The live action adaptation of Kiki's Delivery Service is going to be released in 2014! This is the official website:

http://www.majotaku.jp

What are everyone's opinions? Personally I'm rather skeptical about it.

How many Live action movies are there ?, of Ghibli films ?

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This is not actually an adaptation of the Ghibli film. It's an adaptation of the book the Ghibli movie was also based on, which Miyazaki did not follow very faithfully. So the movie may end up being totally different from Miyazaki's version, apart from featuring a witch who runs a delivery service. I really don't know.

May I ask what leads you to be skeptical about it? I don't feel like I know enough about the project to form an opinion.

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Ahh, well still would be interesting to see this. Isn't there a live action version of Grave Of The Fireflies ?

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Yeah, I think there is a live-action GotF. Like Kiki's Delivery Service, it was originally based on a book. Are there other Ghibli films that have been based on books that also had other adaptations? Nothing else springs to mind, but these things can sometimes be pretty obscure...

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I'm guessing The Borrowers has several! And Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books must have been adapted before. Other than that, can't think of any. I think there was an attempt to adapt Howl's into a miniseries or something that never got off the ground.

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Oh yeah, I didn't even think of those, even though I knew they already had other adaptations! Oops

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Originally posted by Orphic Okapi
I'm guessing The Borrowers has several! And Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books must have been adapted before. Other than that, can't think of any. I think there was an attempt to adapt Howl's into a miniseries or something that never got off the ground.

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There is another Earthsea adaptation - a TV series. The author of the books was disappointed by the Ghibli version but she considered it better than the previous adaptation which was apparently terrible.

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Orphic, I guess I'm a bit skeptical because I feel like they're trying to make it an adaptation of the Ghibli animation rather than the book, or at least that's the impression I got from what I've read of it, and seen in the trailers.

I am actually looking forward to seeing it in a way, I just know that adaptations of adaptations are often a bit crappy (like 'The Amazing Spiderman', in my opinion, much preferred the original with Toby Maguire)