{"id":980504,"date":"2025-10-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980504"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:38:43","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-creator-live-action-movie-would-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/kpop-demon-hunters-creator-live-action-movie-would-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters Creator Says a Live-Action Movie &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t Work&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/kpop-demon-hunters-not-feel-like-netflix-movie-makes-it-great\/\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a><\/em> exploded onto Netflix in June and became a surprise hit, people began to wonder if there would be an inevitable live-action version. It\u2019s not exactly a wild notion, as many successful animated films eventually get the live-action treatment these days. However, one of the film\u2019s creators has expressed some serious reservations about going there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many elements of the tone and the comedy that are so suited for animation,\u201d creator and co-director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8rvzmyyzmpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maggie Kang told the BBC<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to imagine these characters in a live-action world. It would feel too grounded. So totally it wouldn\u2019t work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Co-director Chris Appelhans added, &#8220;One of the great things about animation is that you make these composites of impossibly great attributes. Rumi can be this goofy comedian and then singing and doing a spinning back-kick a second later and then freefalling through the sky. The joy of animation is how far you can push and elevate what&#8217;s possible. I remember they adapted a lot of different animes and oftentimes, it just feels a little stilted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, creators sometimes don\u2019t get a say in what studios want to do with an IP. The temptation to expand the <em>KPop Demon Hunters <\/em>world might be greater than what Kang and Applehand personally want for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/kpop-demon-hunters-soundtrack-songs-ranked-golden\/\">female KPop trio<\/a>. It\u2019s worth noting that the movie has already succeeded beyond Netflix\u2019s dreams by becoming the first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netflix<\/a> film to top the U.S. box office. And that was just a sing-along version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve certainly seen some resistance to churning out live-action remakes in the past. Disney doesn\u2019t seem swayed by it just yet, with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/disney-live-action-remakes-ranked-from-the-little-mermaid-to-lion-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em>, <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>, and <em>Snow White<\/em><\/a> all getting big releases in the last few years. Arguably, there have also been good live-action turns from some of our animated faves, though they tend to lean toward more cartoonish fun, like <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em>, <em>George of the Jungle<\/em>, and <em>Speed Racer<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kang\u2019s explicit \u201cwouldn\u2019t work for me\u201d stance doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a live-action version will never happen. 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