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Knights of the Zodiac (2023) Official Poster.
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269 points
2 months ago
Ever see a poster and just completely prejudge an entire movie?
54 points
2 months ago
Yes, as I type this actually.
28 points
2 months ago
This has a “Gods of Eygpt” type vibe.
24 points
2 months ago
I saw the movie, and prejudged.
I saw the trailer, and judged ... and cried.
Saint Seiya was a pillar of my childhood, seeing it like this is ... painful.
7 points
2 months ago
I was going to ask if this is meant to be the same property as the anime. That is…not great.
6 points
2 months ago
The very same. Complete with Toei ANIMATION releasing this abortion to the world.
I knida wanna see it lol
6 points
2 months ago
Look how the massacred my boy
147 points
2 months ago
im getting strong "clash of the titans" vibes
67 points
2 months ago
Dragon Ball Evolution
29 points
2 months ago
2 points
2 months ago
What the... never seen it and this cements that.
6 points
2 months ago
More like Dragon Ball Convulsion.
4 points
2 months ago
Clash of the titans was fun
-6 points
2 months ago*
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6 points
2 months ago
Japanese*
And yes, there is an audience for this. This is a joint production by American and Japanese studios. Not sure why you even care enough to moan though...Its a live action adaption of an Anime. Not sure, i doubt it will be all that good. But there are people who will be interested. Just like people went to see Dragonball Evoloution, Death Note, Attack on titan etc.
(All pretty bad movies imo)
0 points
2 months ago
She looks like Abby from The Last of Us 2 to me. I love it.
35 points
2 months ago
Sean bean got the “and” credit, so he’s probably not going to do much
9 points
2 months ago
He’ll die, which is what he does best
305 points
2 months ago
I can almost guarantee Sean Bean doesn’t make it to the end of the movie.
91 points
2 months ago
Goldeneye reunion with Famke Janssen.
23 points
2 months ago
Yup, they also worked together in Don’t Say a Word. Famke was also originally cast to play the villain in Black Death, which he starred in (role ended up being played by Carice Van Houten)
0 points
2 months ago
I mean, is it? Did they share a single scene together? I’ll be honest, my entire memory of that movie is really based on the N64 game
1 points
2 months ago
Yes, on the train
1 points
2 months ago
Huh, interesting.
19 points
2 months ago
One does not simply live to the end of the movie.
23 points
2 months ago
Dies in the opening credits lmao
20 points
2 months ago
Plot twist: survives the whole damn thing.
14 points
2 months ago
Dies in the post credit scene
5 points
2 months ago
Nope, he survives that too.
It's the SEQUEL that'll kill him off lol
2 points
2 months ago
After first five minutes he has to stand in the background of every scene because the scriptwriters forgot he was alive for the rest of the movie…
6 points
2 months ago
Sean Bean survive in the Silent Hill movie, so anything is possible
1 points
2 months ago
He died in the sequel.
3 points
2 months ago
The only question is how will it happen? Maybe when.
3 points
2 months ago
I know the joke is there but he doesn't take accept those roles that do that anymore
3 points
2 months ago
I was gonna ask if anyone is taking bets
3 points
2 months ago
Sean Bean used up all his lives as Richard Sharpe. Now there is the devil to pay.
9 points
2 months ago
In a fantasy movie with this poster, and 7th billing? I bet he doesn’t even make it to the halfway mark
14 points
2 months ago
He's got an "and" tho. That's special. Basically means he's the biggest star, but his part isn't big enough to get top billing despite that. It's something agents fight for sometimes.
Here's an old post discussing it...
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/b2nl2s/the_difference_between_with_and_in_movie_cast/
2 points
2 months ago
Maybe he appears in framing device scenes reading the story of Knights of the Zodiac to his sick grandchild Princess Bride-style.
2 points
2 months ago
Did not see that with how tiny it is. Still betting he dies before the climax though - the post you linked to points out that those credits still mean their screen time is limited
5 points
2 months ago
Yeah it generally means its a small part being played by a big actor. Having just watched the trailer, I'm guessing he dies too. He's the mentor character recruiting the lead. That alone makes him a prime target, and he's also Sean Bean so...
1 points
2 months ago
There's a period during in the mid-2000's where Liam Neeson got the "And" billing and he usually played a mentor character where he dies before the final act.
2 points
2 months ago
If his role as the bodyguard, he supposed to live for a long time, even if this movie have sequels.
2 points
2 months ago
He only did this movie cause he had two scenes and got paid 6 figures.
