The Knights of the Zodiac, Hollywood version, is coming soon to the big screen. But a US version of the CdZ already existed and has just been unearthed…
If you’re a fan of Seiya and his brothers in armor, you already know, of course, that a Hollywood adaptation of Knights of the Zodiac coming soon to the big screen. The French release date is set for May 24, 2023 and for the moment, despite a prestigious cast, we can’t say that the hype is there…
The Knights in Hollywood
On the contrary, it is rather a question of Dragonball Evolution when is this next movie Saint Seiya is mentioned on social networks, which obviously is not a very good sign. And the last images unveiled of this next film Saint Seiya not reassuring at all.
Saint Seiya with burger sauce
But did you know that before this Hollywood production, the lovers and lovers of the Bronze Knights escaped such a dramatic adaptation that discovering it today is hilarious? If this is less the case today (although…), the United States still have this annoying tendency to want to adapt to their own culture, and especially their own market, works from elsewhere… Among the funny anecdotes of the video game, we know for example that one of the first recommendations concerning the arrival of Pokémon on the American territory was to make them more aggressive, because much too cute for the majority, they did not stick to the American taste… that of violence rather than cuteness therefore. Fortunately, Nintendo has not modified its pocket monsters and the rest of the story you know.
Guardians of the Cosmos !
But back to Saint Seiya therefore, and to this exhumation of Guardians of the Cosmos, as this pure Yankee 80’s cartoon was to be called. In this US version, Zack (Seiya / Pegasus), Clint (Shiryu / Dragon), Jake (Hyoga / Swan) Max (Shun / Andromeda) and Quinn (Ikki / Phoenix), five karateka in armor must protect Princess Nova and face the terrible Apollo in the streets of Los Angeles… Here is the first episode of this animated series which will never see the light of day.
Not bad is not it ? Does the movie live Saint Seiya to come does not seem to gain in quality all of a sudden? On the side of the adaptations that don’t smell very good, it doesn’t seem great on the side of the One Piece live from Netflix while Flounder from The little Mermaid seems to have taken quite a beating in its live version…
