Monster - HBO Guillermo Del Toro series

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http://tv.yahoo.com/news/guillermo-d...222409266.html

EXCLUSIVE: HBO and Guillermo del Toro are teaming on Monster, developing a potential series culled from a series of 18 volumes of Japanese Manga by author Naoki Urasawa published by Shogakukan Inc. Del Toro will co-write the story with Steven Thompson, best known for his work on Dr. Who and Sherlock. Thompson will write the pilot, which del Toro intends to direct. The thriller is about the worldwide search by a young doctor for the most evil sociopath that has ever lived. He is a 12-year-old boy, and the doctor?s decision to save his life has unwittingly unleashed a Pandora?s Box that leaves the doc battling to stop a plot of mass genocide. This is certainly a departure for HBO, entering the Manga game, but for del Toro and Thompson, it allows them an incredible sandbox to play in. Del Toro will be executive producer and Thompson co-executive producer, with Angry Films? partners Don Murphy and Susan Montford executive producing with Exile?s Gary Ungar. Shogakukan will be consulting producer.
This project was originally set at New Line, but proved too sprawling to confined to a feature film. It took del Toro a long time to woo creator Urasawa into being comfortable with Hollywood again, which sounds a lot like the process that D.B. Weiss and David Benioff went through with George R.R. Martin before they could get Game Of Thrones off the ground at HBO.


No clue what the source is about or anything, but lately for me, HBO series have been pretty damn good. Look forward to any new series on HBO.
 
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I'm not big fan of anime, but I watched the Monster series back when Syfy still ran anime. It was surprisingly good, if not slightly slow and melodramatic. Both HBO and del Toro are fairly reputable, so I would be surprised if they screw this up. That said, I'm not quite sure how HBO will fit in 2-8 pairs of boobs each episode, but I'm interested to see what they come up with for a solution.
 
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I didn't finish watching this show, but what I did watch, seems like it could translate to live action very easily. excited
 
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Urasawa's Monster is, without a doubt, a masterpiece. It's also entirely set in central Europe and this context is a core tenet of the story as it is about the dark remnants of WWII and of the pact of Warsaw in modern days. That seems like a tough pitch for an american TV show, but trying to transpose the story in the US would be an exercise in futility. What they might end up doing is just replacing the main character, a japanese doctor working in germany, with an american doctor. An easy change as, as far as I can remember, the nationality of the doctor is solely used to help the reader's identification and having him be a stranger that needs to be explained things.

For what I saw, the anime was a panel to shot adaptation, but I suspect it's possible to prune some of the many side stories. That said, because of the pre-publication system, many manga are longer than they should be, but Monster manages to keep a great density despite some of the digressions, so pruning will inevitably remove branches that bear fruits.
 
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