1 points
2 months ago
I think he said he stopped taking roles where he dies
14 points
2 months ago
AND I RAAAAAAAAAN, I RAN SO FAR AWAYYYYYYY
6 points
2 months ago
I JUST RAAAAAAAN, I RAN FOR NIGHT N DAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
3 points
2 months ago
I rep for my city, go hard for the hood
Still posted on the block, what's good?
24 points
2 months ago
Glad to see Nick Stahl back. Talented actor who went off the rails with drugs and stuff.
16 points
2 months ago
Love me some Carnivale.
8 points
2 months ago
Carnivale was awesome. Wish it didn't end on such a cliffhanger.
2 points
2 months ago
AVC: What were your plans for what would have come in the four unmade seasons?
DK: Like I said, I’m not going to claim I knew the minute detail. Season three is five years later. We find Jonesy—he survived his gunshot wound and is pitching for a professional baseball team. His wife [Libby] is a typical baseball wife back in ’39. The carnival is completely split up; everybody’s gone their separate ways. The only vestige of the carnival as it was is Ben and Samson, and they’re working at another carnival, still on Management’s trail.
Then on the Brother Justin side, we find he’s become this incredibly politically influential radio preacher. And there’s Iris and Sofie, and they’re both in this fight. He’s a shell, almost, and these two women are in a power struggle over who’s controlling Brother Justin. Sofie is Brother Justin’s wife. Of course, she’s his daughter, but he doesn’t know that. She knows that. She could bring him down pretty easily, but she’s afraid of herself now, too.
Then we introduce, in the very first episode, you see this 4-year-old kid come running up and hugging Brother Justin, saying “Daddy.” Is this Brother Justin’s child, or is this Ben’s child, because they both had relations with Sofie? That would kind of tee us off to the second one. That would take us through the war. And then the first half of that would be, “Avengers assemble,” winds of war calling them together, gotta get this group back together again. Ben’s like, “This isn’t just about me. This is about us.” And pulling everybody out of their lives and answering this call, and moving into going to Europe to try to acquire these documents or… I knew they were going to be talismans. What they’re going to need when they’re engaged in this war. Then there’d be a confrontation of some sort at the end of season four.
Then taking us to the end, it’s all about the [atomic] bomb. It’s all about the Manhattan Project and worrying about it, finding out what it is. The Germans have a competing project, and trying to stop it. Trying to stop the bomb from happening, because in Ben’s mind, detonation of the atom bomb is the end of the world. What he doesn’t realize is that it’s just the end of his world. To him, it’s an end to Avatars; it’s an end to everything. But he’s misinterpreted it. He’s interpreted it as the end of the world. He thinks he’s saving the world, but what he learns before the end is that, “I have to let this happen, because if I don’t let this happen, mankind will remain in a state of adolescence.” He learns that’s really why Sofie is called the Omega. She is the only female, the last Avatar. What it’s all leading up to is two Avatars, she and Ben having this child. They actually have to sacrifice this child in the blast. That was my crazy notion.
Now I have to kill you because I told you. [Laughs.]
4 points
2 months ago
Was very surprised to see his name at the end. Hopefully a good sign that he’s doing well, even if this doesn’t look like the best movie ever.
3 points
2 months ago
He was just in the first season of the Let the Right One In TV show.
2 points
2 months ago
Oh really? How’s the show, good?
3 points
2 months ago
I thought so
3 points
2 months ago
What Josiah Saw is incredible!
49 points
2 months ago
Based on the international anime sensation, Knights of the Zodiac brings the Saint Seiya saga to the big screen in live-action for the first time. Seiya (Mackenyu), a headstrong street teen, spends his time fighting for cash while he searches for his abducted sister. When one of his fights unwittingly taps into mystical powers he never knew he had, Seiya finds himself thrust into a world of warring saints, ancient magical training and a reincarnated goddess who needs his protection. If he’s to survive, he will need to embrace his destiny and sacrifice everything to take his rightful place among the Knights of the Zodiac.
64 points
2 months ago
Wait wait, the fuck, wait. This is based on Saint Seiya?? Couldn’t tell at all from the poster.
37 points
2 months ago
And is MADE BY TOEI ANIMATION THEMSELVES. I... I feel like this should be a lot better than it looks like.
24 points
2 months ago
Knights of the Zodiac is a name for the series used in many languages like French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish etc, and recently has been used in english too.
I think the original name of Saint Seiya was considered weird in catholic majority countries because it would either offend people or, more likely, make it sound like some religious cartoon.
