Has anyone seen the trailer for the new movie Lucy?
Looks to me like Hollywood is going to anime for its ideas again, this time from Elfen Lied.
Obviously there are some superficial changes (here her powers come from drugs, not from a mutation), but in the trailers the say things like "She's the next step of human evolution. I don't know if humanity is ready for her." The last shot of the trailer I saw shows her fighting a bunch of armed guards with her powers, very similar to the opening sequence of Elfen Lied (sadly, though, Scarlett Johansson does not appear to be nude in this scene
). And they didn't even bother to change her name.
I almost have enough for a Cracked article called something like "5 Hollywood Films You Didn't Know Were Based on Classic Anime"
Kimba the White Lion - The Lion King
Perfect Blue - Black Swan (Arronofsky also lifts a scene from Perfect Blue in Requiem for a Dream)
Paprika - Inception (maybe? Pretty tenuous connection, superficial. Better options hopefully surface)
And now this.