Astro Boy

[Space Pirate Roberts]

This was previously mentioned in the Gatchaman thread, but now that there's info beyond just a teaser poster, I figure it's time for it to have its own.

Nic Cage Lends His Pipes To ‘Astro Boy’
Posted by Cybergosh on 06/23 at 05:08 PM



Imagi has announced that Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy and Eugene Levy would be joining Freddie Highmore for the 2009 feature adaptation of Astro Boy, being directed by Flushed Away’s David Bowers.

Summit Entertainment will distribute the film worldwide except for Imagi’s reserved territories of Japan, Hong Kong and China. Astro Boy was created by the “god of manga”, Japan’s Osamu Tezuka, in the early 1950s. The iconic character has since found wide popularity around the world as the hero of three acclaimed animated television series spanning the past four decades, besides being one of the top licensed properties for merchandising.

Set in futuristic Metro City, Imagi Studios’ Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the man who had rejected him.

Sheesh, Nic Cage? Really? Nice cast otherwise.

[Advocate]

ughhh ... Nic Cage? Terrible.

[Dolemite]

Astro Boy has no nipples.

[YellerDog]

He does have a machine gun butt, though.

[Advocate]

btw ... I just noticed the director.

Flushed away? That POS movie? Good lord.

Fuck this.

[Dolemite]

He does have a machine gun butt, though.

So do I after too many tacos.

[Advocate]

He does have a machine gun butt, though.

So do I after too many tacos.

This made me laugh and throw up at the same time. Good work ......






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[Nash]

Astro Boy has no nipples.

We now know which Batman movie is Dole's favorite.

[YellerDog]

So do I after too many tacos.

[Jetman]

Nic Cage? Unless he has previously unforeseen acting versatility in raising the octave of his voice to mimic a boy then I dont see how this choice is a good one...