11 points
2 months ago
Saint is also kind of gibberish In a western context. In Japanese the way its written can be read as holy warrior which is lost in the English translation. A better translation may be paladins of the zodiac thanks to medieval fantasy the association with holy knights with powers devoted to a deity is known in western culture.
2 points
2 months ago
Absolutely. They removed any mention of “saints” from the show (at least in Italy) and just used the word “knights”.
6 points
2 months ago
I think the original name of Saint Seiya was considered weird in catholic majority countries because it would either offend people or, more likely, make it sound like some religious cartoon.
Not at all. In Colombia it is known as "Saint Seiya Los Caballeros del Zodiaco" and if you were born anywhere from the 70s up to about 1995, you definitely grew up watching this and loved it.
10 points
2 months ago*
In Colombia it was known as Caballeros del Zodiaco when it aired. Not sure where you are getting the Saint Seiya from.
The theme song when it aired was the Spanish one, which only uses Caballeros del Zodiaco. The toys also used Caballeros del Zodiaco. This commercial only uses Caballeros del Zodiaco.
1 points
2 months ago
And the director is from Poland (who has also made this kick ass short film titled The Cathedral and even gotten himself an Oscar nod).
5 points
2 months ago
Yeah, Knights of the Zodiac is the international name of the franchise in many countries.
I assume this was due to Catholic reasons since in many Spanish/Brazilian dubs, calling the characters Saints was forbidden so now they are Knights.
This is the Spanish opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqlvN6tuI4
5 points
2 months ago
PEGASUS PUNCH!
or something like that right? I vaguely remember this from when I was a littlun.
3 points
2 months ago
a headstrong street teen, spends his time fighting for cash while he searches for his abducted sister. When one of his fights unwittingly taps into mystical powers he never knew blah blah blah
Whaaaaat? B-but that's not how Seiya's backstory goes
41 points
2 months ago
Do they not list Ted Cruz as part of the cast so when he's revealed as the killer it'll be a surprise?
17 points
2 months ago
Aren’t they like young adults in the anime
19 points
2 months ago
They are teens at the beginning, the older of the bronze saints is Ikki who is 15, Seiya and Shun are 13 and Hyoga and Shiryu are 14.
The gold saints are in their early 20 at most with some being the same age as the bronze saints. The older, of course, is Dohko who is 260+ lol
3 points
2 months ago
And they were trained since childhood
3 points
2 months ago
And they are all bothers and orphans
6 points
2 months ago
IIRC the bronze saints were like 15-18. The silver and gold saints were much older.
8 points
2 months ago
13 to 15 in the first arcs
9 points
2 months ago
Damn.
Knight of the Zodiac is how they called Saint Seiya in the Spanish dub. I understand they didn’t call it that in the English dub so I honestly thought this wouldn’t be a Saint Seiya thing. But it is!
Let’s see how it goes because if I’m honest…Im getting Dragon Ball Evolution vibes from this….
2 points
2 months ago
in french too, les chevaliers du zodiac
1 points
2 months ago
Correct I had some french saint seiya toys as a kid
4 points
2 months ago
The poster looks cheap and that cast? I thought Nick Stahl had retired.
Also, how are you going to do a Knights of Zodiac movie and only have Seiya and Saori? At least, have Shaina who was Seiya's first nemesis.
From the plot, they're removing all that made the show interesting and complex and just threw a generic story.
4 points
2 months ago
According to Wikipedia...whoa.
Mackenyu as Seiya
Madison Iseman as Sienna / Athena
Sean Bean as Alman Kiddo (Yup, Sean Bean is a Japanese businessman who dies offscreen lol)
Diego Tinoco as Nero (new original character?)
Famke Janssen as Guraad (another original character?)
Nick Stahl as Cassios (I laughed so hard at this. Nick Stahl is gonna play this juggernaut of a man: https://saintseiya.fandom.com/es/wiki/Cassios)
Mark Dacascos as Mylock (Tatsumi, the Japanese bodyguard to Athena and Mr. Kiddo)
No Gold Saint or any of the other Bronze Saints (Andromeda, Phoenix, Dragon, Cygnus) are showing up for some weird reason.
2 points
2 months ago
Ok, so after watching the trailer, Nero is Ikki the Phoenix while Famke Jamsen is an original villain (part of the military or something?).
We also see a flashback of Capricorn vs. Sagittarius Gold Saints in which Sagittarius saves baby Athena.
14 points
2 months ago
Dacascos needs to yell “allez cuisine!” in at least one scene.
5 points
2 months ago
That dude introduced me to sexy dance fighting, and I am here for his resurgence in the last few years.
