensity of Lelouch better than him? Other than Sean Connery.

The reason behind this acquisition was that last year, "Code Geass" was ranked as the year's top item of interest on Lycos searches, topping Britney Spears, Nintendo Wii and Osama bin Laden, and has become the most popular searched term in the history of the Lycos Top 50. That sounds great and all, but let’s hope Fox can pull this off. Maybe they will learn from the Dragon Ball movie and actually stick to the source material! Lelouch better not be a martial arts master, or I’ll have a rebellion of my own!





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....FOX.....I'm gonna get you back one of these days...I swear it.
Nite Owl:

NOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!

DO NOT WANT. AT ALL.

Bad enough Fox had DBE and Cowboy Bebop. Now this.

What next: Haruhi ?!!!

~

I don't hate live-action, but I find a lot of FOX adaptations abhorrent. SRSLY

Please tell me that this is some sick April Fool's Day joke?!
A Code Geass live-action by FOX?

Jokes can only go so far.
You guys are funny. :P
Edit: I think I meant some jokes go too far. ;]
I could've had a heart attack y'know?
Hugh Laurie as Lelouche ruined it. If you really wanted to make it believable you should have cast Zack Ephron as Lelouche, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Charles, and Christian Bale as Schneizel.
Hugh Laurie? Really?

Or if you really wanted to fool us you should have announced a fake cast for Leonardo Dicaprio's Akira adaptation. Tisk tisk.
Wow, so easy to tell this was a bad joke. FOX would ever make a movie based on anime. Anime is evil, and like video games..is a cause of murder in young people.
im calling my agent...
I hate you guys. I almost ALMOST almost forgot what day it was.
If this wasn't a joke it would totally be awesome.
So would he use his american accent or his regular tongue?
...It would depend on the rest of the cast. I guess it would be easier to find American actors. Looking at it he is just a decade or two too old. I mean how would they run our school episodes like that
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA hold on... let me get my breath... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
House + Mechs?.... where is the bad here people?
HOLY COW

Oh right, April Fool's Day. Well played, Japanator, I actually thought this could be real when I first read the headline.

@Kougeru
Just so you know when you happen to see a Dragonball Evolution commercial on TV today... they're not joking.
what a crock of shit.
Wow you guys are good.....

This is got to be THE greatest April fools joke ever!
Man, If i hadn't read the comments i would have gone and told everyone in my anime club that House is gonna play in an anime...

Simply amazing... Yup.. Ya got me =D
I was like "WTF mate!"

then I looked at the calender..

then I just fell dumb.....

and used...

so used >_
Lulz oh you
House is awesome.

That is all.
*facepalm~@#!$*
I may have just crawled out of bed, but I am all too aware what day it is.
I believe the difficulty would be in getting teen actor good enough to play a serious lead role.
haha geass topping wii?can't fool me..
You know guys,


f you.


I forgot and was calling a friend about this the moment I saw the headline... when suddenly. It hit me.

But it's hilarious :'D
Ahhhhh! You through me threw a loop because this was posted only an hour after becoming April in my time zone...nice one. I figured having Hugh Laurie as Lulu sounded a bit too strange...
This song is appropriate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNahO3iAVoM
If only this was true. :(
I fooled Heero Yuy, my job here is done
You know, I really want this film :O

*Retreats to corner*
I was so excited......I love House and Lelouche....and if they became one..../sigh
April Fools aside, I think a live-action Geass (with the right casting) could actually work as a TV series, and that FOX would love the hell out of it since it's about the OMG TERRORASMZ. Plus, inevitable wire-fighting by Suzaku.

But Hugh Laurie pushed the trolling too far. 8/10, Japanator.
Jesus Christ. I almost believed this until I read "Hugh Laurie will be playing the star role of Lelouch Lamperouge in both films."
lulz. House de Lamperouge FTW.
This is almost hilarious as the One Piece ch538 joke AP forums did.
almost got me sorry happy april fools all.:)
Almost as funny as the Type-Moon jokes yesterday.
what type moon jokes?
also, almost believed it til i saw no sauce. i woulda raged more if u ncluded a totally unsuitable CC ass
No one fools Phenyl!
HAHAHAHAH OH WOW
If this is a joke, it's bad Journalism, kinda like Cartoon Networks Adult Swim last night. WTF was that? Besides that, I'm glad I never watched CG nor House.
You got me...I forgot what today is.
@Catrophy: He's talking about this: http://www.typemoon.com/mooncinemas/index.html (it's full of Type Moon movies, some of them parodies like NekoArc Evolution and Crayon Shinji-chan, and some are hardcore TypeMoon fan jokes, such as a Recalled Out Summer movie)

Personally I thought the Kill Nero (Kill Bill) and Inufeito (sponsored by Unlimited Kennel Club) were pretty funny.
In regards to article photo, eeeee.
I laughed so frickin hard at this well played mate well played.
I forgot what today was right when I read this. Good one.
This story forced me out of lurkerdom. XDD
This is almost as good as gmail's Automail joke.
I fully support this movie. Eff yeah Hugh Laurie.
Wow. I don't even like this show. Perhaps I need to give it another chance.

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