Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33053086-20171112011138/@comment-14138255-20171113052931

The shift from other to live action is difficult regardless. Most of the anime I've seen (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Berserk, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, etc.) could make it with the right vision and effort, others cannot.

For Madoka Magica, I'd rather just commence a marketing blitz, hire actresses that could give interviews and appear in trailers, talk about shit on twitter, keep the entire set locked down and pay people off to keep quiet about it...and then when people enter the theater they'll end up watching the anime recut into three movies. It's the perfect crime.

(Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is a weird case of live action to anime, except it has such a realistic artstyle it might as well have been rotoscoped).

RWBY, sadly, cannot make it as a live-action film. The story, while interesting to follow, is a complete mess, and consolidating it into a film will be a disaster. V1-V3 could be interesting, but they'd have to do a fair bit to account for the plot threads that go nowhere.