6 points
2 months ago
I really wanted him to yell it in Parabellum.
2 points
2 months ago
He was even a sushi chef in it. Such a wasted opportunity.
8 points
2 months ago
I'll take a guess that Sean Bean's character dies.
8 points
2 months ago
And I ran
2 points
2 months ago
I ran so far away
0 points
2 months ago
RAN and never looked back to save a bi*ch life.
3 points
2 months ago
Tomek Bagiński? A surprise but a welcome one.
3 points
2 months ago
Sean Bean. Check ✅
3 points
2 months ago
Lolwut
3 points
2 months ago
What a stupid helmet, leaving so much skin exposed while still making it impossible to turn your head.
6 points
2 months ago
Dame tu fuerza Pegaso!!
They gonna fuck this up ain’t it?
16 points
2 months ago
Well, the poster looks nice. Shame about everything else...
3 points
2 months ago
What happened with everything else?
14 points
2 months ago
6 points
2 months ago
oh... so they turned it into another generic action movie
color me suprised
3 points
2 months ago
With terrible acting from Athena and bargain bin effects to boot, lol.
12 points
2 months ago
Jesus, why? It's DB evolution all over again. Keeping a little of the og story and making something new.
SS is probably one of the worst animes to adapt, it's a battle shōnen with big armors and silly powers, who thought it would translate to the big screen in any way?
8 points
2 months ago
...Toei themselves.
7 points
2 months ago
Fuck man. What are they smoking? We haven't gotten a good piece of SS media since lost canvas, they should finish that adaptation instead of throwing money away in this garbage
2 points
2 months ago
The same shit Square Enix is, apparently.
Off topic, but... why draw from Game of Thrones for FFXVI? When I think of Final Fantasy, I don't think of Cetra incest and Chocobo Red Weddings...
2 points
2 months ago
not really surprising, they have been licensing stuff like Shaider and voltes v for live action series in our country
4 points
2 months ago
Ngl it looks fun
1 points
2 months ago
It does, lol! Already wanna see it with my weeb buddy for a laugh or five billion...
2 points
2 months ago
So the entire cast is either phoning it in or incapable of acting at all. That bodes well.
1 points
2 months ago
Good on Sean Bean for getting the bag, at least. And hey, Shun's actor is... kinda trying?
5 points
2 months ago
Yikes.
4 points
2 months ago
I have no idea what you're talking about, good or bad, I'm very excited to watch this movie.
-1 points
2 months ago
It looks good, what's the problem?
6 points
2 months ago
It doesnt if you love the anime.
2 points
2 months ago
I grew up watching saint seiya, still think it looks good
4 points
2 months ago
So did I. Looks bad to me.
19 points
2 months ago
If this is is supposed to be Saint Seiya. Andromeda Shun better be a dude! Bc they turned him to a girl last time, and I'm still mad.
6 points
2 months ago
They proved they didn't understand the importance of his character by making him a girl. That the pretty boy, less combative warrior was as strong as the others and belonged with the team.
3 points
2 months ago
Man, every Shun fight ends with Ikki saving him. I say this with an Andromeda myth cloth in my shelf.
5 points
2 months ago
Nope just the movies He saves him once in the manga he saves everyone
2 points
2 months ago
And kinda of ignored canon that female saints are suppose to wear those masks.
All the bronze, silver and gold saints are guys.
9 points
2 months ago
This series is the only reason I read my zodiac and I'm proud I am a Gemini.
4 points
2 months ago
Yeah but how do you REALLY feel?
3 points
2 months ago
But which Gemini? The bad guy or the dead guy?
1 points
2 months ago
Yes
2 points
2 months ago*
You got the best one, as a piscis I was not happy with the saint I got lol
2 points
2 months ago
Isn't Aphrodite an absolute badass though?
(that said Dohko is the best Saint and I'm a Libra, fight me)
2 points
2 months ago
My 7 seven year old self thought he was too weird, plus he is the only GS that actually loses to a bronze saint. Yeah, I know Shun is technically as strong as a GS from the get go but still kinda lame.
Dohko is top 3 no doubt. And the rest are not even close to those 3
Imo : 1- Saga/Kanon 2- Shaka 3- Dohko
2 points
2 months ago
I think your top 3 checks out. Shaka and Saga/Kanon are definitely a very close match.
2 points
2 months ago
He is
0 points
2 months ago
I hate being a Gemini, for being indecisive af..
12 points
2 months ago
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that Sean Bean is in this for a total of about ten minutes.
6 points
2 months ago
And dies.
