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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney movie hitting Japan in 2012

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 27th 2011 9:10AM

Capcom has officially announced that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will head to the cineplexes of Japan in Spring 2012. Wright will be played by Hiroki Narimiya (not ringing any bells?), while antagonistic attorney Miles Edgeworth will be played by Takumi Saito. Phoenix's charmingly naive assistant, Maya Fey, will be channeled by Mirei Kiritani.

Of course, you'll probably recognize the director (as reported earlier): Takashi Miike of Audition, Crows Zero and -- most recently -- Thirteen Assassins.

If you find the idea of a live-action, comedic courtroom adventure odd, you must not have been around for the Phoenix Wright musical a couple years back.

[Thanks, Matthew]

Source: Capcom Unity

Tags: Capcom, ds, hiroki-narimiya, mirei-kiritani, movie, nintendo, Phoenix-Wright, Phoenix-Wright-Ace-Attorney, takashi-miike, takumi-saito

Reader Comments (45)

he looks like a japanese porn star

@shabby329

You would know

@TraceurRyuk Part III

rawr

@shabby329 IMDB says he posed nude for some magazine. So looks can be completely accurate.

@shabby329

And that´s what you get when you try to make a human into an anime/manga character........

I would see this in 3D for the speech bubbles.

Takashi Miike has got to have the most diverse filmography for any director in the history of film making.

Finally! Let's just hope it doesn't go balls up like Tekken did...

Do Japanese lawyers look like that? Something tells me that the judge would yell objection to his attire.

...Just why? He looks so.....nevermind.

If that is Phoenix, then who's the judge?

What did they do to his hair? You'd think they would at least try to get the series' most iconic thing, aside from possibly the OBJECTION, right.

@Mehbah Well at least he isn't some typical CW hollywood white guy as the protagonist

@Dance Mofo Well then again it's not bought over here yet. :(

@Mehbah This looks like a head shot, not an on-set photo. Yes, he's wearing a blue jacket, but one should reserve judgment until actual, on-set photos are released.

@Dance Mofo

Um... while I am against whitewashing, isn't Phoenix white?

@Mehbah

That style would be rather tedious, if not impossible, thing to do with someone's hair. It looks like they went for a bit more realistic version, since if you look close its still spiking back, it's just not as pronounced as the drawing because of the angles.

@Bighouse
You mean you thought Phoenix was American rather than Japanese? Well, all credit to the localisers for fooling you that it was set in the US... but with his first name being Ryuuichi in the original version, I rather suspect he's Japanese. (As are, more or less, all the characters.)

I haven't seen any of the original Japanese games but I suspect they're quite a lot different. You could spot some of the bits where an obvious localisation change happened, but overall it was well done.

Ordinarily I do prefer to be treated like an adult (yes I'm capable of understanding that people in Japan eat different types of food or whatever) but in this case the localisation has generally been really good, so credit to them.

He looks a bit more like a host than a lawyer.

@Faceless Troll
A game show host or a host club host?

@gatotsu911 Do a google search on host clubs.

@Faceless Troll
OMG YES

@Faceless Troll
No.

This is not wright! (see what I did there?)

Takashi Miike owns Japanese filmmaking.

And people thought western game to film adaptations were bad...

@BaronVonSachsen Where are you getting that? We know nothing about it apart from the director (who is a well known name internationally) and the cast. You've got no idea if it's good or not, and nobody else does either. It hasn't even been shot.

They should not have gone the live-action route with this. An animated film would have been a much better direction to take.

@Uncle Jesse
They should live action most game movies but they never listen

@QuantumChemist
Animate you mean dummy

@Uncle Jesse
Agreed. Ace Attorney's colorful, over-the-top sensibilities would translate far better to anime than live action. Then again, most Japanese comedies are practically like live-action cartoons to begin with.

@Uncle Jesse

You mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpkDeuueYU8

@Uncle Jesse

Almost forgot, the actual episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_7s3_VDdfk

Phoenix does look a bit... different.
;)

So when do we get the Americanized remake?

@gatotsu911 It got cancelled, just like Uncharted. Seriously though, that'd be amusing if this one got cancelled too.

@gatotsu911

When flying pigs freeze Hell over.

@gatotsu911 Capcom decided that the series isn't profitable enough, so probably never.

In case you hadn't heard that Capcom has "no plans" on releasing the latest game in the series outside of Japan; it launched there in February.

Is he scratching his ass?

Fail.

Heh Ace Attorney got Yankee-fied ... I'll still look this up hopefully he can break out of the Yankee role and do Phoenix some justice

oh yeah pun totally intended

NEEDS MORE OBJECTION.

Is the commenting system borked at the moment, or is it just me?

@Powerlord By borked, I mean it's blocking messages at random for no apparent reason.

Christopher Walken should be the Phoenix Wright.

Why? His hairstyle fits.

Azumi was an effing good movie. If you get a chance, watch it. (and the sequels)

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