User blog comment:Blu3 Fir3 - V2.0/RWBY Live Action Movie? Thoughts?/@comment-9464517-20160429235534

The problem with a live-action RWBY movie would be the need to balance the quiet, sensitive scenes with the scenes of balls-to-the-wall action. The best example of a director in Hollywood who can manage both is Ang Lee. He has incredible range, making smaller-budgeted romance movies like Brokeback Mountain and Sense & Sensibility as well as one of the finest action films in decades: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Of course, given the failure of Hulk, he might be unwilling to work on another over-the-top studio project for a while.

The alternative would be to ditch most of the story altogether and just focus on the action, hiring someone like Johnnie To or Gareth Evans to handle the direction.

Rating? In a perfect world, a hard R, but given the influence of Aura, I reckon it could get away with PG-13.

As for actors... Eh, I dunno. Maybe someone like John Hurt as Ozpin. Liev Schreiber would make a decent Ironwood. Lucy Liu or Michelle Yeoh could work as Cinder. Alan Ritchson would be ideal for Cardin, and they could cast young up-and-comers like Finn Wittrock, Tony Revolori and Tessa Thompson as some of the other students. The cast list posted by DemonicsFire suggests Jennifer Lawrence as Yang and Saoirse Ronan as Weiss, both of whom could be really good.