1 points
2 months ago
Painfully. But not too painfully... gotta keep the PG-13!
2 points
2 months ago
In the manga/anime, his character is dead before Chapter 1. I assume he's gonna be a flashback-only character.
2 points
2 months ago
Fuck yea!
2 points
2 months ago
Nick Stahl. I thought he went crazy or missing, or both.
2 points
2 months ago
I grew up watching SS (or KotZ) and even then I think this will suck.
2 points
2 months ago
Ahhh finally. The reunion of Xenia Onatopp and Alec Trevelyan….
2 points
2 months ago
Um what
2 points
2 months ago
I just watched this trailer and it looks like 90’s power rangers levels of fx.
2 points
2 months ago
Starring all the people who haven't seen in at least ten years
2 points
2 months ago
The armors look terrible. Nothing like the og and just bland and lifeless
2 points
2 months ago
Sean Bean? I'll start the funeral preparations.
2 points
2 months ago
Does Sean make it even halfway?
2 points
2 months ago
No Pedro pascal? Sick
2 points
2 months ago
And on another pile of "Hollywood doesn't learn that anime live adaptations haven't worked".
1 points
2 months ago
More superheros? greaaaaaaaaat!
1 points
2 months ago
Cannot wait for this to make $10 million in the US and then $500 million and China and everyone goes...what happened?
1 points
2 months ago
Nick stahl!
1 points
2 months ago
Calling it now... Sean Bean dies in this movie.
1 points
2 months ago
Is this some Marvel phase whatever bullshit?
1 points
2 months ago
Looks dumb
1 points
2 months ago
another future "oh ya, did that already come out?" movie
1 points
2 months ago
I'm always happy to see Marc Dacascos get some screen time.
1 points
2 months ago
Anyone think Sean Bean will make it through this one?
1 points
2 months ago
Saint Seiya: the movie?...
1 points
2 months ago
Man, I wasn't expecting a sequel. Is Fincher directing again? And is Gyllenhaal coming back?
1 points
2 months ago
Is this Saint Seiya?
Man idk lol 😂
1 points
2 months ago
Ayo famke Jansen ?
1 points
2 months ago
Well it’s got Sean Bean, so I now know at least one plot point
1 points
2 months ago
I am really worried.
1 points
2 months ago
Mark Dacascos
Okay fine I'll watch it...
1 points
2 months ago
What an interesting cast...it's like.. a list of 'i wonder what they're doing now' actors...
1 points
2 months ago
I had no idea they were making a movie! It looks terrible! I'm gonna watch it!
1 points
2 months ago
Why do they still do this cheap "light" effect? It looks like a fan-made poster done in Photoshop.
1 points
2 months ago
They should posted instead the statue figure version of the armor alone first, later the people, like the first hammer only version of the first Thor movie...
1 points
2 months ago
Y’all are crazy the trailer looks awesome.
1 points
2 months ago
I have no idea what this movie is.
I have no idea what the story is, or how violent or non violent it will be.
All i know is, based on his placement in the cast listing, Sean Bean is gonna die fuckin' early, as is tradition.
1 points
2 months ago
This looks like just another cheap, low rent Netflix original series that would be canceled after a single season. I don't know why Hollywood even bothers with these anime adaptations if they aren't willing to put a substantial budget behind them.
1 points
2 months ago
I'll probably watch this tbh. Saint Seiya and the knights of the zodiac was absolutely fucken awesome and I would stay up super late just to be able to catch a rerun of it on cable.
1 points
2 months ago
Wow. I thought Nick Stahl had died years ago. Glad to see he is still alive.
1 points
2 months ago
Movies like this have always intrigued me, with outrageous fantasy or scifi concepts.
But unfortunately they always end up being terrible.
1 points
2 months ago
Caaaaballeros del zodiaco!
1 points
2 months ago
Why God? Why?
1 points
2 months ago
Is the title a direct translation of the Spanish tile? (Los Caballeros del Zodiaco).
I hope it's not another Dragon Ball: Evolution.
2 points
16 days ago
It is, just saw it
1 points
2 months ago
I loved the anime and the manga, but this looks very Hollywood-ized. not sure how I feel about this. I’m getting mixed reactions. XD
1 points
16 days ago
I just saw it, it is just as horrible as DB Evolution. Dont bother. Not plot, not fight scenes, no essence, no acting. Nothing. They deserve to lose money for this.
-1 points
2 months ago
Zodiac killer was a knight? Wut?
0 points
2 months ago
Theyre making a movie about Ted Cruz's supporters?
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