Jesus Christ don’t we have enough evidence at this point that replacing beautifully animated works of art with live action is always a bad proposition?

You only need to do this shit when you don’t want to pay a screenwriter or a director to do the designs for an original piece of art. “Oh, everyone liked The Movie: Animated? We can just gut the dialogue, set design, art, framing, story, iconic characters, and soundtrack, then tell people we made it better by using live performers.”

AI strips it down one more level and just changes how the art is rendered. Damn, the problem with Princess Monenoke was THE GRAPHICS WEREN’T GOOD ENOUGH. It’s not even “live action”. It’s just performance tuning.

Miyazaki getting the production crew from Homeward Bound and making a live action live animal film maybe could be fucking awesome. Idfk. But This. Ain’t. It.

I don’t think adaptations are necessarily anti art. There are a myriad of books, films, stage performances, animated shows and animated movies which are adapted from each other which showcase a beautiful story in a variety of forms.

The issue is doing this shit for a cash grab and not actually trying to create a beautiful adaptation of a story.