China gets "Prince of Tennis" drama

[monta]

Thu, August 16, 2007 (6:38pm EDT)
Takeshi Konomi's popular "Prince of Tennis" manga is being adapted as a live-action series in China. Filming begins in October, with television broadcasts projected to begin in June, just before the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Source: Nikkan Sports | tokyograph.com

[saikira]

kewl, but wonderin who's the cast!!

[chiongster]

Eh. China is competing with Taiwan?? ...to adapt live action of manga, haha at last they realised Journey to west, romance of 3 kingdoms and "Loius chia" is so out-dated. Is good to have foreign sources of idea for tv series though.

[cynnielee]

eh~~?? china gets the prince of tennis drama? O_O;;

thats kinda strange to me because most manga drama remakes are done by taiwan... =X *hides*

[bkitten]

..... Prince of Tennis in China? No offense, but most of their doramas suck. x.x

[sohyx1]

I think China are good in making "artistic films" but for a remake of a wonderful anime, I think Taiwan would be better, in terms of the actors and actresses.

[rush225]

Eh. China is competing with Taiwan?? ...to adapt live action of manga, haha at last they realised Journey to west, romance of 3 kingdoms and "Loius chia" is so out-dated. Is good to have foreign sources of idea for tv series though.

I agree with you there, how many times have we seen a "Wong Fei Hung" remake over the past years and the same ancient China plotline? Sure having outside sources as an idea is cool but I'm finding the quality of China/Hong Kong media is on a downward spiral to doom

[nurul_hussin]

Another live action??? The POT Japanese live action movie used too many CGI...I wonder how the drama will come out...No offense but most live actions turn me off!!

[superdustbunny]

Good God...another live action PoT. I hope they do a better job than Japan did, and that the people they choose to play the characters actually look somewhat like.

[Calltometal]

I never saw the Japanese version and from how horrible I hear it is I don't think I will. I'll probably check out the Chinese version though, I'd like to check it out, I love the PoT manga.

[0hikari0]

I used to watch J movie live action I think it's OK. Hope cast will be good.

[DSSharingan]

I'm terrible afraid this is going to be really cheesy, with even worse special effects. I'll watch the first 3 episodes and see if i like.

[winkie]

godd.. they failed making a great manga come alive..
seen sum eps n i think it very bad xT
nothing compared to d manga/anime...