Je n’ai plus trop le pitch en tête et pourtant Sévéon en parlait bien dans son bouquin, je m’en rappelle.
Après une brêve recherche je suis tombé sur le forum d’une bande de fondus de Lupin The Third :
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Et dans mon souvenir ça concorde bien avec le pitch rapporté par Sévéon (une nouvelle Tour de Babel au milieu de Tokyo), ça m’a fait tilt. Plus de détails :
[quote]Short story:
Producers wanted Miyazaki for Lupin Movie 3 after he’d been successful with “Nausicaa.” Miyazaki turned it down but recommended his peer, Mamoru Oshii, who had directed action-comedies like Urusei Yatsura and Patlabor. Oshii was offered the job, but he didn’t really feel like doing a traditional action-comedy anymore, and really wanted to spread his wings with the project, hence all the weirdness you’re seeing here. The producers were turned off (as expected), and everyone involved kind of parted ways… But the producers still wanted a film to put out, so they had the 3rd series writers cobble together a script for “Golden Legend of Babylon,” which might explain why the movie feels like it “wasn’t done cooking.”
Edit: As for the plot, “Rumor holds that the original concept called for an insane architect to build a Tower of Babel in the heart of Tokyo, and later leap–presumably to his death–from its peak. Lupin’s target in the film was to be the fossil of an angel. The theme of the film was to be, not unlike Oshii’s “Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer,” that everything was an illusion, including Lupin himself.” [/quote]
Sacrément alléchant, n’est-il pas ?
Il y a des projets avortés qui donnent envie de s’ouvrir les veines de frustration…
A noter que certaines idées relevées ici ont été recyclées par Oshii, comme le saut depuis une tour qui ouvre un “Pat Labor”. D’ailleurs, je me demande si le mec ne fait pas une erreur dans son post : le projet “Lupin III” aurait été antérieur au premier “Pat Labor”, il me semble…
